We’re looking for basic information and reader input on ski boots, specifically, perceived range of motion (ROM) while skinning, climbing, and hiking. We’re working on a story about such nerdy concepts. Generally, we spend 90% of our backcountry touring time going uphill, so things like ROM matter.

Visualizing the backcountry as a Splitboarder takes a different perspective than a skier. Learning to splitboard and reading terrain has unique challenges — we’re here to minimize those challenges with helpful pointers on anticipating backcountry terrain and keeping the fun factor high.

Keeping it slow news is a good thing, these are topsy-turvy times. Here’s some good news: Winter hit deep in November (and it continues) and saw a corresponding uptick in ski width. What follows is some backcountry-related news as we stream toward the winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere.

Gift guide number two: Hopefully, these guides prompt us all to think of others and what they might like to receive as a gift. Also, it’s OK by us to show some self-gratitude and buy something for yourself. We have included replacement binding heel or toe units.

The 2023 W2W Hilaree Nelson Education Scholarship program aims to empower women through their passion for mountain sports.

It is that time of year: Gift Guide season. Sales abound, Black Friday extends to Monday, and there’s a scurry to infill gifts for those who made the short-list. In the build-up to no matter what you celebrate, the solstice, which we suppose from an available daylight metric is something to observe, goes down in the Northern Hemisphere at 1:47 PM Dec. 21. You still have time to think of others. Let the gifting begin.