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The Derby? The best race you'll ever enter. Not to mention the fact that if you are into crazy fall you die descents, La Grave has plenty of super-scary stuff and unless you regularly ski there, you should get a guide. You'll need a harness and rope and know how to rescue yourself from crevasses...

It's part of their new, innovative marketing plan, like dropping their team. LOL! No, they're a small company and everyone is probably slammed getting 10000's of bindings shipped out to retail outlets.

NO. Have your friend come west. After a couple of days skiing out there, it won't be hard to convince him of this wisdom.

Hahaha! This is THE TRUTH. One sleeping bag will suffice, provided that it's a -30 degree winter camping monster (and those are expensive). Otherwise use two lighter weight ones. You can't go wrong by hooking up with a lonely resort chick, but I think the term "lonely resort chick" is a bit of...

N.B. rips, there's no question about that. He doesn't have a garage full of Line skis, though. The point here is not that N.B. is gay for doing that trick. The image was created by Vail during one of their photo shoots with their staff photographer to represent what the Vail Marketing goons...

Enjoy the rain, Phrosty. Personally, I prefer to do my skiing somewhere the snow lasts, like the western slope above 8000 feet. Denver got a WHOPPING 39.3 inches of snow last winter.

hahah! True. I actually know this guy, he coaches the Vail Freeride Team. Vail, being the corporate entity that it is, asks their sponsored athletes to do some pretty lame things. Noah wanted to get inverted during this shoot, Vail wanted the "cool double grab." Is it selling out to do a trick...

I have skied this ski. It's not as true "Big-Mountain" has some here would have you believe. I found that at high speeds it felt a bit loose when compared to, say, the Head Super Mojo or Seth's K2 offering. It's true that these are not the skis you'd ski in bounds much. They work, and you can...

I'd guess that you will find more big-mountain folks over on biglines.com. That being said, the Basin has a pretty tight crew who compete, especially in the Colorado Freeride Series over in Snowmass. I'd also have to give the Taos event (skitaos.org) really high points for organization and...

NO! Don't even try. The pass is notorious for suckering in people and then breaking legs, blowing out knees because it LOOKS like there is enough snow, but there really isn't. Wait until the next big storm. This one won't put down enough of a base to cover all the rocks, stumps, logs, boulders...

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Rumor has it both Loveland and A Basin fire up their lifts on Thursday. Currently the storm that's dropping snow is doing a pretty good job: www.skiloveland.com/Cam/Valley/ValleyCam.html Not much longer. . .

Yes, wheels. You MUST have them. Don't get suckered by buying a nice or "cool" looking ski bag or duffel bag without them. It's essential to have wheels. On BOTH your duffel and your ski bag. A large duffel and a double ski bag will suffice for your travels (I've been to Chile a ton of times...

It is. Two strategies: 1. Be first, ski for an hour and sell your ticket to someone in the parking lot. 2. Be last, clip a ticket in the parking lot and get the last hour of the day in for free. Or, pray for a ton of snow and hike the pass. It's always better to hike for powder or build a...

Not exactly. The key here are the words "controlling interest." Now that a major development/luxury hotel company has a controlling interest in the ski resort expect things to change, and quickly. There will be more development, particularly high-end real estate. The mountain will become more...

Yeah, or U of Washington in Seattle, University of Puget Sound is also there. Your mountains would include Alpental, Crystal, Baker. And you are close to Whistler, too.

Tambo hasn't been involved with Freeskier Magazine for three years, so if you want to see pics of him, you're out of luck. Maybe start hanging out at The Foundry with your camera and you can catch him shooting pool all wasted and take some picks for your "personal" use. Whatever that may be. . .

Hmmm, that means that Berthoud probably got a foot. Soon, very soon.

Isn't everything freeskiing. I mean, if you're not running gates, and just cruising around and doing what ever feels good like airs and stuff. People have been doing that shit forever! Freeskiing!

Best Park in the East? This place isn't open yet, but Evan Dybvig and the Whaleback crew are going to get my vote. They finally sealed the deal and it's on! Go Evan!