Outside

Save the paper-thin foam pads and highly compressible sleeping bags for the backcountry. Car camping is your chance to bring the comforts of home with you—like a warm, feature-packed, luxurious sleep setup.

Outside

Stooping in a lightweight, minimalist backpacking tent while camping out of your car isn’t much fun. Neither is getting blown over in a flimsy big-box store shelter. Fortunately, there are car camping tents designed for families who prioritize spaciousness, convenience, and storm-worthiness above all else. We tested 29 different tents and found seven options that had us lounging in comfort and style no matter what conditions rolled through the campground.

Backcountry Magazine

Ettore Personnettaz knows better than most the risks of playing in the mountains. He also knows how much they can give. In Italy's sleepy Aosta Valley, Splitboard Day brings community together through those magical moments shared in the mountains with the help, of course, of good food.

Backcountry Magazine

Elena Hight comes into view atop a pyramid of pillows in Revelstoke’s Montana Bowl. The mob of spectators below is buzzing. There’s no easy exit for the former halfpipe competitor and two-time Olympian, who needs to stomp this qualifying run to make finals day of the 2025 Natural Selection Tour.

Gaia GPS

Beyond the boundaries of ski resorts, untouched powder and the promise of adventure beckon skiers, snowboarders, snowmobilers, mountaineers, and hikers into the backcountry. However, traveling in the backcountry is not without risk—25-30 people die in avalanches each year in the United States alone.

Forbes

If you’re a skier or snowboarder with social media, chances are your feed is overflowing with Japan content. Mine certainly is. As evidenced by the nonstop digital deluge of nipple-deep powder turns and artsy vending machine shots, the world-renowned powder hub has never been more popular. Unfortunately, as more and more powderhounds descend upon the Land of the Rising Sun, scoring your dream trip is a little trickier these days. Fortunately, you’re in the right place to navigate the madness.

Outside

Korua Shapes cult-classic, medium-stiff Transition Finder hasn’t been updated since the German board-builder shaved down the taper to boost all-mountain freestyle and switch-riding capabilities in 2022. Thank heavens. Our test team sends its sincerest gratitude: we’re card-carrying members of the cult. I personally spent six weeks in Hokkaido testing the current version of the Transition Finder over the last two winters, and I can attest that it’s the perfect all-mountain board as is.

Whitelines Snowboarding

On March 14th and 15th, British Columbia’s Revelstoke became the rumbling epicenter of snowboarding. More specifically, Travis Rice’s Natural Selection Tour streamed two live days of off-the-Richter riding on the flanks of Revelstoke Mountain Resort. Like grinding tectonic plates forming mountains out of thin air, NST–and this NST event in particular, what many in attendance called the best one yet–raised and altered the landscape of backcountry freestyle riding and snowboarding in general.

SKI

There’s nothing worse than touching down in your dream destination only to find your beloved skis mangled by baggage handlers, or lugging wheel-less, 51-pound ski bags through customs while drenched in sweat, the shoulder strap cutting off circulation to your arm (such torture belongs in Dante’s fifth circle of hell).

Clearly, we’re still working through some travel-related trauma. To help you avoid these common speed bumps on your next ski trip, we’ve pulled together our favorite ski bags and ski boot bags, each one tested and approved by our storm-chasing testers.