You think you know how to clean your goggles? Well, maybe you do. But that’s what I thought, too, and after scratching more than a few pairs I thought I’d check with experts at the goggle manufacturers themselves to get some recommendations.
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Whatever Lindsey Vonn, Bode Miller, Julia Mancuso, and Andrew Weibrecht are getting paid, the sport of skiing (or at least the industry) owes them more. Not since, well, ever has the sport been as high as it is today. Neither, thanks to Shaun White, Hannah Teter, Kelly Clark, and Scotty Lago, has snowboarding. But it’s [...]
So…that lighter you keep in your pocket when you’re shredding? Might come in handy some day in ways you never anticipated. Dominik Podolsky, a snowboarder from Munich, Germany, was riding in Austria and got stuck on a chairlift for six hours after the ski area closed, Der Spiegel reports. Only by torching every scrap of [...]
For American adventurers, particularly skiers and boarders, Europe has always symbolized the promised land of freedom. Ski areas don’t restrict your travel, you can hop off-piste and on at will, and you’re responsible for your own hide. That extends to rescues, too, where you’re still responsible—you can expect to pay the cost of rescuers fetching [...]
With this short film, The Adventure Life is pleased to launch the first of a series of informational clips called 60-Second Expert. In this inaugural spot, we address the issue of getting along in the backcountry. You’d think the wild winter spaces would offer room for all of us, but that’s not always true. In [...]
It’s not that SnowSports Industry America hasn’t tried. It’s just that the airlines won’t listen. When airlines began slapping travelers with checked bag fees in 2008, representatives from SIA—North America’s leading trade association for all things ski and snowboard—waved the white flag.>>>
Swiss snowboard clothing company Zimtstern has produced a short film that is nothing less than charming, whimsical, and just plain rad. Shot in the woods of Saas-Fee with a production crew of 25, it brings to life what most of us have dreamed–shredding even when there’s no snow. Now, here’s the thing that will blow you away when you watch: No computer effects or post-production trickery was involved. What you see is what they shot…CONTINUE>
Doug Coombs was inducted into the U.S. Skiing Hall of Fame a couple of weeks ago, which was appraisingly noted throughout the ski world. Congratulations to Doug. He deserves it, and I only wish he were still here to enjoy it. Unfortunately, Doug died in a fall in 2006, and although it’s harsh to say, the sad reality is that if he were still alive, he would not be in the hall. The U.S. Skiing Hall of Fame is woefully out of touch with the full-flavored complexities of modern skiing, and big-mountain pioneers like Doug are more typically ignored in favor of alpine racers, instructors, and industry functionaries whose accomplishments are long forgotten.
Slip away from the light, away from the east- and west-facing slopes, and slide into the deep dark pitches that angle north, where the sun is a cold and distant orb, its influence as weak as gravity on the moon. The shadowed lands are the hallowed lands, chilly and dim, where night comes sooner and the snow is preserved as frosty and light as the day it fell.
Winter storms don’t glide in gently on puffy white cumulous clouds, they barrel across the mountains like runaway freight trains, full of noise and bluster, prodded by the restless wind. Ski resorts don’t like to talk about wind–or storms in general—because it scares away the tourists, who somehow forget that winter is messy, cold, and wild, as if snow were laid down softly each night like a blanket over a sleeping baby. But wind is a fact of life in the mountains, as much a part of the weather as snow itself.
When ski patroller Andrew Entin was killed in an avalanche Tuesday on his normal control route at Squaw Valley, it brought the season total in North America to 38 deaths. If you consider the tragedy of even one person lost, it’s a sad and shocking number. But how does it stack up to other years?
If you’re gonna screw up on the hill, the smart money would take depantsing any day over the nightmare snowboarder James Pell put himself through. The British snowboarder was riding in Tignes, France, a few days ago when he and friends ventured off-piste. Can’t blame him for that, we’ve all be there, but stuck on a steep face with a thin snowpack, he made a clearly unwise decision.
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The Gallery of the OIdest Living Things in the World
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The Greenest Job? Might Be Professional Tree Climber
60-Second Expert: The Right Way to Clean Your Goggles
Before There Was The Hurricane, There Was the Double Daffy
