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Backcountry Magazine is ecstatic to announce the 2013 Editors' Choice Awards. These are next year's best backcountry skis, boots and bindings and we, the editors at Backcountry Magazine should know. Last spring, our team of 50 testers evaluated some 500 products at Powder Mountain, Ut. over more than 1,800 runs. We've boiled the beta for the last four months and narrowed the field—the top 70 skis, 40 boots, and 18 bindings are featured in the 2013 Gear Guide and among them are the Editors' Choice standouts. Highlighted here are the best of the best, but for more skis, boots, and bindings (and more about these products), pick up the 2013 Gear Guide, on newsstands August 28.
At this year’s gear tests, we evaluated over 400 products. When the dust settled there were 31 standouts, and they’ve been awarded Editors’ Choice. Find out what products took home the honors, here.
Colorado to California, Massachusetts to Montana; more than 40 men and women testers from ten states converged on the slopes of Powder Mountain, Utah for Backcountry's biggest-and-best ski, boot, and binding test ever.
Colorado to California, Massachusetts to Montana; more than 40 men and women testers from ten states converged on the slopes of Powder Mountain, Utah for Backcountry's biggest-and-best ski test ever.
Colorado to California, Massachusetts to Montana; more than 40 men and women testers from ten states converged on the slopes of Powder Mountain, Utah for Backcountry's biggest-and-best boot test ever.
Colorado to California, Massachusetts to Montana; more than 40 men and women testers from ten states converged on the slopes of Powder Mountain, Utah for Backcountry's biggest-and-best binding test ever.
Colorado to California, Massachusetts to Montana; more than 40 men and women testers from ten states converged on the slopes of Powder Mountain, Utah for Backcountry's biggest-and-best board test ever.
Colorado to California, Massachusetts to Montana; more than 40 men and women testers from ten states converged on the slopes of Powder Mountain, Utah for Backcountry's biggest-and-best womens' test ever.
We received prototypes of Voile's new Vector BC a couple of weeks after we reviewed the innovative crop of wide, waxless skis available last year. The Vector is a game changer, and it quickly became apparent in testing that splay—fully-rockered tips—carried the day.
Metal-edge waxless touring skis are making a resurgence. Following the success of the Karhu Guide, companies like Madshus, Rossignol, Fischer and Marquette are jumping full on into the light-touring scene. This January, we put the latest gear to the test, and here are the results.
Colorado to California, Massachusetts to Montana; more than 40 men and women testers from ten states converged on the slopes of Powder Mountain, Utah for Backcountry’s biggest—and-best ski test ever.
