Backcountry Magazine's annual descent upon Powder Mountain has commenced. After cross-country travel, flying over snow storms and overnights spent in airports, all of our 50 testers have arrived, and Gear Test Week is now officially underway.
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Freeheeler and veteran tester Baron Von Shaggleton Bailey gets profiled. (Read more...)
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Mounted with GoPros, Chief Videographer Teo Campbell captured the mood of day one during Backcountry's gear test week.
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Backcountry Magazine's annual descent upon Powder Mountain has commenced. After cross-country travel, flying over snow storms and overnights spent in airports, all of our 50 testers have arrived, and Gear Test Week is now officially underway.
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Read more...)
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Freeheeler and veteran tester Baron Von Shaggleton Bailey gets profiled. (Read more...)
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Mounted with GoPros, Chief Videographer Teo Campbell captured the mood of day one during Backcountry's gear test week.
(Read more...)
Testers were on time this morning (surprisingly) after a small gathering last night that featured the reintroduction of the beermingo. It made for a quiet bus ride to Powder Mountain, which was enough proof that people were feeling the festivities from the night before. Tester Madison Gilmore says, "Between the chili and the 'mingo, my stomach is mad." But testers rallied—Mad Dog included—and unloaded skis and headed back into the storm that piled another five inches before noon.
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Tester Profile: After graduating from the University of Vermont, Hedda Peterson left the Green Mountains for longer runs in Crested Butte. She wound up here at Powder Mountain stuck with a bunch of rowdy tester much to her dismay. Even so, judging by the wide grin on her face, she is enjoying her time skiing between widely-spaced trees and blankets of snow. Below is a little insight on the infamous Ms. Peterson. (
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Dispatch Video: Day two of Gear Test Week was no let down. Once off the bus, skiers were welcomed with nearly a foot of snow from the night before. Here is a glimpse of how the team got after it. (
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Next to the doorway in the Hidden Lake bunker, there's a pair of the original K2 Xplorer. At 70-something underfoot the boards lean against the door of our gear storage shed unmounted. "I remember my first turns on this ski," says Brad "Bubba" Holden of his first powder skis. "I made six turns and when I got to the bottom everyone was freaking out." But today, we brought out next year's powder skis. And Bubba's favorite pair of the day? The G3 Empire 115 at 115cm underfoot.
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Tester Profile: Mark Rosenberg is a freshman tester they year, but that has not stopped him from getting his dance on during the annual "Progressive Party" or from making wide calculated turns on the slopes of Powder Mountain. Rosenberg has been photographed more times than Ron Jeremy this year. He's proven to be solid tester and dance queen.(
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Dispatch Video: The snow continues to pound Powder Mountain on day three of Gear Test Week. Skiers—once again—found sampled good snow between trees and on open runs. The psych level was high to say the least. (
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Tester Profile: Veteran tester Mindy Cupcake Gertrude Madeleine Mulliken will forever be remember for out dancing everyone on the dance floor during the last stop of this year's "Progressive Party." Not only did her dance moves dominate the party, she slashed the fresh slopes of Powder Mountain and she put the boys to shame when it came to taming the beermingo.
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Dispatch Video: While testers moved skis into the patrol hut on Powder Mountain and wrapped up day three, the snow began nuking the hills. When skiers unloaded the bus on day four of the ski test, the mountain was full of fresh snow and untracked slopes. Have a look at the carnage. (
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