We sat down with Arctic Cat CEO Brad Darling and director of engineering Troy Halvorson at Hay Days to get the story on how Arctic Cat was pulled from the ashes and acquired by a private investor group in April 2025. Hosted by Ryan Harris and Bruce Kerbs.

Lots to talk about in this episode kicking off the 2025/26 sledding season. We're just days from Hay Days. Find out how you could win an Ibexx Catalyst turbo system or $5 grand in cash at Hay Days. Plus SnoWest test rider Bruce Kerbs talks about riding the 2026 Arctic Cat HCR twin rail. We dive into some Ibexx clutching and tuning components we tested last winter. Guests include Michael Klassen, Alex Klassen and Trevor Blackburn from Ibexx. Host Ryan Harris and guest host Bruce Kerbs in studio.

Arctic Cat dropped a full 2026 lineup this morning with the snowmobile media. Here's everything that's going on with the recent sale and acquisition of Arctic Cat and all the info on the new 2026 models and changes. SnoWest test riders Justin Stevens, Broc Genta and Rhett Clark join host Ryan Harris.

We dive deep into the 2026 Ski-Doo Summit X, Summit Expert and Freeride (among other models) with guests Carl Kuster, Steve Martin, Jeremy Mercier and Dave Norona from the Ski-Doo ambassador team, as well as Frederic Desjardins and Vincent Duschenes from the Ski-Doo engineering team. We took questions from our social media followers and asked them to this crew.

We dive deep into the 2026 LYNX Snowmobiles lineup with guests Janne Tapio (Snowmobile Project Manager), Hannu Harkonen (Global Product Manager), Pascal Vincent (Director Global Product Strategies BRP) and Andreas Bergmark (LYNX Ambassador and RedBull athlete) and host Ryan Harris. We focus mainly on the 2026 LYNX Shredder RE and Shredder DS models and their new features, changes and updates. We also cover the 2026 LYNX Commander, Brutal, XTerrain and Rave.

We catch up with a wild crew at the 2026 FOX Factory product launch. Guests Rick Stroble (Race Manager for Fox Factory), Chris Burandt, Tony Jenkins, David McClure and Carl Kuster join host Ryan Harris.

Polaris announced to SnoWest this morning that it would be ceasing operations at its Timbersled facilities and would stop producing the snow bike conversion systems effective immediately. What does that mean to you as a snowbike fan? Snowbike World's Nate King joins host Ryan Harris.

We held a live question-and-answer podcast where listeners could ask the Ski-Doo engineers anything they wanted to know about the 2026 lineup. Guests Frederic Desjardins (Ski-Doo Project Manager), Mathieu Hamel-Gagnon (Ski-Doo Project Manager Deep Snow), Vincent Duschenes (Ski-Doo Product Manager), Pascal Gagnon (Ski-Doo Vehicle Dynamics Specialist) and Steve Cowing (Ski-Doo PR and Media Relations Manager) join host Ryan Harris live from West Yellowstone, Montana.

SnoWest test riders Bruce Kerbs and Justin Stevens join host Ryan Harris to talk about riding the new 2026 Ski-Doo Summit Expert with its new S32 front suspension. We got all the details from Ski-Doo engineers and rode both the 850 and Turbo R 2026 Summit Expert.

SnoWest test riders Bruce Kerbs and Justin Stevens join host Ryan Harris to talk about the 2026 Ski-Doo Summit intro, all the new changes and updates, and our first ride experiences.