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Montbell Alpine Light Down Parka

Written by: Craig Rowe

The MSR MicroRocket is very well built, and has the fastest average boil time and best wind performance among stoves tested in this category.

Big Agnes Fire Tower Belay

Written by: Craig Rowe

The MSR MicroRocket is very well built, and has the fastest average boil time and best wind performance among stoves tested in this category.

Marmot Corkscrew Featherless

Written by: Craig Rowe

The MSR MicroRocket is very well built, and has the fastest average boil time and best wind performance among stoves tested in this category.

Stio Hometown Down Jacket

Written by: Craig Rowe

The MSR MicroRocket is very well built, and has the fastest average boil time and best wind performance among stoves tested in this category.

Fischer ProFoil

Written by: Brad Steele

The Fischer ProFoil is technically not called a climbing skin, since it’s not made out of mohair, nylon, or even seal skin—like back in the day. The ProFoil’s textured plastic adheres to the base of your skis in the same fashion as a climbing skin, except instead of using hair the ProFoils use a textured Read more ›

High Trail Evotec Climbing Skins

Written by: Brad Steele

The Switzerland-based parent company of High Trail is called Nova Sport AG, and was founded in 2005 by Yvonne Rochat. Initially the company offered classic glue-based climbing skins (100% mohair). Later, they ventured into the “glueless” climbing skin market with their Evotec skins (65% mohair and 35% nylon). The only other glueless climbing skin company Read more ›

Volkl Custom Climbing Skins

Written by: Brad Steele

The advent of pre-cut climbing skins has spared countless people stress, grief and frustration. Trimming a pair of skins is not an easy process for most, so being able to take them out of the box and use them right away is a huge plus. Volkl’s Custom Climbing Skins use a unique skin pin system Read more ›

G3 SCALA Climbing Skins

Written by: Brad Steele

G3’s innovative approach to climbing skin design has enabled them to solve a few key issues, namely, snow creep between the skin and ski at the tip and the difficulty of separating skins after glue-on-glue storage. Their new SCALA skins use a fish scaled Urethane Hybrid Tip Connector which replaces heavier climbing skin plush at Read more ›

POC Tectal Race SPIN

Written by: Marie Malinowski

The Specialized Ambush is a cycling helmet with an Aramid-Reinforced Skeleton for internal EPS support and Energy Optimized Multi-Density EPS construction to manage impact energy.

Kask Rex

Written by: Marie Malinowski

The Specialized Ambush is a cycling helmet with an Aramid-Reinforced Skeleton for internal EPS support and Energy Optimized Multi-Density EPS construction to manage impact energy.

Giro Montaro MIPS

Written by: Marie Malinowski

The Specialized Ambush is a cycling helmet with an Aramid-Reinforced Skeleton for internal EPS support and Energy Optimized Multi-Density EPS construction to manage impact energy.

LEM Flow

Written by: Marie Malinowski

The Specialized Ambush is a cycling helmet with an Aramid-Reinforced Skeleton for internal EPS support and Energy Optimized Multi-Density EPS construction to manage impact energy.