The Unofficial Report

The Top 30 Ski Resorts in North America… | The Most “Bang For Your Buck”

The concept here is: “Which ski resort you’ll get the most skiing/riding at for the least amount of time spent waiting for and sitting upon chairlifts.”  (aka the most ‘bang … Read More

Feel Good Video of the Week = Black Bear Sliding Down Snow Under Chairlift @ Whistler

Here’s you’re feel good video of the week.  A black bear sliding happily down snow at Whistler ski resort in British Columbia. You can tell that the guy is ecstatic … Read More

Nosebutter Double Cork 10 off the Knuckle | That S#!T Cray

Here’s Henrik Harlaut continuing to push the sport  -this time with a Nosebutter Double Cork 10 of the knuckle. This, along with other ‘progressive tricks’ were thrown yesterday at the … Read More

Stock Car Racing at the Pemberton speedway | Photo Gallery

On May 12 the Pemberton Speedway held their first race of the season. It was a sunny day with lots of exiting racing action. The event was held 15 minutes … Read More

New Zealand Ski Resort OPENING Dates… | Are You Ready to Ski in 20 Days?

“It is always winter somewhere.” – Confucius A couple of our Unofficial Japan boys are in AK skiing deep pow as I write this.  New Zealand just got a big … Read More

Mount Baker: A Ski Dream

Five hours after our descent of Mount Rainier, we were on the road again.   By the wee hours of the morning we were sleeping in the Subaru near the base … Read More

Annular Solar Eclipse to Happen This Sunday @ 6:30 PM | Best Viewed from Reno

This Sunday there is going to be an annular solar eclipse, an event that takes place only once every 50 years, and it just so happens that it is going … Read More

Winter’s Not Over Yet… Still Skiing Powder in AK | May 18th

Winter is still going strong up here in Alaska. Low pressure last week brought quite a bit of snow up high, and there is still plenty of powder to be … Read More

The Hiking in Shirley Canyon is Spectacular Right Now!

The hiking in Shirley Canyon is spectacular right now. Most of the wild flowers are out and the creek is running  strong. South aspect are clear of snow allowing for hiking all the … Read More

What if All Athletes Were Treated Like Skateboarders? | Funny Commercial

What if all athletes were treated like skateboarders? Nike makes a pretty funny parody of this concept in a series of older Nike SB commercials that have been floating around … Read More

Entertaining Squaw Valley Ski Video – “Way Back When”

A few weeks ago we received this email from Adam Kopelman. “Here is a video from my archives I thought you guys might get a kick out of.  Music by … Read More

Banger Edit of Sick Dirt Jumping in Tanner Park | Spring Has Sprung in Utah

Tanner Park is know mostly as the place in Salt Lake to take your dog for a walk. I had heard that there are also some super good dirt jumps … Read More

Contour Vs. Go Pro? MSP Films Serves Up 6 Contour Edits That Will Keep The Ski Buzz Alive!

Ready for winter yet?  Sure some warmth, shorts and miles of singly track do a decent job of filling the void.  Skiing, however, is what drives the train.  Since the … Read More

Snowboarding: Then and Now | A history lesson for the new generation

In a lot of ways snowboarding hasn’t changed much since I started riding almost 15 years ago. It’s still about the search for unique terrain, building features with friends, exploring … Read More

17 Facts About Unofficial Networks Readers

Compared to the internet audience at large Unofficial Networks readers are….. 5 times more likely to have drank Gin in the past 7 days. Half as likely to have rented … Read More

Scared of Heights? These Russian Kids Ain’t

Are these Russian teens fearless of just plain stupid? High above the recently completed Russky Island Bridge, which finally connects the very isolated island in eastern Russia with Vladivostok and the mainland two teens … Read More

Alana Blanchard and Monyca Byrne Wickeys Surfing & Cliff Jumping | Ready for Summer?

Surfboarding is awesome, cliff jumping is cool and girls are pretty rad! GoPro figured this out and made a darn-good looking commercial. The girls -Alana Blanchard (The World’s Hottest Pro Surfer) … Read More

The World’s Hottest Pro Synchronized Swimmers – Bia and Branca Feres

Beatriz Feres and Branca Feres (born February 22, 1988, Brazil) are Brazilian synchronized swimmers. And yes they are identical twins. The Feres sisters competed for Brazil in the 2007 Pan American Games in synchronized swimming.

Happy Bike to Work Day!

Bike-to-Work Day is an annual event being held across the United States and Canada to promote bicycles as an option for commuting to work. In order to celebrate National Bike to Work … Read More

A Tale of a Telemarker Turned A/T Skier

Moments after our writer, Joey bagodounts, published his very controversial piece Still Telemarking, Huh? it started to spread it’s way around the internet. Within a day and a half it … Read More

$69 Lift Tickets… The Snow’s Great, But Is It $69 Great? Mammoth Conditions Report | May 18, 2012

MAMMOTH CONDITIONS REPORT | When the beach weather’s so very nice it certainly can be difficult to think snow… Understood. Even around Mammoth Lakes GREEN is the predominant color these … Read More

Do You Have A Cool 200k Burning A Hole In Your Pocket? | Buy A Chairlift!

Now that Snowbird is closed and the cat crews are hard at work making road cuts in the remaining snow, Snowbird is looking for someone to buy the Little Cloud … Read More

Squaw’s Answer to a Bike Park….

Apparently Squaw has Officially answered the dilemma regarding wether or not they are going to have a Bike Park this year. Answer: Posting a story on their website regarding the … Read More

Best Conditions of the Entire Season for Scotland

Cammy Martindale emailed us this update on the current skiing conditions in Scotland.  Cairngorm Mountain is experiencing the best conditions of the whole season on the top half of the … Read More

Crazy Landslide in Switzerland | Entire Mountainside Collapses | You Gotta Watch This Video!

This is straight nuts. Think avalanches are bad? Check out this natural disaster in Preonzo, Switzerland. An entire mountainside collapses itself. The landslide was estimated at 300,000 cubic meters. A … Read More

Like Mountain Biking? How ‘Bout a Free Mountain Biking Trip to Sun Valley? | Bonus Funny Marketing Video

Historically, Sun Valley has been known for a lot of things- the world’s first chairlift, wealthy celebrities, etc. More recently they’ve gained some popularity in the mountain bike world, hosting … Read More