Get Prepared for Ski Season
Take the pre-season to get primed and ready for your next ski season!
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ProView – Zeal Optics Hangfire
When the sky just can’t make up its mind, the Dark Night Zeal Hangfire Goggle is the remedy on those bi-polar days.
Your Local Retail Shop: Cripple Creek Backcountry
Cripple Creek Backcountry just opened a new shop in Seattle, WA and we chatted with the store's manager to get the scoop!
Our Favorites: Backcountry Skiing and Splitboarding Gear for Women
A Gear List Written By and For Women in the Backcountry Every year when I dust off my backcountry kit, I take stock of what worked the previous season. I scrutinize everything, from the snacks I carry to the spare…
ProView – Mountain Hardwear Women’s High Exposure Gore-Tex C-Knit Jacket
My first impression of the High Exposure C-Knit Jacket was that it was impressively thin and flexible. My other backcountry shells in the same category are stiffer and a little bulkier – this one feels like a more buttery raincoat.…
ProView – Mountain Hardwear Women’s High Exposure Gore-Tex C-Knit Jacket
I’m a mountain instructor and guide working in the Pacific Northwest. As the seasons change and I’m well into the routine of spending my days in the mountains, it becomes increasingly important that my gear works just as hard as…
Women in the Backcountry, Part 2: Avalanche Education and Building Competency
The Journey is the Adventure The four of us laughed, leaning closer to the hut’s wood-burning stove as logs popped and crackled. Beverages in hand, we cozied into the conversation: what would we ski tomorrow? Where would conditions let us…
Women in the Backcountry, Part 1: Why Do Women-Only Spaces Matter?
“There it is!” Jen’s voice rang across the cirque as the mid-morning sun slithered striped shadows across the north-facing slopes we planned to ski. She pointed, I gawked. We needed to hustle: we still had a good distance to climb…
ProView – Weston Backcountry Riva Splitboard
It’s early, but I can’t go back to sleep: the snowplows beeping outside tell me it’s time to move the van and drive to the trailhead. The last two months of winter van life have been as variable as the…
ProView – Mountain Hardwear Women’s Boundary Line Gore-Tex Insulated Pant
Adventure often begins where the resort’s highest lift ends. Vanlifing through California, Nevada, and Colorado in early season conditions, the Boundary Line pants facilitated every powdery, icy, slushy snow interaction in my westerly migration of December 2019. Early season snowpack…