How Risky is Ski Cutting?
Here is a new video featuring highlights of a new paper on the risks associated with ski cutting by Bruce Jamieson.
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Category: News
K2’s Mindbender Powder Skis Review
K2 has been born again for powder skiers with the Mindbender ski series, offering two powder skis that will be turning heads in the mountains this winter! Starting from the ground up, K2 designers had one ultimate goal when designing their newest lineup of skis: create a ski that is stable enough to charge through …
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Overconfident in the backcountry?
Remember what I said about assessing avalanche danger? It’s an imprecise science, and there’s always a chance you’ll get it wrong.
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Heli Ski Mystery Mountain
Mount Waddington, once known as Mystery Mountain, is the highest peak in the Coast Mountains of British Columbia. Although it is lower than Mount Fairweather and Mount Quincy Adams, which straddle the United States border between Alaska and British Columbia, Mount Waddington is the highest peak that lies entirely within British Columbia. It and the …
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Patagonia Heliski – The Next Frontier
Gear up and launch into the Patagonian wilderness for an powder adventure where you experience the thrill of being a modern-day explorer as you pioneer new ski terrain in a mountain kingdom of over one million acres.
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Dave Treadway dies in Crevasse Fall
Dave Treadway is dead after falling into a deep crevasse while skiing in the Pemberton backcountry on Monday, April 15.
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Freeski World Champions Crowned
Canadian skier and tour rookie Tom Peiffer finished 7th in the overall ranking and is qualified for the 2020 Freeski World Tour.
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SilverStar Inbounds Isothermal Avalanche
An avalanche at SilverStar Mountain Resort on on Wednesday, March 20, on one of the mountain's black diamond runs in the Putnam Creek area, sent snowboarder Nathan Fisher to hospital.
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Mountain Terrain Choices
Rogers Pass is one of the most beautiful glacial environment mountainous regions in Western North America. Glacier skiing gives adventurous people the combined rewards of remarkable beauty and the elation of descending pristine slopes. Knowing your exposure is key to being safe when climbing and skiing. Parks Canada scale Avalanche terrain ratings for backcountry touring …
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A wicked week!
By Caleb Brown The snowbanks were so big on the drive up Rogers Pass that I drove right past the parking lot for the heli-pad. I checked my rearview, seeing no cars behind me I slammed on my brakes, reversed down the highway then entered the slit in the bank. The cars from the other …
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Canadians Top 10 in Fieberbrunn FWT19
It was a mega day in the high peaks of the Austrian Tyrol as the world’s best continued their campaigns for the Freeski World Tour 2019 crown.
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Blackcomb Lakeside Fatality
The woman and male companion crossed on foot under a roped-off permanent closure area and slipped of the summit ridge.
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