One of the stars of January’s Outdoor Retailer trade show was the The North Face Polar Hooded Jacket and a remarkably similar Outdoor Research jacket called the Lodestar, both of which were touted as replacements for puffy down jackets. Indeed, some breathlessly dubbed these “puffy killers.” And it’s true that the new Polartec Power Shield [...]
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Last week British Columbia’s provincial government approved a proposed $900 million ski resort in the Purcell Range. It would eventually include more than 20 lifts and be the only four-season ski area in North America, since the lifts would bisect a glacier and serve a huge area of terrain — at 15,000 acres it would be double the size of Whistler-Blackcomb.
ANTI-DOPING AUTHORITIES HAVE A NEW SCOURGE — GREEN TEA. If you’re trying to juice, one tried and true M.O. is testosterone injections, which aid recovery. Ask Floyd Landis, who used the male hormone in the Tour de France. To catch testosterone dopers, authorities look for an unusual ratio of testosterone to a hormone called epitestosterone. [...]
Really, do you need to know anything more than “Ratatouille, the snowboarding possum”? I’d like to see him go head to head with the Russian snowboarding crow.
What you’re looking at is the Abrams Tank of iPhone cases. It’s not svelte, and it’s not especially pretty (though it comes in pink if you think that’s a plus), but there’s little doubt that some massive brain power went into making the LifeProof case as ridiculously bomber as it could be and still allow [...]
As a kid I learned to ski at a tiny mountain called Ski Acres in the Cascades. With all of 1,000 feet of vertical, 350 acres, and Washington State’s first chairlift, a 1948 single-chair that was still creaking along when I was a teenager, Ski Acres was every bit a family mountain. On 12 Saturdays [...]
Is this the worst winter ever? It depends on where you are, of course, but the big picture in North America has been bleakness as far as the eye can see. Despite the occasional pocket of dumposity, it’s been thin and thinner from coast to coast. Some ski areas had their latest openings ever, some [...]
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