SKIING/SNOWBOARDING

Aside from powder skiing, most backcountry skiers can agree that there’s no surface more fun to ski than creamy spring corn. For many skiers, especially those who live in mountain ranges with continental snowpacks like the Rockies, spring is the time to get after big objectives. Once melt-freeze cycles have kicked off, persistent weak layers

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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. In 2016, Swiss pro skier Nico Vuignier invented a novel way to capture himself skiing that was inspired by the cinematic

One of the many reasons Alta is so beloved by its loyal constituents–Altaholics, if you will—is that it’s still independently owned by its founding families who strive to keep the experience authentic (see: not a human gauntlet). It’s also one of the only resorts in the U.S. that offers up a European-tinged ski experience, complete

A gathering at Sugarbush in Vermont. On the East Coast, as a rule, it is unheard of to have three days of unadulterated sunny weather, skies devoid of clouds and dilute in bright blue (okay, there were some clouds the last day, but it was warm and slushy). That kind of luck in weather is

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Like the Road Rules of snowboarding (but without the drama, subbing in high levels of stoke and snowboarding, instead), Zeb Powell, Maggie Leon, and Jesse Augustinus jumped in the RV with Red Bull once again this March for a springtime tour of the East Coast from Pennsylvania to Maine. They were joined by NC ripper

Rescue crews in Colorado have been working overtime this week after a spate of avalanches. Officials responded to six human-triggered slides that occurred between Saturday, March 19, and Wednesday, March 23. Miraculously, there were no deaths or major injuries reported with the incidents. Over the weekend, the Summit County Rescue Group responded to four human-triggered avalanches in

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The season has come to an end at our beloved nucleus of rail riding, the place where legends are birthed, Trollhaugen. This winter at Troll was filled with a heavy line up of events (Take the Rake, Lord of the Ropes, CORE Nation, Methodology, the list goes on) and in between the cultural and community

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Last spring, Soy Sauce Nation, a community catalyzed by Nirvana Ortanez and Andrew “AK” Kelly, brought together API snowboarders from all over the world at Mt. Hood for a multi-day boarding gathering. April 6-7, 2022, Nirvana, AK, and Max Tokunaga are building on the first event with the inaugural SSN Stir-Fry at Woodward Tahoe at

Here’s the thing with SKI’s annual Gear Guide: Although we test nearly 200 pairs of skis each year, only a fraction of them appear in our magazine. Why? For one, we’re limited by the space we have available in our print pages, which means we’re forced to select only the cream of the crop to

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. I was 12 when I tried my first form of winter sport: snowshoeing with my eighth grade class in Yosemite. I

It’s hard to stay hydrated while backcountry skiing. Cold temps always fool me into thinking I’m not thirsty while I’m out on the skin track, and digging a cold water bottle out of my bag is the last thing I want to do on a windy summit. When fatigue starts to set in, I usually