Steve Romeo (top), publisher of the popular backcountry skiing blog Teton AT, and fellow Jackson Hole resident Chris Onufer (bottom) were killed in a large avalanche on Ranger Peak in Grand Teton National Park yesterday. The two were reported missing by Onufer’s father last night when the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort employee didn’t arrive to [...]
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No one was reported hurt, so you can relax and watch these crazy videos of a ginormous late-afternoon wet avalanche at St. Francois-Longchamps, France, in the Savoie, destroying a quad chairlift. Some 70 people were on the lift and, incredibly, not one was injured and all were evacuated within two and a half hours. “There [...]
A few years ago I was shooting photos on Jackson’s O.B. Pucker Face after a nice little storm and I instructed one of my skiers exactly where I wanted her to turn. Just 10 feet past the designated spot was a hanging pocket that looked dubious, and I cautioned her not to miss the mark. [...]
The same phenomenon that lets a ski glide may be responsible for increasing the intensity of recent avalanches, especially the largest ones. It’s simple friction, which creates a slicker surface between contact points, even as the ground (or snow) remains frozen. More motion creates yet more friction, increasing velocities and causing the avalanche to intensify. [...]
WHEN MONTEREY, CALIFORNIA SURFER ERIC TARANTINO WAS ATTACKED BY A SHARK THIS PAST FALL the 27-year-old had just paddled out into the surf in the pre-dawn light. When the great white struck, it knocked Tarantino cold, and he awoke upside down and in the jaws of the shark. What happened next is somewhat of a [...]
Avalanche rescues in Colorado could become easier as local rescue operation Flight For Life prepares to deploy a powerful aerial device that could detect buried beacons from up to 100 meters away. The Colorado-based air-rescue service is already a key component in many types of mountain rescues, quickly transporting dog-search teams to remote rescue sites [...]
The past two winters in British Columbia have been deadly, with 20 people dying in avalanches. One reason: Skiers, snowmobilers and alpinists haven’t been getting the message when the avalanche danger was high, and Parks Canada believes their own avalanche forecasting website was partially to blame. So now they’ve launched a new, graphics-based, smart-phone-friendly system [...]
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