Snow Go: Northern Lights' Yamaha HL500

Snow bikes are a great recipe for unbridled hooliganism. Take a dirt bike, fit it with a ski and a track, and hold on tight. But most are built using modern motocross machinery—and that doesn't appeal to Orion Anthony. Orion lives just north of Whistler in the alpine region of British Columbia, Canada—and spends a great deal of his time exploring the area by snowmobile. He's also just launched Northern Lights Optics, a luxury eyewear collection that takes cues from early-days mountaineering and motorcycling. “For this new brand,” says Orion, “I wanted to create something to provoke a sense of...