Silver Mountain, ID, Report: A Very Tall, Long, World-Class Bike Park in the Panhandle of Idaho Report from June 8-9, 2024 Views of lush green forests and deep blue lakes came more and more into view as we gained elevation on Silver Mountainโs gondola on Saturday morning. Idahoโs Panhandle is even more gorgeous from the air, I thought as we sailed along Americaโs longest gondola. The day was sunny, warm but not too much so, and [โฆ] Cycle Martin Kuprianowicz | June 11, 2024 0 Comments
14,179โฒ Mount Shasta, CA, Report: Angry Mountain Prompts Bail; Still a Nice 3,500โฒ of Slush Skiing, Though Report from Tuesday, June 4 In 1870, German biologist Ernst Haeckel suggested that a sunken continent called Lemuria could be the ancestral home of humanity, potentially explaining the โmissing linksโ in the fossil record of early humans. Haeckel was not a subscriber to Charles Darwinโs Theory of Evolution. In America, Lemuria has become most closely associated with Mount Shasta in [โฆ] Conditions Report Martin Kuprianowicz | June 5, 2024 0 Comments
Mammoth Mountain, CA, Report: Ski Area Closes but Bike Park Opens Report from Friday, May 31, 2024 All aboard! The first thing I noticed about the shuttle bus when it pulled up was the bike rack attached to the back that could hold what appeared to be two dozen mountain bikes. It was Friday, the first week after Mammoth shut down its ski operations, and the bus was fairly empty, meaning [โฆ] Cycle Martin Kuprianowicz | May 31, 2024 0 Comments
Surfing Oregon โ Why, When, Where? A cold, wild coast that can regularly generate numbers like 24-foot swells at 8-second intervals with 100mph wind gusts and a sea temperature of 46 degrees, Oregon is neither for the faint of heart nor the physically frail. But it does have some damn good surfing, and for all levels despite its notoriety. Pronounced โorgan,โ by locals, the coastal state [โฆ] Surf Martin Kuprianowicz | May 29, 2024 0 Comments
[PHOTO TOUR] The 3rd Annual Mammoth Mountain, CA, Yacht Club Iโve never seen a ski resort celebrate its Closing Day like Mammoth does with Yacht Club. It was purely wild and hilariously creative. For Saturday of Closing Day Weekend, Mammoth Mountain hosted its third annual Yacht Club boat races, where daring guests raced down a frozen track at breakneck speeds in homemade โboatsโ constructed only from three basic home materials for a [โฆ] Martin Kuprianowicz | May 29, 2024 0 Comments
Mammoth Mountain, CA, Capping Off Season with Stylish Closing Weekend Festivities Before Big Summer Project to Upgrade Chair 1 with High-Speed 6-Pack Freedom tastes like corn. Come springtime across the Mountain West, lingering snow that fell throughout the winter starts undergoing a melt-freeze cycle where the high sun angle and accompanying warm temperatures soften snow that froze the night before, creating a smooth-as-a-pool-table sensation that is known to skiers and snowboarders as โcorn snowโ. It feels like youโre riding on glass. Because of [โฆ] Industry News Martin Kuprianowicz | May 24, 2024 0 Comments
British Climber and His Nepali Guide Missing After Cornice Collapse Disaster on Mount Everest View this post on Instagram A post shared by Vinayak jaya malla (@malla.mountaineer) (Video 1: Before the cornice collapsed.) (Video 2: After the cornice collapsed.) (Video 3: After repairing the route, climbers are passing.) Footage captured near the summit of Mount Everest on Tuesday shows both the moments before and the aftermath following a large snow cornice collapse that involved [โฆ] Climbing Martin Kuprianowicz | May 23, 2024 0 Comments
From North Korea to Venezuela, This is โSkiing Around The Worldโ with Jimmy Petterson 74-year-old Jimmy Petterson might be a traditional skier, but he does not ski in traditional places. In 2010, he went on an expedition to Venezuela to ski 16,207-foot Pico Humboldt in the Venezuelan Andes. It was late October when he arrived in the university city of Merida of about 310,000 people, although it did seem much smaller. Narrow cobblestone streets [โฆ] Martin Kuprianowicz | May 12, 2024 1 Comment