thesnowboardrealms.com brings us this look at Opening Day Mt. Baker. Music “Law of Nature Outro” Marlin “Totally Totally” The Flamboyant gods So…. I wasn’t sure if an opening day could ever top a few years ago, I was wrong. Hands down the best opening day…Possibly my best ski hill shred day ever in North america. Sorry Mt. […]
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Line of the Week !! – Surf’s Up Lake Tahoe
The Line of the Week North Lake Tahoe Surf’s Up !! I hope these Tahoe surf days aren’t getting too redundant. I thought I had hit my quota for photos of people paddling out on Tahoe and hoping to catch a ride on a four foot wave. That was before last week… I was sleeping […]
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Opening Weekend Powder Skiing at Alta
There was a good dose of new powder at Alta this weekend. This video was shot in the Ho in the late afternoon. There was still a ton of soft stuff and faceshots were still possible until last chair. This beat the hell out of skiing the White Ribbon of death at Snowbird. There were […]
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Olympic Gold Medalist, Ted Ligety, 2,100 Word Rant About New FIS Regulations | FIS SUCKS
The opening paragraph really says it all: “FIS’s tyranny has gone on long enough. It seems FIS is going out of their way to ruin the sport. FIS runs a dictatorship. They demand absolute control then try to butter their will in a fake cloak of benevolence. Athletes, SRS (Association of Ski Racing Suppliers and […]
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Unofficial Snow Report | Squaw, Nov. 20, 2011 | It’s Starting to Look a Lot Like Winter
Ski season in Tahoe is getting close! Last night’s snowfall laid a few more inches on top of Friday night’s storm and with less wind it was able to stack more evenly. Resort reports on snow accumulation in the last 24 hrs: Squaw Valley: 1-2″ at 6200 2-4″ at 8200 Sugar Bowl: 7″ at the base 12″ […]
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Keepin it RAW | Weekly Post #1
Keeping It Raw #1 …… So the other day we were doing some loser laps on the groomers killing time waiting for ULLR and the snow gods to start cooking up some snow and what did we see…………………………………………………………………………………………….. A snowboarder smoking while spinning a 360 with no gloves on. props dude snowboarder……u are pretty raw […]
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Storm Totals | A Little More Than Half a Beer on the Squaw Valley Snow Can | Nov. 19, 2011
We’re not exactly measuring snow depth in tall boys yet but we did see some accumulation in the Valley last night. High winds stripped railings and ridges but there are likely to be some reasonable snow drift deposits in pockets around the mountain. In the last 24 hrs Squaw: 1-2″ at 6200 2-4″ at 8200 Sugar […]
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MAN DIES SKIING AT VAIL OPENING DAY – ALSO REPORT OF SKI DEATH AT BRECK
Not much info yet except that it is a man, but the Coroner’s office is expected to release a statement at 8 pm about the incident or incidents. The Vail incident happened around noon and investigators are still looking into exactly what happened. The Breck incident is just speculation for now according to the Denver Post. The season already […]
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Opening Day Conditions and A Storm Rolling into the Wasatch | How BIG will it be?
Today was opening day at Alta and Snowbird and I was surprised how few people were out sliding around on the hill today. I would estimate that there were only about 1/3 as many cars in the Wildcat Parking Lot today as during the last few pre-season powder days….and on those days you had to […]
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The 2 Most Fun PILLOW Skiing Videos of 2010/11
Frightening Revelstoke pillow and powder idiocy. You want stoke, huh? That what you want? These are my two favorite ski videos from the 2011/12 season. I think I need to move to British Colombia because lately, every video that I’m stoked on seems to come from there and it’s kinda all I can think about. […]