la nina

If you’re a skier in Tahoe right now, the weather is not making you happy.  Actually, if you’re just about anyone in Tahoe right now, the weather is totally bumming … Read More

Where is La Niña?  We know that this question is on all of our minds.  It was supposed to nuke.  It was supposed to be like last year’s La Niña. … Read More

I’ve been hesitant to discuss this topic for awhile now.  But, I know this is burning in the minds of every snow freak in North America.   THE QUESTION: – … Read More

We do…sort of It seems to be a pretty rough start all around so far, Alps, Northeast, Jackson, Montana, Cali and even Utah.  All you La Nina strokers are starting … Read More

It looks as if winter in Jackson has finally turned on.  As of yesterday there was only 6″ on Rendezvous Bowl, tied for the lowest season on record, 1977.  With … Read More

The craziest thing about this 100’ double back was that there was only about 4” of soft snow on top of a very hard layer.  Mike supposedly didn’t ski for a month after taking this hit.  Does that landing look soft to you?

This all went down last year during the epic La Niña ridiculousness.  Hopefully we get enough snow again this year to get some more heart stopping stunts from Mikey.

Mike Wilson = Squaw Valley’s Superman

It’s now official, NOAA has announced their Winter Weather Predictions for the USA for Winter 2011/12.  This NOAA report was issued on October 20th, 2011.  La Niña has officially returned. … Read More

Photo Courtesy of: NOAA In the past few months climatologists, meteorologists, old wives tales, the farmers almanac, small mammals-just about anyone and everything you could possible think of has made … Read More

Unless you’ve completely checked out of the skiing/snowboarding/weather world, you probably know La Niña is back. Hopefully, it’s as good (or at close to as good) as last year. Remember that? When it snowed every other day practically? Yeah, that was great. In case you forgot, here’s a reminder from the guys at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.  Bring it!

Salomon Freeski TV released their first episode of the new season today and she’s a doozy! Season 5 of their web-series drops with six and a half minutes of Mark Abma, Mike Douglas, Cody Townsend, Chris Rubens, James Heim and Dane Tudor shredding DEEP PNW La Nina pow from last season. Featuring AMAZING trees, pillows, jibs, rowdy lines, and so many faceshots; this killer edit will get you FIRED UP!

Salomon has really stepped it up with their Freeski TV series the last few years and I can’t wait to see them keep coming. They have been releasing about 20 a season, so keep checking back to Unofficial Networks this winter for all their episodes.