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The Best Base-Layer Bottoms for Skiing
If you don’t already ski in three-quarter-length (a.k.a. boot cut) base-layer bottoms, I highly recommend it. Your ski socks and leggings shouldn’t overlap on your calves beneath your ski pants or,...
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The 101: How to Buy a Ski Jacket
In this installment of The 101 from contributor Bryan Rogala, he walks us through the different types of ski jackets on the market.
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The Best All-Mountain Skis for Women
All skis—women’s or men’s—are designed with assumptions about who will ski them. Some common assumptions in the past: that smaller people couldn’t drive a solid ski, that women didn’t want to ski as...
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Are Expensive Ski Boots Worth the Money?
I often get asked versions of the question: How can the same ski company make a boot that costs $199 and one that costs four times that? The (very) short answer is that the fancier the materials, the...
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Need to Organize Your Gear? Get a Gorilla Rack
I haven’t always been a gearhead (read: hoarder). A mere eight years ago, the vast majority of what I owned fit either below the sleeping platform that I built in the bed of my 2000 Chevy Silverado or...
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Staff Picks: Classic Give'r Gloves
The Classic Give'r gloves ($45) are great all-around insulated waxed-leather work gloves. They break in nicely, molding to your hand, and come prewaxed, so no waterproofing treatment is required. From...
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How to Fix That Core Shot in Your Skis or Snowboard
Early ski season brings one guarantee: rocks. Spotty snow coverage means chances are high for running over a sharp edge and ripping up the base of your skis or board. (This is why you may want to...
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Ski Fashion Confuses Me
I don’t ski in jeans, but I did ski in leggings for a very long time. I was 22 years old when I first started learning the sport and had just recently gotten over my Floridian aversion to clothing...
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Women's Ski Bibs That Make Pee Breaks Easy
I’m pretty particular about ski bibs. Trying them on takes me right back to youth gymnastics, when I would awkwardly cram into a green velvet leotard that was too short for my torso and then have to...
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Why I Only Buy Expensive Ski Gloves for My Kids
I love to ski. Like, really love to ski. And now that I have kids, I want them to love skiing, too. I’ve been careful not to push them too hard, but I’ve also been consistent and weathered many...
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Behind the Scenes at Our 2020 Ski Test
In February, our team of testers headed to Steamboat Springs, Colorado, to try out new skis from every major brand in the industry. Over four days, each tester rode roughly 80 skis—about 22 per day....
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Behind the Scenes of Our 2020 Ski Test
Photo Gallery: Behind the Scenes of Our 2020 Ski Test
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What to Know When Buying Cross-Country Skis
As the darkness of a COVID winter looms, I plan on cross-country skiing my face off. It’s the perfect socially distant winter activity: glide off into solitary oblivion without a chairlift in sight,...
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Exactly What to Wear for Backcountry Skiing
Pro skiers Mali Noyes and Drew Petersen teamed up with Salomon TV and Switchback Entertainment to outline the basic apparel you need to stay warm and dry, whether you’re headed uphill or down. From...
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This Gear Makes Parking-Lot Après Fun
Whether it’s morning meetups, quad-resting coffee breaks, or lunchtime defrosting sessions, a ski area’s base lodge is a sanctuary. But not this season. Sure, they’ll still be open, but thanks to...
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How to Wash Your Ski Kit
We at Outside devote a lot of words and hours to caring for and refurbishing our winter hard goods. And for good reason: ski and board upkeep is satisfying and delivers the immediate gratification of a...
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Uphill Ski Touring for Beginners
Salomon athletes Greg Hill and Leah Evans teamed up with Salomon TV and Switchback Entertainment to show us the basic techniques of uphill ski touring. This video covers route finding, uphill-skinning...
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Avalanche-Gear Basics for Backcountry Skiing
Pro skiers Chris Rubens and Greg Hill teamed up with Salomon TV and Switchback Entertainment to break down avalanche-gear essentials for backcountry skiing. In this video, they cover how to use...
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The Best Ski Gloves Are the Simplest Ones
Of the thousands of pieces of gear I’ve tested as Outside’s Gear Guy, many of them are for hyperspecific purposes: midlayers for aerobic runs in temperate climates, skis for six inches-plus of blower...
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How to Get an Entire State Hooked on Skiing
Late winter in Alaska can be a magical time. Days are getting longer, frozen rivers are still blanketed with snow, and in many places, conditions are near-perfect for cross-country skiing. Yet while...
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