Deuter Freescape Lite 26 – Excellent Backpack for Day Trips Cori Bucherl When I’ve thought of Deuter in the past, it’s been about their backpacking and mountaineering packs, the ones I used to sell when I worked at REI. I didn’t think about ski packs. But through the Pinnacle Sales’ Kinfolk Ambassador program, I got the chance to try one
Read more
Swix Quantum 4 Ski Pole Kate Agathon Over the years, I have dabbled in classic nordic skiing, but it was only this season where I added it as a regular to my winter sports repertoire. My partner and I are both cyclists, and we were looking to change things up with some cross-training. The more we skied, I soon began
Read more
Weston Summit Skis Wil Rickards Skiing provides many wonderful metaphors to explore life. Backcountry skiing, with its added complexities, gives us even more. At the heart of them all lie two foundational and intertwined constructs; rhythm and balance. Nature has a metronome running like a heartbeat through everything; tides, moons, seasons. In human endeavor, it defines grace and elegance. Watch
Read more
Hagen Mountaineering Core 84 Ski Kyle Juszczyk Earlier this winter I bought a pair of really light pow skis. As a result, my new 108 waist skis weighed the same as my old 95s. That seemed unacceptable, so I started looking for a lightweight volcano crusher for the Pacific Northwest spring time. If you give a mouse a cookie…. right?
Read more
Atomic 95 Savor Ski Boot – Simple and Effective Kate Agathon Two words describe the Atomic Savor 95 (MSRP $475) women’s ski boot: simple and comfortable. Atomic 95 Savor Ski Boot Review A rear-entry ski boot, the Atomic Savor 95 is a throwback to the ski boots I wore in the late 1980s and early 1990s to now-defunct ski
Read more
Kora Yushu Base Layer – Yak Wool and Merino For the Win The Kora Yushu Base Layer $130 is made of yak and merino wool. Yak wool? Yes, yak wool. And it is super cool (literally)! Yak wool is even more efficient than merino as they live at a higher elevations than the merino sheep. This allows the yak wool
Read more