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California Resorts Receive Safety Impact Award From The National Ski Areas Association

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California took top honors for the National Ski Areas Association’s inaugural Saftey Impact Award. The Mountain Saftey Guide that Ski California released this past winter is what prompted the creation of this new award and earned the state’s ski resorts the number one spot. Skiing and Riding are inherently dangerous activities and many casual ski area visitors are not fully aware of […]
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The Top 10 Award-Winning Ski/Snowboard Gear of 2015:

This Fall, we rounded up the award winning ski and snowboard gear of 2015. We wanted to give our viewers one place to find all of 2015’s most highly praised gear. We called it TOP GUN. We’ve now gone through all the award winning gear we could find and we want to show the best award winning piece of gear from each category: The Best of TOP GUN 2015. Below you’ll find the best award winning gear from the following 9 categories: Powder Skis, All-Mountain Skis, Women’s Skis, Ski Bindings, Ski Boots, Snowboards, Snowboard Boots, Goggles, and Ski Jackets. OnTheSnow.com gave their Editors’ Choice Award to 5 powder skis this year, […]
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TOP GUN: The 2 Award Winning Snowboard Boots of 2015

2015 K2 Maysis Snowboard boots

Nothing beats a powder day on a snowboard. Slashes, cutbacks, floaters, ollies, and pig-dogs. Powder on a snowboard is nothing but pure pleasure. Snowboarding has been given a lot of the credit for the new freeskiing movement. Snowboarding influenced freeskiing’s style, tricks, and ski shapes and it’s true. Snowboarding has always been progressive and cutting edge and it’s made everyone better as it rolls along. The snowboard boots listed below will help snowboarding continue to influence and up the ante of the snow sliding world. […]
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TOP GUN: The 3 Award Winning Goggles of 2015

2015 Smith I/O 7 Goggle

Goggles are one of the most important pieces of gear in skiing and riding. Without good goggles, you aren’t seeing as well as you potentially could and if your vision isn’t as good as it could be, your riding won’t be as good as it could be. So clearly, you want good goggles. Goggles are also the single biggest cool factor in skiing and riding. A sharp pair of goggles will get you a lot of fun comments on the hill and make you look like you know what you’re doing. There’s something exciting and mysterious about mirrored goggles, isn’t there. It’s like that guy/gal knows something that you don’t… […]
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TOP GUN: The 4 Award Winning Women’s Skis of 2015

2015 DPS Yvette 112 RP.2

In case you haven’t noticed it yet, girls are different than boys. Thank god. Not only are they better looking and smarter, but they ski different, move different, and are built different. For years, the ski industry tried to address these differences by painting pretty pictures on men’s skis and calling them women’s skis. That didn’t work. Now, some actual science has come into this and women’s skis have evolved brilliantly. Women’s skis now have women specific flex patterns, shapes, and sizes. All this adds up to women’s skis that help women rip even harder than ever before. […]
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Jeremy Jones to Meet With President To Discuss Climate Change & Accept Award

Squaw Valley professional big mountain snowboarder Jeremy Jones will be meeting with president Obama in the White House this week where he’ll deliver a letter signed by 75 high profile professional skiers that asks the President to push climate change legislation. “This is probably the best opportunity we’ve had to put the winter-sports community front and center with policy makers […]
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