Good Ski Guide

Helly Hansen 2010/11 winter collection boast innovation, style and performance whether you’re hitting the piste scaling the mountains or soaking up the winter air.

The Enigma Flow Down jacket and pant

Warm and light, the Enigma combines quality insulation, with good breathability. £500

This year our safety expert Chris Exall has reviewed ski and boot tests from around the world; from Ski, Skiing and Powder in the USA, Skipress and Ski Canada, Sporttest from Austria and France’s Skieur Magazine.

Here’s our medal-winning gear for 2010.

When I was asked if I wanted to review the latest all-singing all-dancing digital transceiver from Mammut, my first reaction was "not really". I have been a happy and satisfied user of Ortovox analogue transceivers for close on twenty years and subscribe to the view that the most important aspect of any avalanche transceiver is that you are familiar with it and practise regularly with it. On second thoughts, however, I had heard very good reports of this particular model so agreed to test it.

SnoKart joined forces with the Good Ski Guide this season for the Great Ski Race, providing the luggage for the Good Ski Guide endurance Team, who successfully skied 10 countries in Europe in 5 days.

The Good Ski Guide endurance team were proud to be supported by Armada during the Great Ski Race, and used the Armada AR6 to ski 10 countries in Europe in 5 days. The team put the skis through their paces on slopes from Milton Keynes to Liechtenstein to Austria, Slovenia and Poland. So what did they think of the skis?