The SnoWest Show

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.

Curtis Friede of Kurt's Polaris in Seeley Lake, Montana, shares some experiences about owning a snowmobile dealership for decades. Justin Stevens and Ryan Harris in-studio.

Part 3 of our 850 NA review podcast. We compare the 2025 Arctic Cat M 858 154 3.0, Polaris 850 Khaos RMK 155 3.25 and Ski-Doo 850 Summit X 154 3.0. This Part 3 episode is all about random questions about these sleds from followers on social media. We talk about what our test staff has felt riding these sleds since February of 2024.