The best kit for ski enthusiasts

Hitting the slopes for some downhill action this season? Then invest in some high-end clobber to make the experience even more enjoyable

The new Ski-Doo Summit 850 E-Tec Turbo is the world’s first factory-made machine to offer a turbocharged two-stroke engine and it promises to revolutionise mountain riding. Usually when riding at high altitude you can expect to lose some horsepower. Not so with this snow mobile. It maintains power at altitudes of up to 8,000 feet – a feat that has never been achieved before with a two-stroke factory sled. Deep-snow lovers will be able to reach higher altitudes more easily and riders on technical terrain will have the extra power they need to traverse slopes and weave through tight trees as they challenge themselves and push their skills. $18,099 (UK price to come), snowmobilescotland.co.uk

The SuperDOA snowboard from Capita is the best of the boards we have reviewed, says Mike Walker in Snow magazine. It offers a “poppy ride and plenty of all-mountain freestyle-friendly features”. It is fatter through the middle of the board than its competitors, which gives good torsional stiffness for “high speed carves and stability on landings”, but then thins out at the tip and tail for a little more flex and a lighter weight, making for “easy buttering and rotation”. £599.99, snowboard-asylum.com\

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Chris Carter spent three glorious years reading English literature on the beautiful Welsh coast at Aberystwyth University. Graduating in 2005, he left for the University of York to specialise in Renaissance literature for his MA, before returning to his native Twickenham, in southwest London. He joined a Richmond-based recruitment company, where he worked with several clients, including the Queen’s bank, Coutts, as well as the super luxury, Dorchester-owned Coworth Park country house hotel, near Ascot in Berkshire.

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