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Every dispatch, filed from the lift line since November 2014.
A weekly read for riders who plan their weeks around the next storm. Conditions from forty resorts, three RDC-verified gear picks, and a short letter from the editor — delivered every Wednesday at 6 a.m. Mountain Time.
Recent Issues
The last four Wednesdays, in order.
Every issue is the same shape: a conditions desk, a single RDC-tested gear pick, one short technique note, and the editor's letter. Browse a sample, then decide whether a weekly inbox slot is worth it.
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The 2025 splitboard field, after 1,200 days of testing.
We rank every production splitboard we rode this winter — sixteen boards, four bindings, six skins — and explain why the lightest board in the test isn't the one we'd recommend to most readers.
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Hokkaido is having a January-in-March kind of week.
A 48 cm storm, stable base, and the kind of tree skiing that reminds you why you fly eleven hours. Plus: which Niseko side-country gates are open and which are still closed for avy control.
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Why we stopped ranking boots on stiffness alone.
An RDC re-test of twelve 2025 men's boots after a 60-day break-in. The mid-flex underdog scored higher than the stiffest boot in the field — and three testers bought it on the way home.
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The case for riding a softer board in your thirties.
A short editor's letter on why the high-performance flex ratings of your twenties don't always match what your knees want at 33 — and three boards we'd ride instead this season.
By the numbers
What subscribers actually get on Wednesday morning.
- Boards tested under the RDC
- 1,800+
- Countries covered on-snow
- 27
- Editorial certifications on staff
- 23
- Newsletter signups served
- 1.2M
Every board ridden a minimum of 25 days before a score is filed.
From Hokkaido and Laax to Jackson Hole and Niseko — across four continents.
AASI snowboard and AIARE Level 1+ avalanche credentials across 14 editors.
Across the past 36 months, from riders in 41 countries.
Excerpt · Issue No. 252, March 5, 2025
There is a temptation, every February, to declare the season over. The base thins in the Rockies, the calendar thins in the Alps, and the gear catalogs are already selling next winter. Resist it. The splitboard we rode last Saturday in 38 cm of Wasatch cement was the most honest test of the year — the kind of conditions that expose a board's spine, and the kind of riding that exposes a publication. We don't write this newsletter from a desk in March. We write it from the parking lot, with wet gloves on the dashboard and a notebook full of things the catalog doesn't tell you.
The Weekly Snow Report
Every Wednesday. Conditions, RDC picks, the editor's letter.
One email, filed from a lift line. No roundups, no SEO filler, no affiliate links in the body copy. Written by a 14-person editorial crew — nine of whom hold AIARE Level 1+ avalanche certifications — for intermediate-to-expert riders who plan their week around the next storm.
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- Filed Every Wednesday, 6 a.m. MT
- Written by 14 editors · 9 AIARE-certified
- Cited by The New York Times, Outside, Gear Patrol