Skier Tangled by Backpack on Arapahoe Basin Chairlift and His Rescuer Share The Story With Ellen Mickey Wilson is a professional slackliner and part-time ski instructor. Earlier this month, he saved Richard, a 30-yeard old friend from Broomfield, CO who was tangling by his backpack in an Arapahoe Basin chairlift. Yesterday, they both joined “The Ellen Degeneres Show” to tell their story. When Richard’s backpack became entangled in the chairlift, he ended up hanging by his neck as he […] Matias Ricci | January 18, 2017 0 Comments
Missing Skier Found Dead at Breckenridge Ski Resort, CO Yesterday Sean Haberthier, who had been reported missing last Thursday, was found unresponsive by searchers Friday morning, and pronounced dead yesterday by authorities. The 47-years-old man died of a severe skull fracture after skiing into a tree. Summit County Coroner Regan Wood reported he was not wearing a helmet at the time. Apparently, the site of the accident was the expert Lower Boneyard run off the Peak […] Matias Ricci | January 17, 2017 0 Comments
Skier Dies in Vermont After Crashing Into a Tree A Massachusetts man was killed yesterday in a skiing accident in Vermont, while skiing with his family at Sugarbush Resort. According to Vermont State Police, the man, identified as Jeffrey O’Connor, went off a groomed path and crashed head-on into a tree. State police said he suffered significant head injuries, and that he was NOT wearing a helmet. Members of […] Matias Ricci | January 17, 2017 2 Comments
VIDEO: The Freeski Crew Skis 5 Active Volcanoes in Chile, Japan and Russia Members of The Freeski Crew Marinus Höflinger, Benedikt Höflinger and Dominik Hartmann traveled the world with an objective for their 2016 movie, Escapades: to ski 5 actives volcanoes in Chile, Japan and Russia. The result of their work is really good. “It´s always impressive to climb a volcano. To ski it down afterwards makes it even better. While travelling in […] Matias Ricci | January 17, 2017 0 Comments
Search and Rescue Dog Locates Buried Avalanche Victim in Austria A 19-year-old Austrian man was caught last Wednesday in an avalanche while skiing with friends in Tyrol, and then rescued thanks to an avalanche search and rescue dog, which was able to locate him before it was too late. The man, from Tyrol, was skiing with four friends on fresh powder on Sunday when they triggered an avalanche. Another skier was […] Avalanche Matias Ricci | January 17, 2017 0 Comments
Two Snowboarders Buried, Seriously Injured in Avalanche Outside of Park City, Utah Two snowboarders were rescued late Wednesday night after becoming buried and seriously injured in an avalanche on a backcountry slope near the Smith and Morehouse Reservoir in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Around 4 p.m. Wednesday, one of the boarders jumped off a cliff, fracturing a large slab of snow. The slide carried one of the men, slamming him into trees on […] Avalanche Matias Ricci | January 16, 2017 0 Comments
VIDEO: “Into the White” | An Epic Trip Along BC’s Powder Highway With the Giro Snowboarding Team Last season, Giro professional snowboarders Bryan Fox, Curtis Ciszek, Christian Haller, Nils Mindnich and Seth Huotwent went on a trip along BC’s famous Powder Highway. This video is -at least- a proof of why the Powder Highway is called the Powder Highway. “Kingfisher B.C. was my first ever heli trip and I will definitely remember this one for the rest […] Matias Ricci | January 16, 2017 1 Comment
VIDEO: First Tracks in Mammoth After 20 Feet Of Snow On Thursday, after a 10-day storm, videographer Colin Farrell drove 16 hours to Mammoth to get some deep powder. This video proves it was worth the drive. He was there in first-chair fashion on Mammoth’s Chair 22 and documented the experience for this All Time video. “Locals were out in force today, emotions were at an all time high,” he wrote […] Matias Ricci | January 15, 2017 0 Comments
Search and Rescue Volunteer Injured by Avalanche During Mission in Colorado Routt County Search and Rescue member Jay Bowman was swept by an avalanche last Thursday during a night mission on Buffalo Pass. He broke his arm, fractured his leg and sustained a laceration to the head. Search and Rescue was called out at about 3:45 p.m. Thursday to help a skier and snowboarder who were lost and needed help getting out of the North […] Avalanche Matias Ricci | January 14, 2017 0 Comments
INFOGRAPH: 8 Interesting Facts About Avalanches After a week with lots of snow––and lots of avalanches––it is good to remind ourselves about the risks that skiing and being at the mountains involve, and more importantly, try to minimize them as much as we can. The following graphs are only a couple of interesting facts about avalanches that are good to know, but won’t save our lives. There is only one […] Brains Matias Ricci | January 12, 2017 1 Comment
Terrible Start of the Season for Europe | December Was Switzerland’s Driest Month On Record. December was ultra-dry in the mountainous heart of Europe, causing ski sales to drop considerably compared to last years’. Ski resorts in Switzerland have seen a big drop in visitors on the slopes so far this season due to the lack of snow, official figures show. Meanwhile, some French regions were declared drought zones, forcing resorts to switch off their snow cannons. A […] Matias Ricci | January 11, 2017 0 Comments
Avalanche on Vail Pass | 3 Trucks Caught and I-70 Closed Much of Tuesday A slide took place today at approximately 3:20 am in the area known as The Narrows, four miles west of the summit. Three semis were caught in it but luckily no one was injured. Prior to the avalanche, Vail Pass was closed on and off in both directions starting at 5:30 pm Monday as a winter storm pounded the area. […] Avalanche Matias Ricci | January 10, 2017 0 Comments
Three Weeks Left for First 2017 Freeride World Tour Stop | Full Calendar & Riders 5 events. 50 riders. Only three weeks left and Freeride World Tour riders will be hiking up in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc again, battling for the first win of the season. “The FWT is the worldwide circuit of freeride snowboarding and skiing with the best riders in the world competing on the most legendary and challenging alpine faces and the most renowned ski resorts across the world”. Freeride […] Matias Ricci | January 8, 2017 0 Comments
VIDEO: John Shocklee Never Grows Up in “A Fairy Tale” John Shocklee is 52 years old. But when he is on the mountain, with his skis on, he seems to be in his mid-twenties. Above of his big, frozen beard -which hides his smile-, John has a kindergarten pair of eyes. He physically feels young, and finds himself surrounded by younger people. He is a mountain guide from Silverton, CO, and […] Matias Ricci | January 7, 2017 0 Comments
It Snowed in Argentina | PHOTO TOUR North America is getting tons and tons of snow, specially in California, Colorado and Utah. Europe is having a terrible season, with little to no snow. Japan is always a winner in this game. But… what about South America? Winter in the middle of Summer? On January 3rd, while in the north regions of Argentina, temperatures rounded 50ºC (122ºF), it was […] Matias Ricci | January 5, 2017 1 Comment
Police Search for Keystone Snowboarder who Crashed Into Woman and Fled Summit County authorities are looking for a snowboarder accused of running into a skier Monday at Keystone Ski Resort, leaving her with severe leg injuries that required a five-hour surgery. The county sheriff’s office says the crash happened about 3 p.m. at the ski area’s Haywood intermediate trail near the base. The unidentified snowboarder hit the woman and left the scene […] Matias Ricci | January 4, 2017 0 Comments
First Sahara Desert Snow In 37 Years | Photo Tour The Sahara Desert is the world’s largest hot desert and its more than 9 million square kilometers cover most of North Africa. As well as being one of the driest places in the planet, it’s one of the hottest — temperatures here can reach more than 122ºF. Snow covered the small town of Ain Sefra in Algeria on December 19th and […] Matias Ricci | January 3, 2017 0 Comments
Aaron Rice Just Skied 2.5 Million Human Powered Vertical Feet In a Year December 29th is a date Aaron Rice will never forget. It sounds crazy. But he did it. It took him 364 days to ski 2.5 million self-propered vertical feet. He just showed the whole world that if you have an objetive, and you work hard to get it done, nothing can stop you. “5 Winters ago I skied ~75,000′ vert, […] Matias Ricci | December 30, 2016 10 Comments
Fernie, BC Conditions Report: 10” Overnight, Sunshine and All Terrain Open Still dark out there when the first rays of gold started to appear over the Fernie, BC mountains. 10” of fresh snow overnight. 38” over the last week, and almost 13 feet this winter already. Numbers talk by themselves. Today was going to be a good day. And it was. Sunshine and a temperature of 23ºF made it even better. All the terrain […] Conditions Report Matias Ricci | December 30, 2016 0 Comments
VIDEO: Fearless Sam Anthamatten Transforms a Labyrinth of Crevasses and Seracs Into a Playground The North Face describes him as a “fearless freerider skier”, and they couldn’t be so right. It’s already known that Sam Anthamatten likes to go big, but this video borders on the impossible. “Free-skier Sam Anthamatten was born and raised in Zermatt. Discover how he transforms the labyrinth of crevasses and seracs into a playground that only seems possible in video games”. […] Matias Ricci | December 26, 2016 0 Comments
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