Mountain Gazette, "New Yorker" of the West. Read through the July Mountain Gazette last week; their mountain biking theme issue. A few pages after a useful fireworks how-to that describes proper technique for shooting bottle rockets at people, the obligatory land use article caught my eye. In "The Golden Rule," author Doug Schnitzspahn covers the Roadless [...]...

Guest Blog by Craig Dostie For years I've been hearing about how much more breathable eVent™ is compared to Goretex™. As luck would have it, back during my magazine publishing days the samples that floated through the office always ended up covering another editors' body. Frankly I was perfectly satisfied with my Schoeller™ jacket for most [...]...

(First, apologies for our site being down again this morning for about 35 minutes. Our new hosting at Media Temple seems to be somewhat unreliable. Gut punch. We're looking at other options. Appreciate your patience. ) Industrial standards are a mixed blessing (e.g., it's required quite a bit of designer skill to keep Dynafit bindings and [...]...

Okay, time to lighten things up. If you guys see me skiing next winter, and I'm making turns like Bode Miller, Hermann Maier and Chris Davenport, here is why: Our WildSnow industrial espionage department was attempting to steal the technology, but just found out that by the time Summer OR show commences it will be built [...]...

If you enjoy Colorado's network of backcountry roads (or primitive tracks anywhere in the U.S.), watch out for bulldozers "improving" them. Just last summer we headed for one of our popular local 4×4, ATV and mountain bike trails (Schofield Pass) and found it graded into submission by USFS funded heavy machinery. Thankfully rains and washouts [...]...