TOP GUN: The 3 Award Winning Ski Jackets of 2015 Lets face it. Your ski jacket is the gear that will be noticed most by your friends and passersby. So, you want it to look cool. Dig down past a ski jacket’s skin deep appearance and you’ll realize that this is the one piece of gear between you being cold, wet, and miserable and you being warm, dry, and happy. A quality ski jacket is a must in the mountains and it certainly doesn’t hurt if drags some style along with it. Check out these award winning ski jackets for an ideas of what’s hot – both literally and figuratively – in 2015. OnTheSnow.com gave their Editors’ Choice Award to 10 Ski Jackets skis this year, but the Patagonia Women’s Snowbelle Jacket got […] Gear Review SnowBrains | November 11, 2014 0 Comments
TOP GUN: The 6 Award Winning All-Mountain Skis of 2015 The one quiver ski? The everyday ski? The ski that can do it all? Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it? In this day and age, it isn’t. There are some beefy all mountain skis out there that you can ski everyday. Especially if you go a bit shorter in length, these things will even hit the park. The only conditions these ski might not be perfectly perfect for is extremely deep powder. For those riduculously deep days, it’s good to have an obnoxiously large powder ski. Unfortunately, those stupidly deep days only come so often and for just about all other days, these award winning all mountain skis will do the trick. […] Gear Review SnowBrains | November 4, 2014 1 Comment
RESQSKI: Transceivers For Your Skis RESQSKI is an English company that is marketing a very interesting product for powder skiers. They make an electronic ski finder that helps you find your lost skis when you crash and they are buried in snow. If you’ve ever spent precious hours on a powder day searching for a lost ski, or lost an expensive ski altogether, you know […] Gear Review Lee Lyon | November 2, 2014 2 Comments
Top Gun: The 3 Industry Award Winning Ski Boots of 2015 Question: “What is the most important piece of ski gear in skiing?” Answer: “Your boots” Why are ski boots the most important piece of in skiing? Because your boots are the only thing that actually touch your body. They are the adaptor between you and your ski. If your boots are low quality, your skiing will be as well. If you boots are loose, your feet will be moving and your ski will not. That foot motion won’t translate to ski motion and your sweet moves will be lost in translation. So, […] Gear Review SnowBrains | October 27, 2014 3 Comments
Top Gun: The Six Industry Award Winning Powder Skis of 2015 2015 has already brought us a plethora of big, fat, burly powder skis. There’s literally dozens of these things, so how do we know which are the best of the best? The most efficient way to know which Powder Skis are the best is to compile all the Powder Skis that won awards from reputable sources who put in the energy to test every 2015 powder ski out there. Just Freeskier alone tested over 350 skis last year. We’ve aggregated the 5 best powder skis of 2015 according to the industries highest awards for you and displayed them here. These are the best of the best. The top guns of […] Gear Review SnowBrains | October 22, 2014 3 Comments
Gear Review: DPS Wailer 112 RPC 112 RP. The RPC is 3 mm wider, with a lower tip and tail profile, and a larger turn radius than the RP. The C stands for charger. I skied my RPC somewhere around 100 days, most of which were on lift accessed terrain of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort and the surrounding backcountry. These skis were unique because they excelled in a wide variety of terrain. At 2037 grams per ski for the 186 cm length, these are insanely light, yet have the stability and dampness you would normally see in a metal ski, I have yet to hit the speed limit on these. Due to their ridiculously low weight, the RPCs are also extremely fun in the trees. With a low swing weight it was easy to get them from edge to edge quickly and […] Gear Review Liza Sarychev | October 5, 2014 0 Comments
Is This the Biggest Breakthrough in Avalanche Technology Yet? | AvaTech: Avatech is a new company that has developed a digital snow probe used to help analyze snow conditions and give real time feed back to help predict and understand avalanches. This new digital probe is said to be the future of avalanche forecasting and also will give a better and […] Avalanche Ryan Mulcahy | September 16, 2014 0 Comments
The Best Powder Skis of 2015 | by Powder Magazine Powder Magazine has just dropped their list for the best powder skis of 2015. You’ve gotta have a pow ski, so you might as well have one of the best ones, right? Powder Magazine knows a thing or two about skiing powder, so lets have look at what they’ve listed and hit the link above to get more detail about each ski’s performance. Ski design has evolved enormously since the beginnings of the modern sport in mid-19th Century Norway. Modern skis typically have steel edges, camber, side cut, and possibly reverse camber. During the 1990s side cut became more pronounced to make it easier to carve turns. Specialised types of alpine skis […] Gear Review SnowBrains | September 8, 2014 0 Comments
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