If you've ever tried to ski or snowboard in regular goggles while wearing prescription glasses, you already know the pain: pinched temples, constant fogging, and lenses that refuse to sit in front of your eyes. OTG (Over-The-Glasses) snow goggles are built specifically to fix that problem. They're engineered with extra interior volume, foam temple cutouts, […]

Our team spent the past two winters testing the best snow chains for tires across real mountain passes, iced-over parking lots, and a 12-mile gravel road loop that gets buried under two feet of snow every January. We logged over 280 miles of chained driving in temperatures ranging from 8°F to 28°F. We timed installs […]

Shoveling season hit my driveway last November and I started the hunt for the best heated driveway mats before the first real storm. Like many homeowners in the snow belt, I had been paying close to $1,000 a year for plowing services that took one or two days to arrive after a storm. After three […]

Snow starts falling at 4 a.m. and by sunrise the walkway is a skating rink. Every winter, more than one million Americans end up in the ER after a slip-and-fall on icy steps, and homeowners in snowy regions spend anywhere from $500 to $1,500 a year on shoveling and plowing services. One Reddit user summed […]

Last winter our team spent three months testing the best roof rakes for snow across two single-story homes, a two-story colonial, and a low-slope garage in northern Wisconsin. We cleared more than 4 ft of fresh and packed snow across asphalt shingles, standing-seam metal, and a small solar array - and we lost count of […]

Last February I drove four hours to my family's off-grid cabin in the Adirondacks. The walk up to the front door took 45 minutes through two feet of wet, heavy snow because the snow blower we'd been relying on for eight seasons refused to start. That weekend taught me more about buying snow blowers for […]

Last winter, I watched my neighbor drag a cracked foam saucer back up the hill four times before it split in half. Her eight-year-old ended up in tears, she ended up with a trash bag of plastic shards, and the only thing either of them wanted to know was this: which kids toboggan actually survives […]

If you have ever lost a cheap pool-toy tube to a single stick on the first run, you already know why finding the best snow tubes for sledding matters more than any other piece of winter gear. I have spent the past three winters testing more than two dozen tubes with my family across packed […]

Telemark skiing is absolutely still a thing, and finding the best telemark bindings in is harder than ever because the category has split into three distinct ecosystems: NTN for active releasable performance, 75mm duckbill for traditional cable setups, and TTS tech-toe bindings for uphill efficiency. After spending the last two seasons rotating six of the […]

I have spent the last four seasons logging over 200,000 vertical feet on everything from mellow spring corn tours to steep mid-winter couloirs, and the binding you choose quietly decides how every one of those days feels. A binding that is too heavy turns a routine approach into a slog, while a binding that is […]