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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.

Are you ready to get pumped? The Airblaster Ninja Suit is back for another year of making long underwear cool. Airblaster uses a few weights of polyester so you can dial the suit whether you live on the East Coast or in Utah. Rock it solo for Halloween if you think you look big enough to stay out of fights.

Made for polar travel, the British Brenig Polar Smock is a snug-fitting jacket custom made to your measurements for about $540. The close fit allows moisture to pass through the Pertex shell, and the baby-clothes-looking-bottom-hem lets you tuck it in so you get the benefits of a one-piece suit without actually wearing one. Of course, then you have to be a guy who tucks his jacket in, which is really worse than being the guy in a one-piece. Unless you have freakishly weird measurements, stick with Arc’teryx for this winter.

Though the utility of RECCO reflectors is debatable, no one will argue too much if they want to give away a week-long heli trip in BC. All you need to do is be their monkey-boy and jump through a few hoops before you can enter. You need to get a copy of their Avalanche White Book from a Quiksilver store or RECCO’s website, and then you need to pass their 11 question quiz at recco.com—don’t worry, you don’t need to know dates.

via Snowboard-Mag.

If I’d seen these Flashing LED Glasses on a guy in the street, I would have simply looked for a staircase to push him down. As it happens, I was driving and saw someone running at night with them. I hopped the curb and had him between my headlights, but the flashing lights must not have affected his peripheral vision as much as I had anticipated, because he managed to dive out of the way. I just wanted to tell him, “Buddy, there are better ways to be visible while running at night than these awful glasses.” Even lighting yourself on fire or attaching a blaze orange safety flag to your hat would be a reasonable alternative.

The 180S Convertible Running Gloves let you adjust your hand insulation for cold weather running. A retractable windproof hood tucks away after your warm-up to prevent your hands from stewing in sweat. The best part is that if the whole running in winter thing doesn’t workout, these will work great for smoking cigarettes outside this winter.