Mammut

As every year, PowderGuide is once again reporting on the new products from our partners at ISPO 2014. Some of the products have already been presented in the other articles, but in three parts we will once again go into detail about the new products from our partners. The first part is about new products from Mammut, Arc'teryx, G3, Evoc, Bergans and Diamir. Whether it's detailed ski mountaineering pants, light and heavy down clothing, various PinTech bindings or backpacks and ski clothing for ski touring, all the new products are well thought out and developed to a high standard. Enjoy reading and look forward to your next winter shopping trip...

One focus of ISPO reporting this year is, of course, the development of the market for safety and emergency equipment. The most important part of our multi-part ISPO special comes at the end: Here you'll find what's new in safety equipment.

The PG team has also explored the fashion facets of the world's biggest sporting goods fair for you. It goes without saying that the style factor naturally carries much more weight here than in other areas. Nevertheless, we also focused on function when it came to clothing. To cut a long story short: here you'll find the latest clothing innovations that won't let you down off the slopes and in the park and, ideally, will also make you look good.

Mammut has discovered that parts of the batches 12/12 & 03/13 of the newly developed "RescYou" crevasse rescue device may fail.

Removable airbag systems allow expensive avalanche airbag systems to be inexpensively swapped between different backpack models, so that you are optimally equipped for more situations on the mountain for an acceptable additional cost. One such backpack that is ready to accommodate an R.A.S. - Removable Airbag System is the Mammut Pro R.A.S. ready.

Slowly, all those involved have recovered from the after-effects of Ispo 2013. Some suffered from the well-known post-Ispo flu (mostly caused by an overload of the "I want to have" center in the freerider brain) and others had thick thighs because there was so much Canadian-light powder snow to track after the majority of potential trackers preferred to stay in the post-Ispo flu-infected exhibition halls in Munich. We take advantage of the calmed waters and present the new products from the PG partner forges.

The Mammut Freeride line has long impressed with its functional 3-layer Gore-Tex Soft Shell clothing. The Alagna pants are no exception

Avalanche airbags are now regarded as useful additional safety equipment. The 2012/13 market overview will help you decide.

The Barryvox Element is the new entry-level device in Mammut's Barryvox series and therefore the little brother of the Barryvox Pulse, so to speak. PowderGuide Japan correspondent Patrick Fux tested the avalanche transceiver in practice between North America, the Swiss Alps and deep Japanese powder.

A lot has happened on the avalanche airbag market. And that's a good thing! In addition to ABS, airbag backpacks are now also available from BCA, Mammut and Snowpulse. The latter have aroused the interest of our tester German Wehinger. He puts his Snowpulse Lifebag under the freeride test magnifying glass.

"Go out and Ride" is the motto of the third competition phase of Mountain Mastery 2012. Or to put it another way: Thinking is silver, freeride tours in powder are gold! In this competition phase, the 13 teams still in the title race will put their theoretical knowledge into practice.

PowderGuide is very fortunate to work with many of the best and most respected mountain sports companies that produce high-quality freeride and touring equipment. In the partner special, we would therefore like to present or recommend one of our partners' top products for winter 2012/2013.