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Summer Rewind: Cool off alongside Jiberish and friends with “A Walk in the Park” www.TRUCKgloves.com - Direct-to-Consumer brand offering the best skiing, biking and lifestyle handwear at the most affordable prices. DISTINCTIVE GLOVES / DISRUPTIVE PRICES . . . As the late June sun relentlessly beats down on us cold weather favoring individuals, it’s easy for the mind to long for a different kind of heat. Obviously I’m talking about the type of heat thrown down on hot laps with a brisk breeze whistling across the white-cased ground. While the chill of winter can be foreboding in the moment, when we’re without it, it can be as nostalgic a memory as any. What better way to backtrack into colder moments...

Is This The Best Trail In The Alps? | EWS Val Di Fassa Trentino Queen Stage Headcam www.TRUCKgloves.com - Direct-to-Consumer brand offering the best skiing, biking and lifestyle handwear at the most affordable prices. DISTINCTIVE GLOVES / DISRUPTIVE PRICES . . . Featured as the Queen Stage of the first round of 2021's EWS season, Tutti Frutti might just be the best trail in the Alps. Beginning on an exposed ridgeline with stunning views across the Dolomite region, the trail drops into the treeline after a couple of punchy climbs as the surface changes from loose, to hard-packed clay, to fresh-cut loam. Before more short, sharp climbs and a trail centre style traverse delivers riders to two final switchbacks and...

The FIFTY returns after a season-long hiatus www.TRUCKgloves.com - Direct-to-Consumer brand offering the best skiing, biking and lifestyle handwear at the most affordable prices. DISTINCTIVE GLOVES / DISRUPTIVE PRICES . . . The unlikely face of ski mountaineering is back, and he’s wearing a mustache. After no word from Cody Townsend for months except for a few cryptic social media posts, the former heli-jock turned sufferfester and his much-beloved show, The FIFTY returns. His newest YouTube entry is a quick update. It’s worth sharing, however because Townsend includes a montage of rad clips. There are enormous vistas, terrible storms, and new guests (we spy Alex Honnold—or is it Honnlove ?) and Hilaree Nelson returns. So buckle in, folks, we’re in...

[The Gear Closet] Essential gear for the ultimate car camping getaway www.TRUCKgloves.com - Direct-to-Consumer brand offering the best skiing, biking and lifestyle handwear at the most affordable prices. DISTINCTIVE GLOVES / DISRUPTIVE PRICES . . . What do a heatwave battering the western United States and a flash flood in the desert have in common? We all want to get to higher ground, ASAP. Whether you’re facing a work week at home without AC or just the dolldrums of early summer, we can bet that your brain is kicking into trip planning mode. If you’re already using Gaia to search for backcountry meadows with adequate snowmelt drainages, you can probably ignore this post. But if your idea of a good...

Submit your entry for the LINE Skis Summer Rail Challenge 2021 www.TRUCKgloves.com - Direct-to-Consumer brand offering the best skiing, biking and lifestyle handwear at the most affordable prices. DISTINCTIVE GLOVES / DISRUPTIVE PRICES . . . Grab your friends, your floppiest skis, and a camera and raid your nearest construction site. Well, don’t do that, but go to your local hardware store and buy as much PVC as you can because your backyard setup could win this year’s LINE Summer Rail Challenge. Created by Kevin Salonius, this is the 6th year of the summer’s best video contest. Some of last year’s entries were ridiculously creative, like this one with a full on fern powder segment . So the bar is...