
TREW 2013/2014 Website
Just wrapped up another great session with the radical Hood River-based outerwear company, TREW. They are nothing if not consistent, blowing my mind every year with the best-looking, best-performing ski and snowboard apparel in the industry. The entire line has been revamped for the coming season, and they just introduced a jacket, bib, and fleece...

Field Notes “America: The Beautiful” Edition
Man, I didn’t want to like Field Notes. These little notebooks are the peripheral hangers-on to the whole “heritage” trend at the most basic level. They can’t be expensive to produce, yet a three-pack costs $9.95, so I’m guessing the breakdown is something like: $0.95 = cost of production, $8.75 = overhead, primarily mustache wax and organic coffee...

How To: Pick The Right Ski Length
One of the first articles I wrote for Backcountry was on the tricky subject of ski lengths, a subject made even trickier in the sight-unseen (and un-demo’d) world of online retail. While this article is short and technical, I think we did a good job of educating without over-educating, and I hope it makes the...