Highly custom and a bit weird, this article covers a bike build made by a GearJunkie editor specifically for the winter streets of the northerly city of Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Homeschool Snowboarding touts performance before style with its base layers and outerwear. But any time you insert long johns with a rainbow-on-black motif it pretty much balances the equation.

Advertised to be the lightest women's snowshoes on the market, the Elites from Northern Lites feel almost invisible on the feet. We put them to a test this month in new-fallen snow around Minnesota.

The backcountry of the Chic-Choc mountains in Quebec was the venue for our writer's Telemark test, including Voile skis, Scarpa boots, and a new, lighter binding from Rottefella.

For $10 you can now ski at Crested Butte Mountain Resort. Oh, but forget about the chairlifts. A new policy allows skin-equipped skiers to kick and pole uphill on designated routes.

Touted as a new kind of media resource, MtnAdvisor launches this month for powder seekers, families, and ski bums alike. A blend of beta on weather, snowfall, and lift prices is balanced with content from GrindMedia properties to make the venture unique.

"Ligety Completes Triple at World Championships." That headline tops news sources around the world today. GearJunkie got the inside scoop on the equipment Ligety employed to get him on the podium (and into the history books) this week.

A Hollywood production? No, this was the scene last weekend at the Winter Mountain Games, where free-heel skiers hucked off a giant ramp backlit by a pyrotechnics crew on a ski slope.

A skier crashes into a tree at 1:07. Our contributing editor, Sean McCoy, makes a cameo a couple minutes in. Check out this video from last weekend's ski-mountaineering race in Vail for a primer on the growing alpine sport.

Our contributing editor raced for three days last weekend in Vail. The occasion was the Winter Mountain Games, and the events spanned Nordic, Ski Mountaineering, and "uphill running" challenges.