We all know the Greatest Snow on Earth lives up Little Cottonwood Canyon outside of Salt Lake City. Little Cottonwood is home to the legendary Alta…
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February 2: Park City, Utah The world is coming to Park City next week in search of Olympic medals and memories to last a lifetime. I…
Submitted by guest writer, Tracey Hughes “I’m so over this” said my friend May Eynon, who happened to be skinning next to me in a sub-zero…
We all know the Greatest Snow on Earth lives up Little Cottonwood Canyon outside of Salt Lake City. Little Cottonwood is home to the legendary Alta…
The snowpack this year has been, well, unstable to say the least. Anything that can slide already has at least once, if not twice all on…
Ahhhh… Northwest-style skiing. Low passes, heavy precipitation, fir trees galore and sick, coastal terrain. This is home. The Cascade Mountains of Western Washington were my playground;…
Salt Lake City, Thanksgiving day, 2001… rain, all day long, then snow… all night long. Park City, Thanksgiving day, 2001… snow, all day and night! Little…
That is a day I’ll remember for a long time. The days leading up to the 7th had been filled with unreal April powder in record…
Backcountry skiing has many inherent dangers, but so does walking down a busy street or commuting in rush hour traffic. Flirting with Mother Nature is never…
All right – for over 3 years I’ve wanted a ski like these. Ever since I first saw twintips in movies like Sick Sense and Degenerates,…
I love unexpected spring powder days. One day everyone is cruising around town on mountain bikes, the next day it’s full blown winter again. Makes no…
One afternoon this season I packed my bags, kissed Emily good-bye, and hopped in the ICE Poles truck with Cameron Vigil – pow-seeking Alta boy and…
Email is great. Meg Ryan is in a movie about it, so it’s got to be good. The best part about email is planning ski trips.…
Every year for the past 15 years as the snow starts to fall and as the opening day of the resort nears I get more and…
Kyle’s mom didn’t want us taking the Dung Beetle, so we ended up driving my car anyway. After all, the Rodeo was sexier than that old…
This ski season has been less than stellar for the Wasatch Mountains of Utah. We’ve seen little snowfall and warm temps be the norm… until now!…
Twelve-Thirty, as we like to call it, is a long, treeless, open run just outside The Canyons Ski Resort boundaries. Short hikes outside the access gates…
Canada… home of maple syrup, loonies, high-rise apartment buildings, Frenchies, red, white and beer eh?, and best of all, British Columbia. Whistler-Blackcomb is consistently rated the…
My only experience with the ringleader of the freeskiing world was pretty darn funny. It was last January in Blackcomb at the Canadian Freeskiing Championships. We…