In this short film, a NASA scientist, a weathercaster, a long-time Mammoth Mountain ski patroller and a professor of snow hydrology talk through the science of how California’s big mountain home continually tops the snowfall charts.
“Maroon Bowl is a steep northwest-facing slope in the near treeline elevation band. The avalanche broke about 200 feet wide (…)
Significant snowfall in Western North America means that a lot of ski resorts will be extending their season. KTVL reports that Mt. Ashland (…)
While Lift 4 won’t operate at Cuchara Mountain Park in Colorado this winter, the Panadero Ski Corporation has found a solution to bring (…)
The entire Sea-to-Sky region of British Columbia, which follows B.C.’s Highway 99 from Vancouver to just around Whistler, is one of (…)
Just another example of why Candide Thovex is considered by many to be the best skier on the planet. Thinking he was simply going for a fakie (…)
The gray walls of my cubicle were made of plastic and other bland material, but they might as well have been the iron bars of a (…)
A rare East Coast avalanche burial happened Wednesday morning as a skier on Wildcat-B in Carter Notch in New Hampshire was caught in a (…)
There are only a few independent ski resorts remaining in Utah, as many of the major players in the state have gone to corporate owners. (…)
