If you’re anything like us, you’re a little bit irritated and maybe a little bit confused by the binding situation in the ski market these days. This morning as I was setting up the photo for this comparison I sent a snapshot to Patrick Moore (known to the cool kids as Toque, only because he’s […]

Next week we will go on our third ski selection trip of the year – this time to Norway. Wait. What? Three trips? Yes. Three trips. We used to go on only one trip to Europe each year, but then we figured out a couple of important things. One important thing is that, by making […]

We don’t often worry, or even think much, about the layers of ownership involved in the ski industry. But last October, Newell Brands announced that it would be selling off its winter sports holdings following a merger with Jarden, the parent company of K2, and subsequently Madshus. Newell and Jarden are big players in in […]

We usually try to schedule some fun adventures into our European ski selection trips. Anytime we can turn a business trip into a vacation it reminds us how lucky we are to have carved out our little niche in the industry. Also, pictures of mountains and fun mountain activities are vastly more effective marketing material […]

Summer inevitably ends in a mad acceleration of fun, squeezed into an ever-tightening timeframe, and terminating in the long grind of the fall season. We’re in it now – just home from Colorado, where Amy had a great day in the Leadville 100 MTB race. We’re cramming in a bunch of bike riding, cousin Lucy’s […]

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Most ski equipment nerds (if you’re reading this, then that’s you) have heard that Fischer and Rossignol have introduced a new binding for next year. Like everybody, we’ve had a lot of questions. This afternoon Andrew Gardner brought some new Speedmax skis with Turnamic bindings down to help answer some of these questions. Andrew is […]

We’re not going to the American Birkebeiner this year, which means that we’re free to prognosticate from home without any big chance of having to eat our words. We won’t be offering an official wax recommendation this year because the weather is comically chaotic. But we’re happy to offer an interpretation of the situation, and […]

I always promise myself that I’m going to take a ton of photos at these big championship events where we’ve got all our test skis and materials spread out, and test pilots on the snow for long hours. But it seems my hands and brain stay too busy with other things. We’ve just concluded back […]

Conditions at Soldier Hollow over the past two days have run the gamut from rain yesterday afternoon to a cold morning of temps at about -18F when our testing started. The course preparation has been… well, call it late. The distance courses were finalized yesterday afternoon, and this morning the snow-guns were still blowing when […]