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A Sloppy (and Gratifying ) Spring Trail Run

by steve casimiro on April 27, 2012 · 2 comments

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Just about the time you think summer’s here, winter comes roaring back. You can view it as an unwanted guest…or embrace it as one of the last great cold sessions of goop and sleet before the long season of heat and sun. Photographer Celin Serbo and runner Laura Shultz pieced together this wonderful vignette of [...]

Funding to Study Dust on Snow is Melting Away

by bob berwyn summit county voice on April 5, 2012 · 0 comments

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A critical research program that helps assess the effects of wind-born dust on Colorado’s snowpack and runoff is fighting for financial survival. To continue operating the Senator Beck Basin long-term monitoring program after this season, the Silverton-based Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies needs to raise a total of $135,000. Private donors have stepped up to the plate with $15,000 [...]

Two Killed in Avalanche In Grand Teton National Park

by steve casimiro on March 8, 2012 · 6 comments

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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 [...]

Gear Review: Lifeproof iPhone Case

by michael frank on March 7, 2012 · 4 comments

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What you’re looking at is the Abrams Tank of iPhone cases. It’s not svelte, and it’s not especially pretty (though it comes in pink if you think that’s a plus), but there’s little doubt that some massive brain power went into making the LifeProof case as ridiculously bomber as it could be and still allow [...]

Massive Avalanche Takes Out French Ski Lift — With Skiers on It

by steve casimiro on March 5, 2012 · 0 comments

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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 [...]

Poll: How Do You Cope With a Lousy Snow Year?

by steve casimiro on February 27, 2012 · 123 comments

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Is this the worst winter ever? It depends on where you are, of course, but the big picture in North America has been bleakness as far as the eye can see. Despite the occasional pocket of dumposity, it’s been thin and thinner from coast to coast. Some ski areas had their latest openings ever, some [...]

Big Air on a Borrowed Bike and a Bum Femur Nabs $5000

by jessica cassity on February 23, 2012 · 0 comments

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Chad Kagy doesn’t even own a mountain bike, but last weekend at the Teva Mountain Games he won the best trick competition. Mind you, he does own a BMX bike, but 20-inchers and 26-inch-wheeled bikes aren’t the same thing, especially not when you’re trying to manhandle a bike in mid-air. And it can’t have made [...]

Gear Review: Burton Mix Master Mitt

The Burton Mix Master Mitt makes two things happen to your iPod or iPhone a lot more easily: play and pause. It’s courtesy of a wireless remote built inside the waterproof leather. Just plug a small dongle into the bottom of your iPhone/iPod and use the integrated buttons on the back of the lefthand glove [...]

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Gear Review: Eddie Bauer Nail Driver Pant

A while back, Eddie Bauer lost its way, as anyone who’s ever been to a mall knows. Its climb out of no-wrinkle slacks has been steep, but fruitful, as witnessed by its well-known work with top mountain guides, which resulted in its first expedition tent, and it return to its core roots, as seen in [...]

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Sick! Josh Dueck Pulls the World’s First Sit Ski Backflip

In 2004 Josh Dueck had a skiing backflip go horribly wrong. It turned him into a paraplegic. But it didn’t stop him from skiing. As soon as he could, he started sit skiing, and if you watch the first few seconds of this footage you see Dueck hucking drops, blowing arcs through powder — going [...]

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In Utah Gondola Fight, Officials Avoid Public Input to Help Developers

The story on ski area growth in North America is simple: It’s slowed way down. Skier numbers are flat, real estate has gone bust, and the only place skiing and snowboarding are seeing participation numbers rise significantly is in the sidecountry and backcountry. And that really doesn’t mean there are more skiers, it just means [...]

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Hello, Winter, Welcome Back

Finally. Jiminy crickets, that was a long drought. Ullr bestowed his good graces on the West for the first time in, like, ever, including pounding Jackson with 55 and giving a nice double-paddled defibrillation to the chest of Tahoe. And while Alta didn’t get the pukathon that JH did, it did get a blanket of [...]

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Declination: Japan’s Backcountry Powder Revolution

There’s a reason it’s called the backcountry. And though that’s mostly to differentiate it from “frontcountry” — the otherwise nameless, roadbound zone where most of us congregate — the term also connotes at least some promise of wilderness. As such, we’re more than happy to cede it to the wild animals that call it home, [...]

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Wallpaper Wednesday: Blackcomb Ski Patrol

This week’s free wallpaper is in honor of the patrollers who risk their lives keeping our slopes safe. It was shot at Blackcomb by Kevin Arnold and is provided here in a full range of desktop sizes, for the iPhone and iPad, and for common Android sizes, too. 1280 x 800 1440 x 900 1680 [...]

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Slabavalanches Are No Fun

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. [...]

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