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Electric snowmobile prototype by University of Wisconsin, Madison. Photo: Clean Snowmobile Challenge A typical mid-winter's day in Yellowstone National Park used to belie all notions you may harbor of a peaceful, quiet mountain hideaway. “People would go in and wait…

Duct Tape Then Beer skis epic powder in the sidecountry of Washington’s Mount Baker. Here’s how you can repeat the trip.

Ski-in, ski-out/drive-in, drive out @ the GMD Another bonus: Kids who learn to ski at Alta are pretty much destined to become rippers. On one ride up Collins, we saw three or four kids launch off a small cliff at full speed on…

According to the Peltzman effect, helmets and seat belts cause people to ski, drive, and ride more recklessly, if only slightly. We don’t suggest you trash your lid, but consider these numbers.

Finnish freestyle skier AJ Kemppainen gives us an inside (literally) look at what it’s like to train in a country consumed by darkness for most of the winter.

Dustin O’Brien catches a freak fall from the top of New Hampshire’s Tuckerman Ravine. Read True Tales Behind the Web’s Best (Worst) Moments for the behind-the-scenes story.

  [all photos: La Ferme du Soleil]   It’s been snowing in the Alps, and we’ve got schussing on the brain, especially since we stumbled across this choice ski-in, ski-out mountain hideout at 4,200 feet the Haute Savoie. La Ferme du Soleil (“Farm of Sunshine”) is Sound of…

Aksel Svindal has three Olympic medals, two World Cup titles, and the affections of fellow ski racer Julia Mancuso. But can he transcend the sport and become the next Hermann Maier? HAMPTON SIDES tracks down the Norwegian beast slopeside to talk about the 2007 crash that nearly ended his career and his chances of dominating the 2012 World Cup.

Good times for all in the Whistler high country [Photo: Paul Morrison] Now that the snow is finally falling in the Pacific Northwest, Rockies, and Northeast, it’s time to start chasing powder. Given the steep costs and major schlep factor, family ski trips can…

Will America's best skier ever win his sport's most prestigious race?

The smartest, most useful, and most inspiring blogs to keep your winter stoke high

A couple weeks ago on Raising Rippers, I wrestled with the dilemma we face when writing or posting about rad kids and their outdoor antics. Are we exploiting them for our own purposes or holding them up as inspiration to all? The answer is obvious when you…

A group of skiers fly into British Columbia’s Selkirk Mountains for a week of backcountry skiing.

As she spins 360s and grinds rails, keep in mind that Kelly Sildaru is nine.

In the hunt for powder with snowboarders Xavier de le Rue, Anne Flore Marxer and Victor de Le Rue. The first video in a series from www.timelinemissions.comwww.timelinemissions.com.

Photographer Tristan Gresko experiments (very successfully) with tilt-shift photography in his short ode to the world’s smallest ski resort.

In an interview from Sarah Burke's bedside, friend & fellow ski star Kristi Leskinen gives Grayson Schaffer the prognosis.

Australian Pat Farmer is on track to finish a ten-month pole-to-pole jog—without taking a single day off

Ski filmmaker Nick Waggoner talks to Caty Enders about losing two friends while producing Solitaire, the story of a ski pilgrimage through South America

The pro skier talks avalanche safety

Highlights from this year’s ski mountaineering championships in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Watch Nick Waggoner's ground-breaking backcountry ski film Solitaire

Buy Nick Waggoner’s award winning backcountry ski film here. …

An early season reminder that avalanche conditions are high across much of the West. Here are some tips from snowboarder Jeremy Jones on how to stay safe in the backcountry.  …

Kaj Zackrisson and Mike Douglas search for powder in Switzerland–using only trains for transport.

    So in the interest of setting them up for success (in the words of outdoor education experts at the National Outdoor Leadership School), best not to push two agendas at once. Better to wait for the next bluebird day for ski…

The latest episode shows freestyle skiing’s latest tricks. Filmed in black, white, and slow motion.

JP Auclair Street Segment (from All.I.Can.) from Sherpas Cinema on Vimeo. A couple of weeks ago, National Geographic �����ԹϺ��� posted a great interview with J.P. Auclair about his role in the the movie…

Cinematographer Curt Morgan joins up with the Camp 4 Collective to tell the behind the scenes story of a shoot high in Wyomings Tetons.

In 2009, while training for the 2010 Winter Olympics, snowboarder Kevin Pearce hit his head on the lip of a halfpipe and suffered a traumatic brain injury. Doctors were not sure he'd wake up from a coma, much less walk or talk again.

Jordan Manley and four other skiers spent three weeks riding big lines on Canada’s remote Baffin Island. Turns out, it’s one of the most spectacular regions on earth,…

A crew of Bosnian snowboarders want to restore their capital's war-ravaged Olympic resorts to international glory, and a burgeoning adventure-travel scene just might make it possible. Dimiter Kenarov boot-packs to the world's gnarliest lift line.

We've always been a big fan of La Sportiva's footwear. Its running shoes, climbing shoes, and technical boots have consistently earned praise and awards here at �����ԹϺ���, including a Radical Design Award this fall for the company's $3000 Stratos randonee ski…

Snowboarder Xavier de le Rue and the crew at Timeline Films have released the full version of the movie This is My Winter. It's a 28-minute-long flick that takes you behind…

A simple ode to Alta, what many skiers consider the resort in the world.

JP Auclair throws backflips, rides stairs, and gaps trucks in the streets of B.C. for his segment in Sherpa Cinema‘s latest film, All.I.Can.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=7iUA4xJFxpA On Saturday, The New York Times ran an article detailing skier Bode Miller's plan to attack the Birds of Prey downhill course with an abandon beyond anything he had done before. “The level of intensity I had, the risk I…

Red Bull's Crashed Ice is a physical mashup of hockey and snowboardcross held on a downhill ice rink. We talk to the one of the stars of the fledgling sport.

Tired of waiting in long lift lines at ski resorts? For a few thousand dollars, you could have the place to yourself.

If your favorite American ski resort added a single rail coaster would you ride it? Watch this video and then let us know in the comments section below. Ski resorts looking for an alternative way to bring in guests during the offseason, pay attention. This single-pipe coaster can…

Antarctica, Courtesy of Keoki Flagg The bad news? This expedition—in which 23 of North America's best known skiers, mountaineers, and guides invited you to cruise to Antarctica with them on a search for virgin powder—is over. The good news? The crew has…

You can watch the full version of Xavier De La Rue and TimeLine Production’s latest snowboarding epic, This Is My Winter, at TimelineMissions.com.

In our December issue, we feature Amy Purdy as one of the planet's most powerful innovators. Eleven years ago, Purdy lost her legs after getting…

Pro skiers Cody Townsend, Mark Amba, and the crew of Salomon Freeski TV hit up chest-deep powder at Washington’s Steven’s Pass.

This past weekend, skier Jamie Pierre died in an avalanche in Utah's Little Cottonwood Canyon. Known instabilities in the snowpack had been brushed aside by dozens of experienced skiers in the area that day, but these layers could persist for the whole season. How well can avalanche experts predict slides for the rest of the season based on these conditions?

Skier Jamie Pierre died this past weekend in a Utah avalanche and memorials and comments around the web have piled up in response. Warren Miller Entertainment put together this short tribute video to honor the 38-year-old athlete who…

Have kids, will heli-ski: the Cummings in AK [Dean Cummings] Last week I posted highlights from my interview with world champion extreme skier Dean Cummings, who lives in Valdez, Alaska, with his wife and two kids. Naturally you’d think that if…

Up in the Pacific Northwest, Salomon Freeski TV hits the slopes in the snowiest month of the snowiest year in a decade.

Senior editor Grayson Schaffer heads to Colorado’s C.S. Irwin Lodge for some cat skiing outside of the classic Crested Butte Mountain Resort. …

The other morning I had breakfast with Dean Cummings, a veteran Alaska heli-ski guide and all around big mountain badass, who was coming through Santa Fe to promote his new line of skis, H20 Outdoor Gear. That Dean has lived to see 46 is no small feat.

In 2004, freeskier Josh Dueck was paralyzed from the waist down. Watch Dueck hit 15-foot cliffs in B.C.’s backcountry in this inspirational story from Salomon TV.

Jeremy Jones gets into some “bottomless epic pow” in Japan. Behind the scenes of TGR’s latest film, Further.

With La Niña back and the East Coast on a five-year blizzard streak, we devised the ultimate ski calendar to help you and your family take advantage. From a boot-deep New England Thanksgiving through spring-break corn snow in the Southwest, the outlook is decidedly epic.

Former U.S. Ski Team moguls skier and director of K2's Backcountry Ski division Mike Hattrup picks his favorite mountains

The 1964 Olympic silver medalist picks his favorite ski mountains

Avalanche air bags are gaining in popularity. And for good ­reason—they can increase survival rates by 98 percent.

Freestyle skiing legend Glen Plake picks his 5 favorite places to ski

Skis may be sexier, but boots are more important

When winter and darkness settle on Norway, the locals go skiing. Watch them rip from summit to the sea in the Fjords of the Sognadal region.

This is what six seconds of Salomon’s week-long Jib Academy looks like at 1000 frames per second. We recommend watching the whole video.

La Nina’s back. Salomon Freeski TV gives us a taste of the powder the West can expect again this season.

At just 16, Mikaela Shiffrin is already being called the fastest skier the U.S. has ever produced. Can she back up that hype on the world stage?

You can't always get what you want, but you can get a pair of limited edition Rolling Stones themed K2 Sideshow skis if you're fast. To mark their respective 50th anniversary celebrations, K2 and The Rolling Stones have collaborated on the ultimate rock and roll tribute skis: The K2…

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In July, the International Ski Federation decided to require longer, straighter skis for skier safety. Did they make the right decision?

Teton Gravity Reseach’s latest ski flick was shot in nine locations. It premiers in New York City on Friday.

Despite a stellar record of spending cuts, job creation, and balanced budgets—and a world-class adventure résumé that includes an Everest summit—former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson can't get anyone to take his campaign for president seriously. Is it him or us?

Matthias Girard is lucky to be alive after the first successful SkiBASE of the Matterhorn. He admitted as much after posting the above video on his blog yesterday. Just before jumping his ski got caught in the snow, but he was able to do a front flip to keep…

Why Sandy Vietze, the U.S. skier who urinated in front of a girl on a JetBlue flight, should be reinstated immediately.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wTS2N5fgiks Somehow, we don't see this becoming the next barefoot running. In the video above from Leki, nordic walking expert Peter Schlickenrider stops by Lindsey Vonn's house in Austria to see if she's up for some nordic walking. Ding dong. “Hopefully, she's here.” Cue Vonn walking…

How a group of under-the-radar snowboarding filmmakers created one of the most innovative action-sports empires.

Included in our Top 10 from Banff, Solitaire, Sweetgrass Productions‘ latest, is a soulful ski-flick shot in South America.

 Do ski helmets affect reaction time to peripheral stimuli? No. At least not according to a study just published in  Wilderness and Environmental Medicine. Several reasons not to wear a lid have been floating around: too much weight on the neck for kids, increase level of…

The Swede carves long lines around outcrops on South Island slopes.

The Salt Lake City gap-jump honcho skies over outcrops…

Pro snowboarder Jeremy Jones shares some advice for snowboarding in the backcountry.

Instruction and tools for navigating in the backcountry.

The Austrian pro snowboarder carves up the backcountry.

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