The North Face will be entering the avalanche airbag market next season with two products, a 24 liter pack and a vest.
Category: Gear
Jan 04 2012
Preview: Garmont’s Power-Lite AT Boot Series
Borrowing elements from their welter weight Alpine Lite series, the shells will be built from Grilamid, a thinner and lighter but stronger PU based plastic. Overall stiffness of the shell is rated at 125, meaning it isn’t the stiffest boot on the market, but it’s hardly soft.
Jan 02 2012
Review: Black Diamond Aspect Ski
For the turn happy skier Black Diamond’s Aspect ski makes an easy first impression. There’s a lot of shape compared to many of today’s moderately curved skis as evidenced by a wide 126 mm at the shovel, but only 90mm at the waist. Whether it’s delicious powder, velvety corn, even soft chunder and day-old funk …
Dec 28 2011
Review: La Sportiva GT Skis
La Sportiva delivers a solid mid-fat ski in their inaugural foray into the skiing realm with the GT. I holds well on firm snow with a lively, snappy responsiveness between turns.
Dec 26 2011
Review: Fischer BCX875 Boot
Fischer has added some beef to their Nordic ski boot program with their BCX875 boot. This is a 75mm soled boot, aimed at the rugged touring (S-Bound) crowd who like to make a few tele turns while cruising the woods and foothills.
Dec 21 2011
Review: G3 Alpinist Climbing Skins
You have to be pretty particular, or simply have skis that are too thick at the tip to not like G3’s Alpinist Climbing Skins out of the box. The tip and tail kit are impressive, as is their welded attachment to the skin itself. And then there is the reduced thread count, laid-back weave of …
Dec 18 2011
Review: Petzl Tikka XP CORE Headlamp
Petzl’s Tikka XP is a great utilitarian headlamp for around the home, lighting the way on dawn patrol, or basecamp duties. Where it really shines, however, is in the rechargeable lithium-ion polymer CORE battery that uses a power cord that plugs into any USB port.
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