A decent price, skin glue that meets the stickiness not-too-sticky benchmark, tip and tail security, and, if you are so stirred, the choice of a jungle print or pineapple patterned skin (in a nylon varietal)—all from Bozeman’s Big Sky Mountain Products. A review of the BSMP Mohair Mix Endurance Skin.
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Staying dry from the outside. This will become a durability test. I’ve worn the Stellar set up for 27 ski tours, 6 resort days, 1 xc day (I know, I know not cool for xc but why are we talking cool for xc?), shoveling a lot of snow, digging snow caves with my kids. Which is a very wet endeavor.
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On July 13, a friend of many in the ski and avalanche community, Bill Nalli, passed away from cancer. I am sure that among the many who miss him already will be the mountains themselves, whose glistening snow-covered faces will be absent for the first time in decades from the ever energetic turns and quick smiles of our friend Bill. Then again, maybe he is out there after all and forever.
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Nothing to protest here, except a lack of powder. Coming to terms with the Praxis Protest means seizing joy when fire and brimstone align and it dumps powder. The Protest is a ski built to have all kinds of fun.
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After an epic season in the Wasatch, writer Peter Vordenberg wonders about it all and what’s to come. He writes: Winter is joy. And skiing is life. Or you are on the wrong webpage.
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