Black Diamond Xenic Brakes

Available from Cripple Creek Backcountry when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

Among the reasons to install brakes on your favorite touring skis? You're standing atop that ridgeline and you set your ski down to click in, only to watch your ski disappear down the couloir. Brakes would have helped! You bring your favorite touring skis to the resort, but every time you load the gondola, you have to unclip your leashes. Brakes would have helped! You're skiing in the backcountry safely without leashes but a freak piece of avalanche debris knocks your ski off and you watch it ca