Treble Cone, NZ Coniditions Report VIDEO + Photo Tour: Full Send Report from Josh Anderson and Ben Paciotti on July 25, 2016 Today was full-send at Treble Cone. After an hour or two of patrol bombing, Saddle Basin opened with 30 cm of wind buffed pow and a full on Chinese Downhill from the saddle to the chair. Once things were rolling, it was game on, with bomb holes appearing below […] Conditions Report Guest Author | July 26, 2016 0 Comments
Whistler Bike Park Conditions Report: Summer is Here After a rainy June and July, Summer has arrived here in Whistler! It was like our own private mountain this weekend, as the Ironman Canada Triathlon caused many road closures on Sunday. The result was almost ZERO lift lines all weekend, even on the lower mountain! The trails are drying out, especially down low. Lower A-line (tech), Family Cross, Lower […] Biking Guest Author | July 25, 2016 0 Comments
VIDEO: Whistler’s Best Trails.. On A Road Bike! Credit- GoPro So you’re stoked that you just started clearing all the jumps on Whistler’s signature trail, A-Line? Sit back down and watch this video. Yoann Barelli rides it on his cross bike- with drop bars. A-Line is regarded by some riders as the best bike park trail in the world. It was built about 15 years ago and was […] Biking Guest Author | July 22, 2016 3 Comments
Are You Enduro? The last 10 years in mountain biking have seen some pretty significant changes both in technology and riding style. The word enduro wasn’t ever used to describe mountain bikes, it was strictly a dirt bike thing. But it came from the same idea: a stage race. As bigger wheels become more popular (29″, 27.5) it is becoming easier and easier for […] Biking Guest Author | July 20, 2016 0 Comments
Enduro World Series 2017 Announced Five years ago, race organizers around the planet got together and decided to start an international race series that took the best mountain bikers in the world and put them up against some of the most epic trails around. The EWS was born! These days, the Enduro World Series attracts not only the world’s fittest mountain bikers, but also some […] Biking Guest Author | July 20, 2016 0 Comments
VIDEO: The Sights & Sounds of Ice Breaking | US Coast Guard Uses “Ice Knife” [iframe id=”https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FOceanExplorationResearch%2Fvideos%2F915788555191171%2F&show_text=0&width=400″] “Despite reports of declining ice cover in the Arctic, the Chukchi Borderlands expedition team quickly learned that ‘low ice coverage’ does not mean ‘no ice coverage,’ as the Chukchi Sea is currently a mosaic of ice floes and open water that has been a challenge to break through. In this video, the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy moves […] Guest Author | July 19, 2016 0 Comments
VIDEO: Sending it with Style in British Columbia, Canada with the Coastal Crew Credit: Coastal Crew We love the Coastal Crew’s style. They just make eveything look so effortless. Though they aren’t throwing the biggest tricks in biking right now, their smooth riding speaks for itself, and they could arguably be the best trail builders in Canada. This video makes great use of a camera stabilizer called a Gimbal. It enables a ton of camera […] Biking Guest Author | July 19, 2016 0 Comments
Whistler Bike Park Conditions Report: Hero Dirt Report From 7/17/16 Ask any local, conditions at Whistler right now are as good as it gets for mid- July. We have been blessed with daily rain showers, everything is moist and tacky, especially first thing in the morning. Thunder has been an issue: lifts have been shut down in the afternoon fairly regularly so get out there early! This […] Biking Guest Author | July 18, 2016 0 Comments
Treble Cone, NZ Conditions Report: Variably Awesome Report, photos and video by Josh Anderson and Ben Paciotti Today at Treble Cone was the best skiing day that we’ve had in New Zealand so far. For the first half of the day, we just had Home Basin with some longish lines, but the top half was skiing quite well. The bottom part of Home Basin was a bit punchy […] Conditions Report Guest Author | July 17, 2016 0 Comments
NOAA Diminishes Chance of La Nina in Winter 2016/17: NOAA just dropped the chances of La Nina forming this winter from 75% to 55-60%. “However, the 55-60% chance for La Niña represents a noticeable drop in probability from last month, which had peak probabilities of about 75%. Why the decrease? A typical cop-out answer would be “The ENSO forecast models now show a decrease in the likelihood, and […] Weather Guest Author | July 14, 2016 3 Comments
USA National MTB Championships This Weekend @ Mammoth! Links & Video This weekend, Mammoth is hosting the USA Cycling National Championships. The best riders in the country will be battling over the most coveted prize in USA Cycling racing: the Stars and Stripes Jersey. Mammoth Bike Park is always a blast. A gondola lap gives you over 3000 vertical feet of real big-mountain terrain From their endless technical terrain to the perfect […] Biking Guest Author | July 14, 2016 0 Comments
Whistler Bike Park Conditions Report: Rain Can’t Stop a Good Time Report from July 12th, 2016 Summer is upon us here at Whistler, and it has been a wet one so far. Trails are in great shape overall and are constantly changing. Lower mountain has been consistently fast and tacky, A-Line, B-Line, Dirt Merchant, Schleyer- all take the water nicely. The sun came out yesterday (Sunday) and even some of the tech […] Biking Guest Author | July 12, 2016 0 Comments
VIDEO: Massive Bike Air Session in Kamloops, BC: Aggy’s Reunion “The FEST is a series of rider driven invitational events. It was was created by a crew of the most talented and progressive professional FREERIDERS, recognized around the world for their riding, track building and media production skills. The original 6 FEST riders are: Andreu Lacondeguy, Nico Vink, Makken, Nick Pescetto, Kurt Sorge and Graham Agassiz. The FEST brings out the […] Biking Guest Author | July 12, 2016 0 Comments
NOAA: Tropical Pacific Continued to Cool in June 2016 Tropical Pacific continued to cool in June 2016 Author: Rebecca Lindsey/NOAA July 7, 2016 The tropical Pacific Ocean is at the heart of ENSO. Short for El Niño-Southern Oscillation, ENSO is a natural climate pattern in which the central/eastern tropical Pacific swings back and forth between a warm and rainy state (El Niño) and a cooler and drier state (La Niña). […] Weather Guest Author | July 12, 2016 0 Comments
VIDEO: Ripping Squaw Valley, CA Hard at 52-Years-Old “After 4 sub-par years at Squaw we finally got an average snowfall year. This is why we ski here! The only issue is I’m 4 years older but so what, being 52 is just a number! I spent most of the season with the old Squaw dogs, Larry Segal, Nancy Elrod, Steve Taves and my wife, Carolyn Saputo. We compete […] Guest Author | July 10, 2016 1 Comment
MTB World Cup Results: Lenzerheide DH Sunday was the fifth round of the UCI Downhill Mountain Bike World Cup. The world’s best racers compete in this circuit every summer to determine who is fastest. Danny Hart (GBR) came out on top! Danny is always fun to watch, always riding fully pinned. It was his first ever World Cup win. Aaron Gwin (USA) came in second by less […] Biking Guest Author | July 9, 2016 0 Comments
Stevens Pass, WA Bike Park Conditions Report: Perfect Dirt July 7th – Stevens Pass Bike Park Stevens Pass is located about 90 minutes NW of Seattle in the Cascade mountains between Monroe and Leavenworth. it is home to some of the best lift- accessed skiing in the Northwest. Stevens started building their bike park a few years ago, and there are nine trails total. There are plans for […] Conditions Report Guest Author | July 8, 2016 0 Comments
VIDEO: Sick Drone Footage of Ripping “Main Chute” at Alta on June 25th “Summer solstice means biking, running, or some other warm weather activity for most people. Not me…I’m never over it and jump at any chance to ski. I convinced my frequent summer adventure partner, my dad, that trekking up Alta in search of June snow would be epic. After a slightly sketchy scramble, I was on top of Baldy and finally […] Guest Author | July 1, 2016 0 Comments
NOAA VIDEO: Watch El Nino Switch La Nina | “The Death of El Nino” The Life and Death of El Niño Author: Michelle L’Heureux/NOAA June 23, 2016 Over the last couple of months, we’ve been witnessing a tremendous fall from the peak of one of the strongest El Niño events on record. Sea surface temperatures in the Niño-3.4 region of the east-central equatorial Pacific Ocean have cooled down over three degrees Fahrenheit since January! The […] Weather Guest Author | June 23, 2016 0 Comments
STUDY: Sierra Nevada, CA Snowpack Not Likely To Recover From Drought Until 2019 SIERRA NEVADA SNOWPACK NOT LIKELY TO RECOVER FROM DROUGHT UNTIL 2019 by the American Geophysical Union WASHINGTON, DC — Even with this winter’s strong El Niño, the Sierra Nevada snowpack will likely take until 2019 to return to pre-drought levels, according to new research. Additionally, researchers suggest their new method, which provided unprecedented detail and precision, could be useful in […] Industry News Guest Author | June 22, 2016 0 Comments
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