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The 26 year-old Hawaiian surfs frigid waves and then heli-boards.
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.
The Austrian pro snowboarder carves up the backcountry.
国产吃瓜黑料 senior editor Grayson Schaffer shows you how to ski downhill with your dog.
This year's Himalayan climbing season is in full swing, which to most people means one thing: Everest. Already this season the world's highest mountain has seen the first cellphone call from the summit, a record number of…
I'm ready to head away from the resort. What's the best way to work out for ski mountaineering? The Editors Santa Fe, NM
Five days before the 2010 Olympic snowboarding trials, Kevin Pearce slammed his head on a rock-hard wall of halfpipe, suffering severe brain trauma that flipped the script of his life. A return to competition is out of the question--he's had to relearn how to walk and talk--but that's not enough to keep him off the mountain.
For those willing to experiment on a snowboard worth a few hundred dollars or more, get out your power tools. Timeline and Xavier de le Rue have a put together a pretty cool tutorial on how to build…
Angel Collinson joins the team from Backcountry.com on Vimeo. Freeskier Angel Collinson announced yesterday that she has signed with Team Backcountry.com, whose roster includes such big-name skiers as Jenn Berg,…
聽The World Ski and Snowboard Festival聽wrapped up recently in Whistler, BC, in the usual nine-day riot of partying, skiing, and celebrating the newest, most talented, and most dedicated innovators, athletes, and individuals in the ski industry. The Olympus Pro Photographer Showdown聽is among the…
The Former Governor of New Mexico May Be The Most Unique Presidential Candidate in The Field. We Hereby Endorse His Campaign Trail. https://youtube.com/watch?v=GyBaWhBWqwU%C2%A0 Last week, I joined Gary Johnson, the 58-year-old former governor of New Mexico and aspiring Republican presidential nominee, for a…
High winds this week on Cho Oyu, west of Everest So far at Base Camp during the 2011 climbing season, Everest ER has seen 276 patients, a number they say is on target “to break all previous…
To raise awareness about first responders diagnosed with PTSD, guest blogger Michael Ferrara plans to ski 900 miles across Alaska, south to north, from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean, with his dog, Lhotse, trotting beside him. To learn more about Ferrara's quest, read…
Ski guide and mountaineer Kip Garre and Allison Kreutzen were killed in an avalanche in the Sierra Nevada backcountry south of Bishop, California, earlier this week, according to reports from Powder.com and…
Photo by jeremyeanlittle on Flickr The Southern Hemisphere鈥檚 largest winter sports event, Winter Games New Zealand, have opened entries for this year's competition…
To raise awareness about first responders diagnosed with PTSD, guest blogger Michael Ferrara plans to ski 900 miles across Alaska, south to north, from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean, with his dog, Lhotse, trotting beside him. To learn more about Ferrara's quest, read…
The freeskiers at this year's Jon Olsson Invitational in 脜re, Sweden, this weekend got such big air and wild twists that, in one instance, a joke about the need for pocket calculators to tally rotations wasn't out of the question, according to…
Climbers and mountaineers from around the world have begun arriving at Everest base camp the past few weeks, a clear sign that climbing season on the world鈥檚 highest peak is once again underway. While most hope simply to make it to the summit, a handful of expeditions have other goals…
To raise awareness about first responders diagnosed with PTSD, guest blogger Michael Ferrara plans to ski 900 miles across Alaska, south to north, from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean, with his dog, Lhotse, trotting beside him. To learn more about Ferrara's quest, read…
The eighth episode of Xavier de le Rue's snowboard series Timeline was posted yesterday on Backcountry.com. In the five-minute short, de le Rue joins fellow big-mountain riders and filmmakers Jeremy Jones, Jimmy…
To raise awareness about first responders diagnosed with PTSD, guest blogger Michael Ferrara plans to ski 900 miles across Alaska, south to north, from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean, with his dog, Lhotse, trotting beside him. To learn more about Ferrara's quest, read…
To raise awareness about first responders diagnosed with PTSD, guest blogger Michael Ferrara plans to ski 900 miles across Alaska, south to north, from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean, with his dog, Lhotse, trotting beside him. To learn more about Ferrara's quest, read…
Red Bull Bobby Brown Triple Cork 1440 from Poor Boyz Productions on Vimeo. At a private park in Squaw Valley, Bobby Brown conquered the first ever Triple Cork 1440. Brown, from Colorado, is only 19 years old, but has been dominating the freeskiing world since he first…
Climbers and mountaineers from around the world have begun arriving at Everest base camp the past few weeks, a clear sign that climbing season on the world鈥檚 highest peak is once again underway. While most hope simply to make it to the summit, a handful of expeditions have other goals…
To raise awareness about first responders diagnosed with PTSD, guest blogger Michael Ferrara plans to ski 900 miles across Alaska, south to north, from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean, with his dog Lhotse trotting beside him. To learn more about Ferrara's quest, read…
To raise awareness about first responders diagnosed with PTSD, guest blogger Michael Ferrara plans to ski 900 miles across Alaska, south to north, from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean, with his dog Lhotse trotting beside him. To learn more about Ferrara's quest, read…
To raise awareness about first responders diagnosed with PTSD, guest blogger Michael Ferrara plans to ski 900 miles across Alaska, south to north, from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean, with his dog Lhotse trotting beside him. To learn more about Ferrara's quest, read…
To raise awareness about first responders diagnosed with PTSD, guest blogger Michael Ferrara plans to ski 900 miles across Alaska, south to north, from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean, with his dog Lhotse trotting beside him. To learn more about Ferrara's quest, read…
FEBRUARY 29, 2009 - Ski Jumping : Price ski competision at Okurayama Jump Stadium on February 29, 2009 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. (Photo by Tsutomu Takasu) Photo by tpower1978 on Flickr The International Olympic Committee…
FEBRUARY 29, 2009 - Ski Jumping : Price ski competision at Okurayama Jump Stadium on February 29, 2009 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. (Photo by Tsutomu Takasu) Photo by tpower1978 on Flickr The International Olympic Committee…
To raise awareness about first responders diagnosed with PTSD, guest blogger Michael Ferrara plans to ski 900 miles across Alaska, south to north, from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean, with his dog Lhotse trotting beside him. To learn more about Ferrara's quest, read…
To raise awareness about first responders diagnosed with PTSD, guest blogger Michael Ferrara plans to ski 900 miles across Alaska, south to north, from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean, with his dog Lhotse trotting beside him. To learn more about Ferrara's quest, read…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RcYRpM5jnDA%C2%A0 Video from Parker's training in Longyearbyen before his March 2010 North Pole attempt Sixteen-year-old Parker Liautaud, who was born in California but now lives in London, has already done some hardcore adventuring, such as climbing the Rockies…
April, for some, means joyful sightings of those loathsome little harbingers of the end of ski season-crocuses. But in the mountains, especially this year, it means the powder is still relentlessly hammering the peaks-good news for those who don鈥檛 like crocuses. 聽But if you鈥檙e going to be out there, you…
April, for some, means joyful sightings of those loathsome little harbingers of the end of ski season-crocuses. But in the mountains, especially this year, it means the powder is still relentlessly hammering the peaks-good news for those who don鈥檛 like crocuses. 聽But if you鈥檙e going to be out there, you…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RcYRpM5jnDA%C2%A0 Video from Parker's training in Longyearbyen before his March 2010 North Pole attempt Sixteen-year-old Parker Liautaud, who was born in California but now lives in London, has already done some hardcore adventuring, such as climbing the Rockies…
Courtesy of CAIC Longtime Aspen resident Adam Dennis was killed yesterday in a deep-slab avalanche below treeline in Desolation Row. The out-of-bounds run near the Aspen Highlands had been covered by more than a foot of snow over the weekend,…
Courtesy of CAIC Longtime Aspen resident Adam Dennis was killed yesterday in a deep-slab avalanche below treeline in Desolation Row. The out-of-bounds run near the Aspen Highlands had been covered by more than a foot of snow over the weekend,…
To raise awareness about first responders diagnosed with PTSD, guest blogger Michael Ferrara plans to ski 900 miles across Alaska, south to north, from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean, with his dog Lhotse trotting beside him. To learn more about Ferrara's quest, read…
To raise awareness about first responders diagnosed with PTSD, guest blogger Michael Ferrara plans to ski 900 miles across Alaska, south to north, from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean, with his dog Lhotse trotting beside him. To learn more about Ferrara's quest, read…
To raise awareness about first responders diagnosed with PTSD, guest blogger Michael Ferrara plans to ski 900 miles across Alaska, south to north, from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean, with his dog Lhotse trotting beside him. To learn more about Ferrara's quest, read…
To raise awareness about first responders diagnosed with PTSD, guest blogger Michael Ferrara plans to ski 900 miles across Alaska, south to north, from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean, with his dog Lhotse trotting beside him. To learn more about Ferrara's quest, read…
The death rate for snowboarders is about one-third lower than for skiers, according to the National Ski Areas Association. The injury rate for snowboarders, however, is about twice as high as for skiers. “I expected, along with everyone else, that the death rate in snowboarding would…
Michael Ferrara and Lhotse, Photo by Paolo Marchesi To raise awareness about first responders diagnosed with PTSD, guest blogger Michael Ferrara plans to ski 900 miles across Alaska, south to north, from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean, with his dog Lhotse trotting…
The death rate for snowboarders is about one-third lower than for skiers, according to the National Ski Areas Association. The injury rate for snowboarders, however, is about twice as high as for skiers. “I expected, along with everyone else, that the death rate in snowboarding would…
Michael Ferrara and Lhotse, Photo by Paolo Marchesi To raise awareness about first responders diagnosed with PTSD, guest blogger Michael Ferrara plans to ski 900 miles across Alaska, south to north, from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean, with his dog Lhotse trotting…
Eye Candy TimeLapses – TimeLine bonus 1 from TimeLine on Vimeo. When sessions filming snowboarder Xavier de La Rue are over, cameraman Guido Perrini sets up his gear to get amazing timelapses. Here's a quick collection. Via:…
Ben Saunders – The Delay from Ben Saunders on Vimeo. British polar explorer Ben Saunders canceled his expedition to the North Pole today because of continued foul weather, the adventure journal reports. Saunders was hoping to…
Ben Saunders – The Delay from Ben Saunders on Vimeo. British polar explorer Ben Saunders canceled his expedition to the North Pole today because of continued foul weather, the adventure journal reports. Saunders was hoping to…
聽 Samuel Anthamatten, Aurelien Ducroz and Jeremy Prevost, 2011 Freeride World Champions TourPhoto courtesy of freerideworldtour.com / J.Bernard A few days before the finale of the Freeride World Tour was to take place in…
聽 Samuel Anthamatten, Aurelien Ducroz and Jeremy Prevost, 2011 Freeride World Champions TourPhoto courtesy of freerideworldtour.com / J.Bernard A few days before the finale of the Freeride World Tour was to take place in…
A kite-skier in action (from Bengt Nyman on Flickr) At the end of the Trans-Canada Highway in the small town of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, on Saturday, siblings Eric and Sarah McNair-Landry made their final preparations and began…
You can jump out right here, too. 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽Photo: Ian Forhman/Red Bull It isn鈥檛 everyday that you get to ski a couloir that Sage Cattabriga-Alosa just slayed in the Red Bull Cold Rush.聽 Or try…
https://www.youtube.com/embed/Mf6fR-NCsc8 Three-time overall World Cup ski champion Lindsey Vonn was denied a chance to defend her title Saturday in Lenzerheide, Switzerland, after the International Ski Federation cancelled the season's final event because of wet, foggy weather, the AP…
A kite-skier in action (from Bengt Nyman on Flickr) At the end of the Trans-Canada Highway in the small town of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories, on Saturday, siblings Eric and Sarah McNair-Landry made their final preparations and began…
Winners Drew Tabke and Angel Collinson.Courtesy of Keith Carlsen/ MSI On Saturday in Snowbird, Utah, the Freeskiing World Championships rounded up with 10 women and 35 men hitting the slopes. Angel Collinson took first and…
John Baker at last year's Iditarod. (From njwilson23 on Flickr) Alaskan John Baker won the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race earlier this afternoon in Nome, Alaska, becoming the first Alaskan Native to hold the title since Jerry…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=oH1DnyGEI8M%C2%A0 In January, we reported on snowboarder Shaun White鈥檚 desire to learn performance driving and his subsequent partnering with BFGoodrich. After riding shotgun a few times with two-time Formula Drift champion Samuel…
Snowboarders at the United States Open Snowboarding Championships in Stratton, Vermont, planned to meet today to discuss creating a union, the New York Times reports. In part, the creation of a snowboarders' union would…
It's been too long since Travis Rice's film, That's It, That's All, debuted in 2008 and got rave reviews from the snowboarding world. ESPN Action Sports claimed it was the most “visually stunning snowboard…
聽 Snowboarding freeride champ Xavier de Le Rue spent two days carving some pretty ambitious lines in northern Italy's Le Dolomiti for the latest video dispatch from Timeline on Vimeo. Le Rue has attempted a series…
Lindsey Vonn in Germany last March. Courtesy of Flickr Lindsey Vonn had a good weekend in Taraviso, Italy. She defended her super combined title on Friday, won her fourth downhill championship title on Saturday, and won…
Courtesy of Flickr Nearly 1,000 dogs and 62 mushers are racing 1,131 miles across Alaska in the 38th annual Iditarod dogsled race. Teams departed from Anchorage on Saturday, March 5, and are expected to arrive in Nome by March 15…
Valdez, Alaska, Ferrara's jumping-off point for his 800-mile journey. Courtesy of Flickr In an effort to raise awareness of post-traumatic stress syndrome among first responders, Michael Ferrara is preparing to ski 800 miles across Alaska as part of…
Testing New Jetpack on Skis – Troy Hartman from Troy Hartman on Vimeo. Troy Hartman of Mammoth Lakes, California, is helping to make jet-pack skiing a reality. This video, from GrindTV.com, shows Hartman safely and easily cruising up slopes and over flats…
FEBRUARY 29, 2009 - Ski Jumping : Price ski competision at Okurayama Jump Stadium on February 29, 2009 in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan. (Photo by Tsutomu Takasu) Photo by tpower1978 on Flickr The…
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Freeskier Ryan Hawks has passed away after an accident in an extreme skiing competition, according to one of his sponsors. He was 25 years old. According to Dan Abrams, president of FlyLow, one of the skier's sponsors, Hawks passed away last night in…
If you've been kickin' it on the mountain all season, it's time to get some goods out of nailing all those flips and tricks. GORE-TEX Outerwear is holding a new video contest. Just get some video of your sickest moves on the mountain, whether you board…
A cable tram in working order on Mount Elbrus. Courtesy of Flickr. A day and a half of terrorist activity at two popular ski resorts on the slopes of Mount Elbrus has brought a temporary end to tourism in the area,…
From spotting the English Nessie to the world's longest triathlon鈥攑lus a few lost bros in Idaho鈥攈ere's the stuff you should click on this week. 国产吃瓜黑料 Reader of the Year Runner-Up Still Trekkin':World Tri Update: Charlie Is On Foot, Headed…
Berkshire East Ski Area in Massachusetts became the world's first wind-powered ski resort this month, according to Yahoo Finance. With the on-site installation of…
With this Monday being Presidents' Day, many of you are likely headed to slopes for a long ski weekend. Below, a few clips, galleries, and other assortments to get you in the mood. And if skiing's not your thing, well, we've got you covered, too. Here's the stuff you should…
Courtesy of Flickr Chuck Allen, aka the “Godfather of Snowboarding,” passed away on February 14, according to Transworld Snowboarding. Allen was a founder of the United States of America Snowboarding Association…
Big Cottonwood Canyon, one of three iconic alpine valleys outside of Salt Lake City, was clouded in and utterly white. Deep snow, in the form of 10 inches of Utah fluff, was at my feet and sprawling downhill for a mile or more from the top of a peak at…