Top 10 National Parks Ranked by Yearly Visits The United States is home to some of the most diverse and beautiful scenery in the US. We are lucky enough to have lots of this land protected in the form of wilderness areas, state parks, and national parks. Here are the top 10 US national parks ranked by popularity. All data was taken from Far and Wide. #10 โ […] Clay Malott | July 8, 2020 0 Comments
Housing in Ski Towns | Getting Your Foot In the Door You’ve sent in your job applications, packed your gear, and are ready to spend your winter out west.ย Powder days and party nights await, but one thing every mountain person has asked themselves at one point or another, “Where am I going to live?” Finding a roof over your head in a ski town requires some planning, a little luck, […] Katy Shipley | July 6, 2020 3 Comments
Top 10 Ski Resorts in North America A simple, yet acutely accurate equation has been developed by leading industry professionals to create this complex ski resort ranking system: Rank = [Average Snowfall + Access to Challenging Terrain] x Radness Factor (RF) […] Featured Article SnowBrains | July 3, 2020 150 Comments
Comparing the True Size of Every Country Most representations of the world do not accurately project their true size, this visualization does. The Mercator projectionย is a cylindrical projection of the world that was created for nautical navigation. This projection, while the most common projection, has a large flawโit distorts the size of most countries. Related: Map Created Overlaying Modern Countries on Pangea The largest problem with projecting […] Brains Alex Camerino | July 3, 2020 16 Comments
Death By Selfie: Why Selfies Are Turning Deadly While we huck ourselves off of cliffs, jumps, and cornices, during the ski season a simple selfie doesn’t seem like something that we should worry too much about, but what might surprise you is that selfie deaths are becoming more and more common. This is because people are so focused on getting the perfect photo of themselves that they forget […] Industry News Brian Werner | July 3, 2020 1 Comment
Remembering Bronisลaw Czech: The Polish Olympic Skier Sent to a Nazi Death Camp 80 Years Ago What’s special about June 14?ย Well, it’s essentially a day where hell became a real place on earth 80 years ago.ย That place was called Auschwitz. Because on June 14, 1940, the Germans brought 728 Polish political prisoners to the Auschwitz camp, which was still under construction at the time. Among them was a man named Bronisลaw Czech. Bronisลaw Czech is […] Industry News Martin Kuprianowicz | June 26, 2020 0 Comments
Dendrochronology: History From a Tree’s Perspective Dendrochronology is, most simply, the study of tree rings. But why should we care about the rings on a tree that you can usually only see after a tree has been cut down? Leonardo da Vinci was the first person to note that tree’s rings responded to their surrounding climate.ย After his observation in the early 14th-century dendrochronology progressed slowly as […] Brains Alex Camerino | June 26, 2020 0 Comments
How To: Set Up Your Bike Tires Tubeless Tubeless tires are old technology at this point, but I know a surprising number of people that haven’t converted.ย Either they don’t care or just think it’s too complicated. In fact, I ran inner tubes for an embarrassing amount of time before finally taking the leap. Why do it? You’ll get less flats and it’s an easy way to cut up […] Cycle Mike Lavery | June 24, 2020 3 Comments
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