“Tonight’s weather forecast is calling for a winter storm warning along the Wasatch front. And the Cottonwoods could see up to 5 feet of snow before…
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Sometimes I think the soul of skiing gets lost somewhere between the $62 lift tickets and the high-speed quads. High-class slopeside lodging, apres ski festivities, multi-million…
Zion Canyon National Park is one of the most visited of our National Parks. If you’ve been there, you know why–the canyon, with its 3,000 foot…
It’s almost winter… the days are getting shorter and it’s getting cold and windy outside. The last rainfall in the valley has hit the upper elevations…
Many times, I’d driven through Grand Junction and Fruita, CO en route to Denver, but never stopped. I’ve always looked around and felt like there was…
February 6: Whistler, British Columbia From the Fairmont Chateau Whistler I woke up an hour before my alarm clock was set to go off. The only…
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;…
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…
I love the month of March. The snow pack is plentiful; powder days appear suddenly while the sun seems to brighten things a little more often.…
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…
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…
Friends and I actually motivated about three months ahead and planned a mountain bike tour of the Kokopelli Trail. Our crew had three couples; Robin and…
Wednesday afternoon. I’m crapping on the doctor’s orders. I’m lounging in the sun. Ever since I got away from my ski instructor job at The Canyons,…
My wife and I really love to go rock climbing. We try to get out once a week during the summer to enjoy the mountains and…
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…
Lake Tahoe, California… er, I mean Nevada—whichever you prefer. I think Lake Tahoe, California sounds much nicer. Mainly, Nevada conjures up thoughts of families gambling away…