Buying Guides

Spring rolls in and the icefields open up. Lines get skied that only exist for a few weeks a year. It's also the time of year when more skiers than usual find themselves roped to partners on glaciated terrain for the first time, staring at a tangle of cord and hardware and wondering if they've brought the right stuff.

Over the past few years, ATK has become the gold standard in tech bindings, especially in the freetouring space. Plenty of brands make pin bindings that go uphill, but ATK’s real strength is building bindings that also ski exceptionally well...

Sizing climbing skins isn’t complicated, but getting it wrong is surprisingly easy. Too narrow and you lose grip. Too short and the tail lets go when it matters. Too wide or too long and you’re trimming forever for no reason.

The goal is simple: full base coverage where it matters, without excess material you don’t need. Here’s how to get there.

Climbing skins look simple. A fuzzy strip, some glue, clip it on and go uphill. In reality, skins are one of the biggest contributors to how efficient, frustrating, or enjoyable your touring day feels. Glide, grip, glue, durability, packability — every choice shows up with every single step.

There’s no single “best” skin, but there is a best skin for how and where you ski. Here’s how to think about it.

Ski crampons are traction for when skins stop being traction. Firm spring mornings, refrozen skintracks, wind-scoured ridges, sidehills, this is where a thin strip of steel becomes the most important thing in your pack. The tricky part isn’t understanding why they...

The truth is, there is no one-shoe-quiver that works for all feet and all runners. Different shoes serve different purposes and understanding these different tools and what they are meant for can help you make well-informed decisions for your feet. At the end of the day not all shoes serve a single purpose, but here's how we generally organize them in categories. 

As shoe experts, health care professionals or runners, it is important to see beyond the fight for market share and to look at what actual research tells us about running shoes. Let’s take a look.

The Bow Valley is a little tricky when it comes to Winter trail conditions. Typically, the shallow snowpack melts and freezes or packs down to ice very quickly and turns many descents in some terrifying slip n' slides. Proper gear, and especially a well adapted pair of running shoes, is essential to avoid those death-defying moments and keep the fun... well, fun. Here are some of our favourite Winter running tools to stay upright in any kind of terrain.