SKIING/SNOWBOARDING

After designing some 50 ski models for Line over his 22-year run as a sponsored athlete, Eric Pollard had an epiphany: The world didn’t need any more skis. “There are a lot of great options out there already,” he explains. Pollard himself helped launch many of them. As a collaborative designer for Line, he pioneered

The perfect blend of stability and playfulness. When you’ve been riding as long as I have (not trying to date myself here), you become accustomed to certain things. We know what resorts we like riding best, we know the crew we like to shred with, we know riding powder is easier on the knees than

Celebrating a decade long collab between Breck Brew and Never Summer! Snow is starting to fall and Fall is starting to end. Last night in Denver, CO, Breckenridge Brewery and Never Summer kicked off the soon to be season with an Opening Day party at Blake Street Tavern downtown and launched their Funslinger Lager onto

Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+ Sign up for Outside+ today. If you’ve seen Teton Gravity Research’s newest ski flick “Magic Hour,” then you won’t argue with us when we say that

Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+ Sign up for Outside+ today. Arapahoe Basin announced today that its first lift of the season will start spinning on Sunday, Oct. 23. The mountain ops

Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+ Sign up for Outside+ today. Committing to a ski vacation is a big decision, especially when you’re trying to accommodate people of different abilities levels and

Last March, the Quiksilver team went north to British Columbia for a snowboarding and surfing trip for the books. Their destination was Vancouver Island, a place known for its surfing, though less so for its access to snow-filled steeps. Travis Rice, Austen Sweetin, Red Gerard, Bryan Fox, and Quik surfer Mikey Wright found all the

On an early April morning, two hours before the Collins lift starts cranking, one man is standing in the lift life, hood pulled tight over his helmet. It’s shaping up to be a bluebird Utah day and the sun is creeping up over the east edge of Grizzly Gulch, but he’d be here even if

When SKI publishes ski reviews and the annual Gear Guide, we often get a flurry of letters to the editor and social media comments from Eastern skiers who argue that our reviews are only helpful to skiers west of the Rockies. Their claim: The skis we classify as all-mountain or all-mountain wide (skis with 90mm-plus

If you’re looking for a daily driver, the A-6 is it. Goldilocks seemed like a whiny brat, but it’s all about how you look at her situation. Whether it was a hard bed or a soft bed, or porridge too hot or too cold, you gotta give it to her for knowing exactly what she

Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+ Sign up for Outside+ today. Daron Rahlves is skiing royalty. In 2003, Rahlves became the first American to win the Hahnenkamm downhill in Kitzbühel since Buddy

Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+ Sign up for Outside+ today. Pete McAfee is the type of person that redefines what strength looks like. He is a full-time x-ray technician, a father

Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+ Sign up for Outside+ today. When it comes to kitting yourself out for cold-weather sports, there are many big-ticket gear items to consider—puffies, packs, skis, waterproof

Get full access to Outside Learn, our online education hub featuring in-depth fitness, nutrition, and adventure courses and more than 2,000 instructional videos when you sign up for Outside+ Sign up for Outside+ today. There’s a new star of The Fifty Project, and it’s Cody Townsend’s wife. In the latest episode of The Fifty, Elyse

Chandrima Lavoie doesn’t hold back. Plumes of coldsmoke burst out from under her skis in a blinding haze as she charges down Blast, Whitewater Ski Resort’s signature run, right underneath the Summit Chair. Taking flight between moguls and over drops just feels mandatory when you’re on the showboat line and there’s two feet of fresh.

Last March, the crafty and conspiring minds of Rome Snowboards and Snowboy Productions gathered in the high forests of Vermont for a cultivation of carving like never seen before in the Green Mountains–or beyond. Sugarbush Parks was the site of the first-ever Sidehit Seance, a creative, hand-built set up two years in the making that