Outdoor Retailer Winter Market 2010

The Trailspace team (Alicia, Tom, and Bill) is in Salt Lake City exploring the gear celebration that is Outdoor Retailer Winter Market. It's the world’s largest outdoor gear industry gathering, with more than 700 outdoor brands—from old reliables to hot young things—and 20,000 attendees.

We'll bring you coverage from the pre-show mountain demo day (Wednesday, January 20) at Snowbasin Resort, through four straight days of gear announcements and launches, demonstrations, and events (January 21-24). Subscribe to our blog and news RSS feeds for real-time updates of our daily show coverage, and follow our tweets from the show floor on Twitter.

Post-OR Coverage

• Personal locator beacons in the backcountry: ACR, Spot, and responsible usage
• Footbeds and Insoles: Superfeet, OrthoSole, Thinsulate
• Avalanche airbags: Stay on top with avalanche airbag packs from Snowpulse, Backcountry Access, and ABS
• Three-antenna avalanche beacons: Backcountry Access, Ortovox, and Pieps
• Solar power in small packages: Brunton, FTL Solar, Highgear, and SolarFocus
• Brunton Flip N' Drip: It's a flippin' outdoor coffee maker
• What's your blood oxygen level?: Fingertip pulse oximeters come to the mountains
• Safety on the mountains...and roads

Sunday, January 24, Day Four

• Nite Ize KnotBone: Adjustable bungees
• New snowshoes for winter 2010/11
• More scenes from the showroom floor

Saturday, January 23, Day Three

• Outdoor trend alert: Baselayers, socks, zone/core comfort, aluminum, and the '80s
• Therm-a-Rest RidgeRest Solar: 13 percent warmer
• Columbia Omni-Heat: Like wearing a space blanket
• Knives, watches, and more: Victorinox, Wenger, Timex, Suunto, Therm-a-Rest, SPOT, eVent,

Friday, January 22, Day Two

• Snapshots from the show: Cathole trowels, insulation, fingerprint recognition, fragrant knives, and more

• Klymit NobleTek: Insulating skiers and riders with noble gasses
• Thinnest extreme suit for Everest: The 3-millimeter thick Champion Super Suit

• Snowshoes: Rising popularity with athletes and weekend adventurers

Thursday, January 21, Day One

• CamelBak hydration: PowderBak vest and Roulette and Pit Boss backcountry winter packs
• Coghlan's and Industrial Revolution: Small-company ingenuity rises again.
• Wicking cotton, Gorillapods, and gear advice: PolarMax, Joby, and Kahtoola
• Canada Goose: High-end maker of down jackets has a new hybrid on its hands
• Ready for their close-ups: Snapshots from Outdoor Retailer 2010
• The all-in-one TentPak: A grab-and-go tent-pack combo

Wednesday, January 20, All Mountain Demo

• All Mountain Demo Day: Rossignol skis, Leki Speedlock, Mountain Hardwear gloves and heated clothes, Columbia heated boots, and Clif treats
• Snow Cave Slackline: Gibbon shows us how it's done
• All Season Kilt: Utilikilts for snowshoeing
• Snowshoes: Stomping through snow on the latest from Atlas, Crescent Moon, Easton, and Tubbs, plus Kahtoola and MSR
• Outdoor Retailer: All Mountain Demo Day (part 2): Salomon and Black Diamond skis, Dynafit, and Thinsulate

Pre-OR Coverage

• OR Day Minus-2: Bill makes it to Salt Lake City
• Pre-show blog: Sifting wheat from chaff
• DeLorme Earthmate PN-60w with SPOT Satellite Communicator: Send text messages from (almost) anywhere on earth
• Cycle Dog: The golden age of the bottle opener