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San Francisco Premier of “Pretty Faces” – The All Girl Ski Movie – on October 25th:

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Get ready to hoot an holler! Coalition Snow, a Tahoe-based women’s ski and snowboard company, and GoodPeople, the Bay Area’s online marketplace for independent outdoor and action sports brands, are excited to announce that joining the roster of ski films dropping this fall in San Francisco will be the first-ever, crowd- sourced, crowd-funded all-women’s ski movie, “Pretty Faces.” “Pretty Faces” premiers on Saturday, October 25th, at the Brava Theater in the Mission at 6:30 p.m. Get your tickets at http://bit.ly/prettyfacessf. Stoke will be high and we guarantee a good time! Athletes from the […]
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Trip Report: Skiing Iceland from Summit to Sea

We are on an island just below the Arctic circle surrounded by the stormy North Atlantic. Even though people have lived here for more than a thousand years it is still a wilderness of glaciers, mountains and thermal pools. Nature’s powers are felt everywhere. Arctic winds assault us and storms throw snow, hail and ice into our faces. Though it is April, winter’s vice like grip is firmly holding on. In fact it had started snowing that “winter” in September. On a typical day of spring skiing, the Icelandic weather changes every 20 minutes or […]
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The Sketchiest 60º Chute in Argentina: “The Paraguayan Tropic Couloir”

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This video features a heavy couloir, called the Paraguayan Tropic couloir, with 60 degrees plus. It was probably the most consistently long, narrow and steep coulior I have tried to ski, and it was a great adventure. This run is in Guadalajara, Malargüe, and we were forced to use the Alejo/Dorian handmade pitons for 2 rappels during the descent due to low snow. It was kind of like rock climbing with no options of bailing off the route. […]
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Mammoth Mountain, CA Acquires Bear Mountain, CA and Snow Summit, CA for $38 Million:

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Mammoth is making some BIG moves after signing deals to acquire Bear Mountain and Snow Summit bringing the total to 4 California ski resorts. Mammoth’s CEO Rusty Gregory has stated we can expect big news in the upcoming months about development and expansion for the resorts. The MOST important news? Mammoth MVP pass holders have all been upgraded to the […]
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VIDEO: Heli Skiing From a Chairlift @ Las Lenas, Argentina…

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This is a video of skiing on the big epic pow day of September 4th, 2014. It shows some of the lines where I have been trying to improve my skiing by chilling with the Catalans, mostly adri Millan. But also Txema trull, Alejo Sanchez, and Mike Hamilton were there on this amazing day. It shows a bunch of runs on cerro fosiles, accessed by a chairlift. And this video should help give you some insight into why I love it here in Argentina so much, because things like this are fun. Thanks to all the friends […]
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Trip Report: Skiing Alaska-Like Terrain Inside the Crater of a Active Chilean Volcano

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Staring into the crater of Volcan Puyehue, it’s hard to believe that it’s been barely a year since Argentina and Chile felt the full force of the eruption of this volcano, blanketing towns with ash, closing airports and halting the local tourist economy. The destruction is evident all along the highway between Bariloche, Argentina and the Chilean border. For now, the mountain lies […]
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