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Best Ski and Snowboard Gear for 2025, tested and reviewed.
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Whether you’ll be practicing your turns on the blues or dropping into Corbet’s Couloir, the finest ski gear within your budget is always a wise investment. 

Men's Journal Ski Awards: We Tested the Best Ski and Snowboard Gear of 2024-2025

We used and abused 100 pieces of ski and snowboard gear. Here are the skis, boots, jackets, helmets, goggles, and more our experts are raving about.

The best ski and snowboard gear keeps getting sturdier, lighter, safer, and more technically advanced. Thing is, there's a lot of it. We’re here to help you cut through the chatter—and pick your perfect ski and snowboard kit from head to toe. 

The 2024-25 Men’s Journal Ski Awards is a comprehensive guide to all things skiing and snowboarding. Nine testers put in more than 1,000 on-snow days to test an exhaustive amount of gear. Most have been testing apparel and gear for over 20 ski seasons. We’ve skied New England and Eastern Canadian hardpack, Whistler powder, Pacific Northwest cement, and everything in between, including months in the French, Italian, and Swiss Alps. Our testers have visited more than two dozen ski resorts in every condition imaginable, and skied plenty of peaks, steep slopes, and couloirs. Our combined ski history spans more than 100 years of high-level race and big-mountain experience.