For a more robust holiday gift guide, please visit The Avant Ski for their reviews of the best holiday gifts for skiers and snowboarders. 

 

 

THE MOST ENTERTAINING HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE FOR SKIERS AND SNOWBOARDERS

This is a fully independent, non-sponsored, heavily biased gift guide for those looking for the perfect holiday gift for your skiing and snowboarding loved ones. Share it to your Instagram and then follow and tag @skittenzmittens and we will give you a sweet discount. 

1. Snow - Flush an ice cube down the toilet, turn your pajamas inside out, and sleep with a spoon under your pillow—pro tips told by most in-the-know grom rippers on how to summon snow for this winter season. But seriously—plant a tree, take a cold shower, reduce, reuse, recycle. Or donate to Protect Our Winters (POW) in your giftee’s name. 

 

 

2. Skittenz - Perhaps the best invention since the Pizza Pocket Hoodie. These skins slide over your mittens or gloves. Trail Map Skittenz are printed with trail maps to popular ski resorts and literally keep the trail map in the palm of your hand. Or keeps the trail map at your fingertips. Or helps you know the mountain like the back of your hand. I should stop, but damn are they handy.  The Downside? No more "getting lost" excuses so that you can ski alone without your newbie cousin-in-law slowing you down.  Bonus: they help your loved one protect those $400 Hestras or spice up their Kincos with Graphic Design Skittenz. And Nikwax coating keeps your paws dry and toasty. Yes, Skittenz are the cat’s meow.

 

 

 

3. Ski Pass - Nothing says I care about your physical and mental health more than giving someone the ability to call off work and go skiing any day of the week. Sure you could put the money into a 529 college fund, but the truth is that real life skills, like how to pack your own lunch and shove it into your jacket pockets or surviving 7 rounds of awkward chairlift smalltalk, are made on the mountain. 

 

 

4. Action camera - The humble pie gift  for snow enthusiasts entering their 40’s. Now you can finally see, in 4K ultra slow motion, how much air you actually got. Or that your once waist-high powder days are replaced by videos of your 4-year-old crying through the parking lot and then eating french fries and M&M’s in the lodge with no skiing to be had. 

 

 

5. Glove Liners - At some point everyday on the mountain there is a pissing contest about who has the coldest fingers and even though the incidence of Raynaud’s syndrome is about 5% you’ll be hard-pressed to find someone who can make a snowball without a trip to the emergency room for purple carrot fingies. 

 

 

6. The Cat Tat - What’s this? Excuse me? A temporary tattoo that looks like a cat-shaped birthmark? Where have you been all my life? Automatic hot-tub conversation starter! Yes, please. #amirite.