Top 9 Tips for Buying and Selling Gear at the Ski Swap Fall is here, and that means one thing: it’s ski swap season! Time to grab some new gear for cheap or turn last year’s setup into a stack of cash. Here are our expert tips on how to work the ski swap like a pro. Buying 1. Get there early. All the best deals will be gone in the first hour […] Gear Mike Lavery | September 24, 2025 0 Comments
What Even is a DIN Setting? For anyone who has rented or gotten skis mounted, odds are that you filled out a form asking some questions about your physical information. If you asked the teenager working the ski shop what it’s for, they would say, “It’s for the DIN.” then, stare blankly while you fill out the rest of the form. But what is a DIN […] Brains Miles Nagel | March 17, 2025 0 Comments
Why You Need to Get Your Backcountry Gear Now | Gear Shortages Possible When powder-coated lifts stopped spinning in the middle of last season, touring skins went like candy. As did touring bindings, beacons, probes, shovels, and all that is related to backcountry skiing/snowboarding, gear-wise. And industry professionals such as backcountry ski shop owners and avalanche forecasters expect it happen it all over again (the gear flying off store shelves, not the closing […] Backcountry Martin Kuprianowicz | August 26, 2020 2 Comments
Marker Drops New Duke PT Hybrid-Touring Binding The Duke PT is Marker’s latest hybrid-freeski binding with a convertible toepiece that allows for both pintech touring capabilities and alpine-certified downhill skiing. The Duke PT will rival similar products from binding manufacturers like Salomon, Atomic, and Armada. Developed in cooperation with Marker’s freeride athletes, the binding is being offered in both a 12 and 16 DIN variation. Related: The […] Industry News SnowBrains | November 6, 2019 0 Comments
Dynafit Is Majorly Extending Protection For Pin Bindings Dynafit is majorly extending its bindings warranty starting this winter. The ski manufacturer is extending its tech-binding warranty from two to ten years. (Warranties from other manufacturers range from one to three years.) The brand is calling the new policy a lifetime warranty, referring to the expected decade-long lifetime of the product. It will apply to bindings purchased during or after the 2019–20 season. Related: SKI […] Gear SnowBrains | October 16, 2019 0 Comments
The Crossover Ski System – One Binding for your Whole Quiver [arve url="https://player.vimeo.com/video/263276379?api=1&player_id=vimeoPlayer&title=0&byline=0&portrait=0&autoplay=0"] Mike Lavery | May 4, 2018 101 Likes 1 Tweet 0 Comments
Marker Stops Selling Kingpin Binding After G3 Sues Just like most other kingpins, the law is shutting down the Marker Kingpin Binding. It is the first tech binding to have a lateral heel release and provides unmatched heel retention for a tech binding. It has quickly become one of the most popular touring bindings on the market. On December 15, 2015, G3 filed a civil lawsuit claiming that Marker had infringed […] Industry News Jake Rubnitz | June 30, 2017 0 Comments
2016 LOOK Pivot 18 Ski Binding Gear Review The Look Pivot has been a favorite amongst ski racers, mogul skiers, freeriders, and park rats for quite some time now.It was one of the first releasable ski bindings developed and hasn’t changed much since the 1990s.Similar to modern snowshoes, ski bindings initially consisted of a cable that held the boot in place.At that time, a skier had a 1% chance of injuring himself in a day and 10% of skiers got injured within one season.There was a design push for a safer binding and in 1948 Jean Beyl, a sporting goods manufacturer out of Never’s France invented the first binding with elastic travel. Gear Liza Sarychev | January 14, 2016 1 Comment
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