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February 2019 Makes Top 5 Snowiest Months in Mammoth Mountain, CA History

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[Sponsored by Mammoth Mountain] Mammoth Mountain, California is known for its mega storms and deep snowpack. Mammoth often sees record-breaking snowfall and is no stranger to skiing on the Fourth of July. It’s no surprise the resort currently has the deepest snowpack in the country and most season snowfall to date (606″ total snowfall at the summit and 405″ at […]
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National Parks – Past, Present and Future | 5 Oldest Parks and a New One Coming?

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For over 100 years, the National Parks Service has been striving to protect and manage our national parks, monuments and reservations.  From Yellowstone to Yosemite, the NPS preserves our natural wonders for the future generations. Some of the first parks established remain the most iconic. “[the Service] purpose is to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and […]
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VIDEO: Ayumu Hirano Makes History by Landing Back-to-Back 1440’s at X Games

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History was made on Sunday at the 2018 Winter X Games in Aspen, CO as Ayumu Hirano became the first snowboarder to ever land back-to-back 1440s in a halfpipe competition, scoring a near-perfect 99.00 to claim the gold medal in the Snowboard SuperPipe competition, reports tetongravity.com. The 19-year-old Japanese wunderkind was already sitting on a score of 96.66 and in first place […]
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Go Mikaela! Shiffrin Claims 40th World Cup Victory | Just 2 away from World Cup History

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A day after achieving her 39th World Cup victory, Mikaela Shiffrin (Vail, CO) swept towards World Cup history with her 40th victory in Sunday’s slalom at Kranjska Gora, Slovenia. In spite of a touch of flu, the rainy weather, and adverse course conditions, Shiffrin opened up a 1.47sec first run advantage and on her second run extended her winning margin […]
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The History of Mt. Bachelor, OR

Mt. Bachelor averages 463″ of snowfall each year prompting humans to build a ski resort there in 1958. Bill Healy was the man who started the ski resort they called Bachelor Butte at the time. The initial ski resort consisted of one rope tow and one platter lift (poma) that pulled skiers 1,000-vertial feet up the mountain. A lift ticket to Bachelor Butte in 1958 would have set you back $3.00. After the initial rope tow and poma lift, the first chairlifts were the Black chair in 1961, Red chair in […]
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Brain Post: 5 HIstorical Concepts That Simply Aren’t True

There are many concepts from history that we simply accept as true. They’ve been perpetuated in movies, on TV, in books, in songs, on billboards, everywhere. So, they must be true, right? Wrong. An abundance of these type of “facts” exist in our everyday pop culture and we are deceived by them daily. CGP Grey gives us a solid and entertaining rundown of 5 historical myths that simply aren’t true and why the aren’t true. Interesting stuff, for sure. […]
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“A Change in Saddle” | A Squaw Valley Skier’s Migration to Kicking Horse, B.C.

In 1858, while exploring potential routes for the Canadian Pacific Railway, geologist Jimmy Hector lost control of his horse and was kicked unconscious. With several failed attempts at recovery by his companions, Hector was presumed dead. The details are not clear, but sometime later, while being carried to his grave, Hector miraculously rose to life and regained consciousness. He eventually […]
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