Last year, it was the Marker Duke binding that created major buzz for revolutionizing alpine touring bindings. For next year, G3 may just have the spotlight. Or they may just get called out for making a heavier version of a Dynafit binding. This week, they released the news on their first-ever AT binding, the Onyx.

Buttians and loyal followers of all things Butte. Wax

Is nothing sacred anymore? Is nothing safe? Certainly doesn

Ok, that may have been a fairly underhanded topic heading for a blog about the NTN system (New Telemark Norm for you lay people), intended merely to allure you, the reader, into participating in a review from someone other than joe-schmoe-product-tester-with-not-more-than-a-handful-of-days-on-the-super-duper-dynamic-new boot-binding-combo (maybe the longest and raddest use of hyphens in any product review ever); although it may not be as misleading as one might think. I

We promise we'll get back to talking about the fun parts of skiing soon

It was indeed a White Christmas in Tahoe. Alpine Meadows received 25 inches in 24 hours. The white stuff covered the beer bottle we set outside in under an hour. There were maybe 100 people skiing at Alpine, which meant deep Sierra powder until well into the afternoon. But Santa didn't bring all good news [...]

When we ski out of bounds, we bring safety gear and understand the risks involved. But when skiing in inbounds, it's easy to just shut off your mind and enjoy yourself

It was the summer of 2005 when Jackson Hole resort stated that the infamous Red Box, the 39-year-old tram, was going to be retired.

Remember Kastle Skis, the Austrian race ski at the top of World Cup podiums in the '70s and '80s? In the 90s, the brand got absorbed by Nordica and disappeared entirely. In 2007, a couple young Austrians decided to bring the skis back. The result is a high-end line of carving, all-mountain, and big-mountain skis [...]