Winter

Rough, low-budget, grassroots, and chock full of young skiers pushing limits with no pretense and little concern for anything other than fun. That’s a Line’s…

The Canyons ski resort in Utah recently dismantled its historic 42-year-old Golden Eagle chairlift. Artists descended to recreate the chairs for a unique “chairitable” cause.

Greg Hill is a man on a mission to ski 2 million total vertical feet by his own power during the calendar year of 2010.…

Jones Snowboards reinvents the powder-board game with its Hovercraft, a deep-snow ride that won’t break the bank.

Mount Bohemia, a tiny ski resort at the tip of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, offers chutes, glades, cliffs, and other forms of expert terrain heretofore absent…

No, that’s not a bear trap. It’s La Sportiva’s svelte and ultra-light backcountry ski binding, new to the U.S. and Canadian markets next month!

“Park features with powder landings” — that’s the premise at Smith Optics’ private freeride paradise, an 800-acre park in Idaho on the site of an…

The Marquette Backcountry Ski is marketed as “30% snowshoe, 70% ski.” They cost $179 and are built for a wide swath of terrain and a…

A new coffee-table book includes hundreds of color photos and more than 200 pages filled with words of worship to the best backcountry runs North…

Burton’s 2011 collection includes graphics by Paul Smith and Ralph Steadman, with aesthetic nods that range from electrical-wire motifs to Hunter Thompson’s “Fear and Loathing…

This skis’ suspension mechanism resembles an automotive leaf spring, only inverted and with a ski binding perched on top.

The Bern Watts Carbon weighs a mere 15 ounces with its winter liner giving a new meaning to the phrase “light headed.”