The Best Ski Helmets of 2025, As Recommended By Our Testers
2024年11月7日 · From high-tech brain buckets to super-lightweight lids, we tested and reviewed the best ski helmets from brands like Smith, Giro, POC, Dakine, SHRED, and more.
Powder Review: 2025 Völkl Revolt 104 Skis
2024年9月22日 · Groomers & Resort Skiing: The Revolt 104 has very deep rocker lines, but still turns surprisingly well, with good edge hold on groomed snow. It follows plenty of the design principles of the venerable Völkl Gotama, with the long rise and damp ski engaging instantly when put on edge, counteracting the deep rocker lines.
How To Ski Moguls: 7 Essential Tips for All Skill Levels
2024年11月10日 · 7 Essential Tips for Skiing Moguls. Keep your eyes downhill: Looking ahead two or three moguls, instead of straight down at your skis, will help to anticipate the ever-changing terrain. Lean forward, not back!: We get it. We all have a natural tendency to lean back when the terrain gets challenging.
These Are The Best Avalanche Beacons of 2025 - powder.com
2024年12月23日 · Here’s how we tested beacons: This year, we tested all our beacons identically, first in a standard range check, then in a search strip width (receiving range) test, and then in a controlled setup mirroring the PRO 1 Multiple Burial Rescue Exam (a standard test that all backcountry professionals are tested to). As a baseline for the multiple-burial test, we buried two identical Mammut ...
Best BOA Ski Boots of 2025 - Powder
2024年9月30日 · Stated Flex: 130 Stated Weight (size 26.5): 1785 g Best for: An aggressive skier looking for a one-boot quiver to balance time inbounds and out the gates. Read Powder's Full Review of the Salomon Shift Alpha BOA 130. With the Shift Alpha BOA 130, Salomon rethinks the walk-mode freeride BOA boot and turns it into something worth taking into the backcountry for aggressive riding.
Best Backcountry Touring Skis of 2025 - Powder
The Safe Bet: We still absolutely love it and will say it again.The Salomon QST 106 Echo is still the easiest touring ski to recommend on the market right now. It will work really well for most skiers in most conditions. For the Adventurous: Faction Skis just released their 2025 lineup, and we're so glad the Faction La Machine 3 is still part of it. It's a freeride-ready ski that's so light ...
Powder Review: 2025 Rossignol Super Black Ops 98
2024年9月18日 · Where does the Rossignol Super Black Ops 98 shine? What makes the Rossignol Super Black Ops 98 such a great ski is that its relatively simple design doesn’t pigeonhole it into any particular category or style of skiing - it caters to a pretty broad swath of skier types from hardpack chargers with a need for speed, to all-mountain jibbers, to big-mountain skiers that like techy, bony lines ...
The 10 Most Affordable Ski Resorts in the United States
2024年11月13日 · 2. Ski Cooper, Colorado In 2024, Ski Cooper, Colorado, made a bold play. It slashed midweek ticket prices to $45 a day, vastly undercutting Coloradan stalwarts like Vail Mountain and Aspen Snowmass. These prices jump back up to a more normal range for Fridays, weekends, and holidays, but the allure of Ski Cooper’s midweek deal remains undeniable.
How To Adjust Your Ski Bindings - powder.com
2024年10月18日 · With that disclaimer out of the way, setting up your bindings isn’t rocket science. If an underpaid 22-year-old rocking these sunglasses in your local ski shop can do it, so can you. Of course, if you’re unsure of your work, take it …
Best All Mountain Skis of 2025 - Powder
2024年10月2日 · The Safe Bet: The Atomic Bent 100 is a longtime favorite for a reason, it's absurdly dependable and reliable. Unsurprisingly, the updated 2024/25 version is even better. For the Adventurous: Salomon's new Départ 1.0 is the most fun freestyle ski we've been on all year, and combines all-mountain performance with freestyle excitement in a truly unique way.