Mountain Hardwear’s most backcountry touring-friendly GORE-TEX kit gets a facelift for 2025, and we love the minimalist fit and feel for big human-powered days in the mountains.

While jackets always get a well-deserved amount of scrutiny, we think that ski pants need to be taken more seriously. Not only do pants get the most abuse of your kit (aside from your skis), you ...

Our favorite backcountry bibs are the Mountain Hardwear High Exposure, made with GORE-TEX C-Knit for awesome breathability. For 2025 they’ve been updated with GORE-TEX ePE, a more sustainable ...

Gore C5 Gore-Tex Infinium Bib Shorts. The Infinium bib shorts ticks all the boxes for bib shorts with a properly placed dense pad, soft front Windstopper cup, small strips on the bib straps to keep ...

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The black material is a rippling, supple fabric you'd expect to see in a yoga studio that stretches smooth with little effort. Unlike the first pair of sensuous stretch pants introduced to the world ...

Engineed with 2L Gore-Tex and 45g of Vertical X insulation that’s 85 percent recycled, these pants are for your next resort day. If you do venture beyond the norm, you’ll appreciate the dedicated ...

In the U.S., for instance, Sierra Trading Post (www.sierratradingpost.com) has The North Face’s Nuptse Gore-Tex bibs on sale for $230, down from a regular price of $335.

I couldn't imagine skiing in deep powder or mountaineering in anything but reinforced, technically oriented Gore-Tex bibs. Have bibs gone the way of the one-piece 1970s ski suit?