5 Gadgets for Skiing

Next time you go to the slopes be sure to carry all the gear you need, and no it doesn´t stop at ABS bags and probes, you can actually make your skiing trip a lot more fun by having some cool gadgets, from cameras to film your turns to the right headphones to keep the music going, here are our 5 favorite pieces of tech to carry up the mountain.

Drones

Drones are becoming more popular by the day, with prices ranging from next to nothing to several thousands. Most drones being produced and sold nowadays come with integrated cameras making them excellent for recording your greatest turns and jumps during that extreme backcountry session. Our pick for a ski drone is the DroneX Pro from Hyperstech, this is a small and highly portable drone, with great battery life, easy to use with their proprietary app and quite a decent camera for the price tag. Check it here.

Cameras

Being able to enjoy a day skiing and building memories to be shared later is amazing, and being capable of appreciating the beauty of a snow covered mountain in the moment without worries is the best feeling ever. But let's be serious what good is killing it out there in the snow if there is no one to see it. Drones allow for birds eye views of your trip, but head mounted cameras allow for a more “up, close and personal” perspective. GoPro still dominates this market, but which go pro is the best? we choose the GoPro Hero 7, being affordable, ultra durable and having a lot of accessories available to help you in filming great videos on the go.

Smartwatches

Smartwatches not only allow you to keep track of time out in the slopes but most come with added benefits of tracking your runs, your vitals, altitude, temperature and other important information when skiing, additionally some could even be used to communicate with other team members on the fly. Our pick here is the FitBit Versa, it has a sleek look that can be customized to any taste, a large feature list including altimeter, heart rate monitor, oxygen tracker and GPS; all of which are essential for a powderhound.

Touch screen gloves

Now that we mentioned smartwatches, they all come with capacitive touchscreens nowadays, and that requires using fingertips in order to use them, which in turn means having to take off and put on your gloves every time you want to check messages, start a countdown or see your vitals. Or it would be, were it not for Ski Gloves with touch screen fingertips, that allow you to use any touch device without having to expose your hand to the cold weather. Our pick in this category is the Andorra Men's C-100, they are modern and stylish, with additional functionality, very warm and really cheap. If you don't like the look, Andorra offers many other models with more classic or estilized looks.

Headphones

While it may be tempting to get some wireless or bluetooth connected earbuds, we wholeheartedly recommend using wired ones, just so if they slip out during a particularly rough turn they can remain safely tethered to you via the wires. Our pick are the Bose Soundsport headphones, they have good wire length, excellent sound quality, ear clips for better adjustment and big controls for easy use when wearing gloves, plus they can come optimized for Samsung or Apple devices, and are highly customizable thanks to their many ear holders included in every package, no matter what your ear looks like, they will fit.

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