Best known for their brimmed, all season, all action sports helmets, Bern now launches their first ever ski-specific helmets this winter—the Kingston and the Rollins. Using new technology, the ski helmets are lighter and stronger, all while maintaining Bern’s signature low profile and fit.
For a long time, Gore has focused on improving the thermal comfort of your outerwear. Basically, how can you make a jacket or pants more breathable without hindering performance in both durability and waterproofness. This time around, Gore turned their focus to the more sensorial aspects of a garment—how does it feel and even sound. The result is Gore C-Knit Backer Technology.
Looks like Oakley, Recon Instruments, and Garmin held a meeting of the minds in order to create the ultimate in snow goggles. The latest Oakley Airwave 1.5 not only delivers Recon’s heads-up display functionality, but now also enables you to live view and control your Garmin VIRB Elite action camera.
Ever tried to snowboard and spent more time on your backside than actually on top of the board? Even seasoned riders biff from time to time and butt plant into the hard pack snow or worse yet—ice. Well now there is no need to crawl away in humiliation and pain, as the Ass Armor compression short takes the hit for you.
No one likes to ski looking trying to see through a white wall of fog. Not only can it be annoying, but also incredibly dangerous, especially in already flat light conditions. To keep you seeing clearly, new company Abominable Labs created F-BOM—a pair of snow goggles with lenses that heat up, much like the rear window defroster of a car, to continually eliminate fog on your goggle lenses.
A lightweight glove designed for alpine use, we first tested the The North Face Vengeance on a fast and light ascent of Mt. Hood. The gloves are constructed out of a 3-layer Gore-tex Pro shell with removable Polartec Wind Pro liner. The liner features a thin layer of Primaloft pads along the back of the hands and fingers for added protection and insulation.
