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What can you say when somebody as well written and traveled as Anthony Bourdain passes on?
It was a shock. I came home from a long introspective drive from New Hampshire, and sat in the car. I was listening to music and thinking about all the bullshit in life. I hatched a plan to get away from...
Bull Mountain was created and run for many decades by Herbert "Papa" Muntz. Alterra Mountain Company's John Major plans to purchase the mountain to add to the Ikon pass. Some of the locals aren't so sure, but Major says he has big plans for the ski resort and the town. Updating the towns...
Straight out of Conway, NH, 5th month old skier prodigy, Erica Wright, is poised to take the freeskiing scene by storm. She's only 5 months old and she can already ride in a straight line, even if that line involves a butterbox or small jump. "We just send her straight into some tiny features...
History of terrain parks . Boring maybe
In 1991 Bear Mountain built the first Snowboard Park.
Snowboard Only
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Smaller rails
Gap jumps
It's that time of year again. Winter is approaching fast and it's time to get that new pair of skis mounted.
Picture of snowstake in small amount of snow. Plow or cat plows in snow. Video.
In the ever expanding race between the Epic and brand new Alterra pass, Vail has added a backyard setup in Elk City Idaho. Epic pass holders will get 7 days per winter season, and 30 days access in the summer. The setup was built and run by Jake Williams for the past 3 years. Most of the press...
Kim Jin-Hee was watching the womens ski pipe contest with her friends on the skiers right wall. Her friends mentioned that they had gotten quite an early start on the cocktails, and weren't even sure if Kim had ever actually slept after the previous night of partying.
In between runs Kim...
Following yesterday's US Freeski kit unveiling, FIS and the German park building company Schneestern released pictures of the plan for the upcoming 2018 Winter Olympics. The Olympics will be held this coming February in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
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When you think of Africa many things come to mind. Skiing is probably among the least likely things to be associated with the continent. High atop the Maluti Mountains of Lesotho sits Afriski, a small ski resort that blasts apart most people's ideas about Africa. Lesotho is a mountain kingdom in...
Thousands of college aged kids from western states like Colorado, have begun loading up their cars and heading east. Their destination? Massachusetts.
Fed up with school, their parents, and life in general, these kids are heading east at alarming rates. Who can blame them? With some of the best...
Photo Credit Gerry Broome/Associated Press
I'm happy to see the New York Times, CNN and other major news outlets giving this some coverage. The brain, mental health, and relating problems is an area that we understand far too little of. When Dave killed himself 3 months ago it came as a shock...
I recently read an article titled "The Realities of Risk: Why Cheating Death is a Selfish Endeavor". The article went on to repeatedly state the selfishness of these sports regarding everyone including the top tier of current athletes as well as those who have passed on.
While reading the...
The streets and grocery store shelves sit empty after the storm of the decade reeked havoc on Albany NY. In a shocking turn of events, mother nature brought one of the worst storms on record to the area producing more than 2 inches of snow in parts of the city. Causing several dozen accidents...