

There is innovation in other areas of the ski touring industry, but the overwhelming focus that I’m picking up on is that Freeride is IN. General Ski Theme for 2021/22Ģ021 is the Year of Freeride. We can still speculate about new gear and tag our first impression on What Hot and What’s Not. There will be no arbitrary ski flexing, no rubbing new-age fabrics between our fingers or on our faces, and no tinkering with tools we don’t even have names for. Our correspondence with outdoor brands is on-going, and largely consists of emails and zoom calls.Ī product of these E-interactions is that we don’t get to compulsively fondle gear.

We’re not quite sure what that means either, but we respect the energy that Outdoor Retailer Winter Online put into the online event. 2021 is a fresh start and what better/base of a way to move forward than by checking what’s new in the world of ski touring?ĭue to limitations around large-scale gatherings (like a packed Denver conference center), OR 2021 went virtual. 2020 was a dynamic year (is that an understatement?*).

The QST 98 has all the added technologies of the BLANK, but in a more digestible 98 mm waist width.Īnother lap around the sun and another Outdoor Retailer.
