Friends/Gear Links

The players change, but innovative, clean design and an emphasis on outdoor adventure remain the cornerstones of our business.

The UAC is the cornerstone of a complex Federal/State/County/non-profit partnership. Responsibility for forecasting, education, and awareness.

USA manufacturer and innovator of Voile backcountry split-boards, skis, telemark bindings, and avalanche shovels. Out Mission is to make the best and most innovative, simple to use, and reliable backcountry gear for split-boarding and skiing.

At BCA, our mission is to save lives, not just pump products. As a leader in our industry, we need to be responsible about sending people into the backcountry. They need to be equipped not just with products, but with education. That’s why we’ve invested so much in research and education.

Our mission is to share the fun of exploring Utah’s trails, rocks and waterways. We strive to provide valuable information, service and equipment based on our own first-hand experience in the outdoors. Wasatch Touring would like to promote a wider appreciation of, and a friendly respect for others, and for all of the outdoor places where we find adventure.

Our roots were simple but our vision was and still is clear; Backcountry.com is dedicated to being the best online retailer of the best built outdoor and backcountry gear on the planet. From the start our founders were intent on selling quality gear over the Web and what they found was that if the content is good and the products of the finest quality that people will come. If you’re as intense about your gear as you are about your adventures then you’re in the right store.

Marc Guido, our current editor and publisher, began First Tracks!! Online Ski Magazine in 1994, originally as an insider’s guide to Jay Peak ski resort in northern Vermont where he was serving at the time on the ski area’s patrol. Eighteen months later, upon leaving the Jay Peak patrol the website transformed into the global magazine format that exists today and is expanding into other snow sports e-zines as it morphs into First Tracks!! Online Media.

Urban Sherpa has quickly established itself as the preeminent single day trip adventure operator out of New York City. Urban Sherpa specializes in single-day trips, a necessity for our urban professional, whose time is measured, by helping to make the introductory enthusiast more confident or assisting the expert prepare for his or her next big adventure. Your Urban Sherpa knows when, where, and how and will get you there. Urban Sherpa will discover how to liven up your otherwise indoor lifestyle by reacquainting the outdoors and we aren’t just going to run down to the local park. It’s simple: Urban Sherpa has helped thrill seekers do just that, and we do it with an expected New York City flair.

Patagonia grew out of a small company that made tools for climbers. Alpinism remains at the heart of a worldwide business that still makes clothes for climbing – as well as for skiing, snowboarding, surfing, fly fishing, paddling and trail running. These are all silent sports. None requires a motor; none delivers the cheers of a crowd. In each sport, reward comes in the form of hard-won grace and moments of connection between us and nature.

Here at Black Diamond it’s all about climbing and skiing. We share the same experiences that you do on rock, ice and snow and these experiences push us to make the best gear possible for our worldwide family of climbers and skiers.

Our brand was founded by a group of passionate people, who on a shoe-string, believed anything is possible, and that anything worth pursuing in life required challenge. The time was NOW! They were in an industry of sameness with a herd mentality, it was time to challenge the way things were being done, a paradigm shift, time to shake it up, and get after it! They believed only through seeking out challenge can you truly achieve greatness in life and the people you serve. They rejected words & concepts like status quo, mundane, the way things are, you can’t do it that way, think realistically. It was time to do it differently, change the rules, because when you are like everyone, you are no one at all.