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Prescription Mother Nature to the Rescue: Experience Winter in Mammoth Lakes

Brought to you by Mammoth Lakes Tourism Covid got you down? After months of the mundane, you dream of adventure, crave a change of pace, and long for a deeply satisfying breath of fresh mountain air. Luckily for you, weโ€™ve got a prescription that will fulfill these wishes and more. Itโ€™s a remedy to the blues, a medicine for the [โ€ฆ]

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Spencer Cox | March 15, 2021
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The True Value Of A Backcountry Guide: Why and How To Hire One

In this world of strong-minded athletes willing to learn by trial and error and DIY attitudes, weโ€™ve forgotten about an easier way of learning and progressing in the backcountry. The guide. Out there every day assessing snowpack, evaluating terrain and implementing the best safety techniques are incredible mountain guides who have chosen to make it their livelihood spending time outdoors [โ€ฆ]

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Alex K | February 8, 2020
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Black Ops Valdez Offers the Best Skiing in the World with the Most Experienced Guides

Brought to you by Black Ops Valdez If youโ€™ve ever dreamed of heli-skiing, no crowds, no lift lines and bottomless untracked powder every run on some of the most beautiful terrain on earth, then look no further than Black Ops Valdez. Located in the middle of the eastern Chugach Mountains surrounding Valdez and Thompson Pass, Black Ops Valdez offer over [โ€ฆ]

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Steven Agar | January 27, 2020
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Mountain Guides Accept Plea Bargain as they Face Charges of Manslaughter Over Avalanche Death of Skier they were Guiding

Italian alps, guides charged, avalanche

Two mountain guides have accepted a plea bargain over the death of a British banker after an off-piste expedition in the Italian Alps turned to disaster, reports the Telegraph. Graeme Porteous was killed when fresh snow turned to liquid beneath him, sweeping him 100-feet down a mountain. During a trip to north-west Italy in February 2015, Mr. Porteous and two friends employed [โ€ฆ]

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | April 17, 2018
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Avalanche Airbags โ€“ They Donโ€™t Make You Invincibleโ€ฆ

Our good friend, SnowBrains author, and skier with more avalanche terrain experience the most of us combined, Dโ€™Arcy McLeish, just wrote this great piece for Last Frontier Heli in Northern British Columbia about Avalanche Airbags.Dโ€™Arcy touches on some very important topics that we all need to keep in mind when weโ€™re using avalanche airbags. (video of avy airbag being used [โ€ฆ]

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Avatar photo SnowBrains | August 15, 2013
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