For the past ten days, the ski lifts at Lioran have been at a standstill, marking a premature end to the season. This is the third consecutive winter where the resort has had to grapple with an ...

The Pure Freeride keeps the pivot point 30mm behind the toe for optimal climbing. With the included ski brakes it makes a great in and outbounds binding capable of handling longer day tours. A dual ...

The Garmont Adrenalin is a tall, stiff boot thanks to the Pebax® shell reinforced with carbon fibre at stress points. The boot has four micro-adjustable clips in aluminium in mirrored pairs for ...

Introduced for the 2007 season the Snoop Daddy gets a new topsheet, not everyone liked last year's retro graphics so Atomic has gone for a formica wood effect laminate (okay it is not really formica!) ...

The paper "Evidence of heuristic traps in recreational avalanche accidents" presented at the 2002 International Snow Science Workshop by Ian McCammon gives some interesting insights into the decisions ...

Météo France publishes an avalanche bulletin (BRA) for the Alps, Pyrenees and Corsica on a daily basis throughout the ski season from mid-December to the end of April. There is a twice weekly bulletin ...

The avalanche ball is a development of the avalanche cords that skiers used before the development of avalanche transceiver. Like a cord, it floats to the surface giving an immediate visual clue as to ...

The B2 often gets labelled as a "punter ski" or it "lacks character" possibly because it does a lot of things very well. The progressive flex means that it is easy to initiate and carve different ...

Researchers using data gathered by the Swiss Avalanche Research Center at Davos for accidents between 1981 and 1991 have plotted the survival probability of a victim buried under snow against time.

The famous Seth Pistol has turned into the Seth Vicious for the 2005/2006 season. Seth Morrison's hommage to punk skiing and Sid Viscous has gained surface area at the front end and underfoot but at ...

Decided to go for a bit longer ride, only 44km mind, over 4 summits to do some climbing. A bit sluggish on the climbs to be honest - VAM of about 670m/h over 30 minutes. Nice to be though and quite ...