Arc’teryx will open its first retail store in a few days in Montreal, Quebec. The store will be in the Ste-Catherine Street and knowing French will make it much easier to find. It should be a pretty cool store, too bad it’s all the way up in America Lite.
via Ski Press World.
Burton and Volvo teamed up to make this concept snowboarding car—they even superimposed a couple snowboards onto the roof. This Volvo C30 will have an LED-lined cargo compartment with integrated storage for boots, boards, and helmets. The interior has a camo theme that won’t be cool anymore in a couple years. Hopefully the snowboard-storage pieces in the truck come out so you can drive it during the 8 months of the year you’re not snowboarding.
via Snowboard-Mag.
The Fox Portage hydration backpack is—as the name implies—a big hauler for riding or skiing. A couple design moves make this thing worthwhile: First, Fox uses waterproof zippers which keep out snow in winter and prevent condensation on the reservoir from soaking your electronics during summer. Second, the helmet carry system is removable—90% of the time you’re wearing the helmet so these things are a waste of time.
via bike magic.
If you ever need the Outdoor Research WS Gorilla Balaclava then you’re either in weather too cold to stay outside, or you’re making a really lame movie you’ll want to show me later. It’s not that I don’t want to see your bank-robbing-ninja movie, it’s just that I don’t want to pretend that I liked it. Anyway, OR cuts the Gorilla Balaclava from Gore WindStopper, but the really ingenious part is the face mask. When it’s all covered in snotcicles and you want to eat a chocolate bar, you don’t need to shove it in the snotty mouth hole—just lift the whole thing up and eat it with your frozen-snot-covered mittens.
I’m not sure if any ski companies still make these odd fetish Ski Girl posters anymore, but SkiNet.com was nice enough to take a look back at the Lange Girl posters. It’s kind of an interesting retrospective of sexism and sweet ski boots. The one of the woman in the Indian headdress offends even me.
