You learn quite a bit from listening to your students in avalanche classes or seeing their reactions to what you teach. Students don’t see terrain in the same way that I do. Situational awareness in avalanche terrain comes from years of training and exper

The Arctic Cat Alpha One M8000 has captured our admiration as it has conquered deep snow terrain in just a short period of time. Although at first glance it resembles basically any other snowmobile on the market, there are three powerful features that hav

It was obvious when Polaris began its 2022 mountain sled introduction that they were setting the table for something big. Their presentation started in a very calculated manner, first touching on the evolution of its purpose-built mountain sleds going bac

Yamaha’s commitment to 4-stroke technology has created a performance trail market that molds power and performance with comfort and handling. When it comes to constant-changing snow conditions, the Sidewinder X-TX 146 may just be the flagship of the 4-st

Perhaps one of the tougher decisions for aggressive terrain riders is whether to stay committed to the deep snow characteristics of a mountain sled or give in to the mogul-pounding benefits of a trail sled

How often do we spend hours agonizing over minor decisions when regardless of the choice we’re going to be perfectly content? Well this is the situation if you’re trying to decide whether to purchase a Ski-Doo MXZ or Ski-Doo Renegade.

Just like putting chocolate on peanut butter, Ski-Doo engineers sometimes like to take features from one platform and put them on another. That’s what they did with the Backcountry and MXZ.

Every year about 100,000 avalanches sweep down mountains across the United States, damaging everything in their path and killing 28 people on average.

It’s all about the math. Some like more, some like less—more power, less weight. How about more suspension, more durability, more track, more track speed, more paddles, less trenching, less effort, less cost and less weight? Sometimes you can’t have both