Gear Review: G3 FINDr Skis are a funny business. They are a combination of what one might consider mere mechanical construction, yet they are also part art. A portion of that is certainly due to the delight we experience when shussing through snow, but the real magic is how ski designers take a common set...
Ditch the Bandwagon: The Pariah
Pariah telemark ski — will you join the outcasts? The last time you heard of ‘telemark specific’ skis, you were probably in some ski shop littered with Glen Plake posters, looking at a pair of K2 Telemark Work Stinxs. Well, it’s not the mid-2000’s anymore and ‘telemark specific’ has taken on a whole new meaning....
Review: Volkl’s VTA88
Even with a pair of one of the heaviest alpine tech bindings mounted to them, Marker’s Kingpin, Volkl’s new VTA88 is a bonafide welterweight. Without bindings you might even consider them to be featherweight, but that would suggest an absence of muscle that in reality, the VTA has no shortage of. Think of the VTA88...
