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NOAA: Up to 6″ of Snow Forecast in Next 3 Days in the Western USA

A series of storms will be marching across the Western US this week dropping up to 6″ inches of snow in Idaho along with a few inches of snow in California, Montana, and Utah this week. Below, we have all the information NOAA has released about the snow coming this week in Idaho, California, Montana, and California. A series of weather disturbances will keep weather active through much of the week. The first disturbance will […]
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NOAA: 4″ of Snow Forecast for Idaho This Weekend

The storm that dropped up to 6″ of snow on Oregon and Washington yesterday is now romping through Idaho. Idaho is forecast to get 1-4″ of snow today. Try not to forget, it’s summer. It’s September. It’s summer, and it’s snowing. This is a good thing. “It will be rainy, snowy and cool this weekend, especially across the Central Mountains and Upper Snake Highlands. 1-4” of snow with locally higher amounts are expected in the Central […]
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Avalanche Fatality in Sawtooth Mountains, Idaho on Sunday

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A fa๏ปฟtal avalanche occurred in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho at 2pm on Sunday, February 16th, 2014. Four snowmobilers were buried in the avalanche and one was killed. It was a terrible avalanche week in North America last week with 2 avalanche deaths in Oregon, 2 avalanche deaths in Utah, 4 avalanche deaths in Colorado, and one avalanche death in British Columbia. 15 people have died in avalanches in the USA this winter. An avalanche in the Frenchman Creek drainage (northwest of Galena Summit) buried 4 snowmobilers on Sunday February […]
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Friday Fun: Mike Wilson’s Railslide + BASE Jump

Mike Wilson should move to Hollywood and become a stunt man. The things he does just aren’t possible for anyone but him. He somehow pulls off feats that make no sense to mortal man and he does it unscathed. One of his latest stunts was a Railslide BASE Jump. How you feasibly do that? We don’t know. You just have to watch the video. For their new movie, โ€œMutiny,โ€ Stept Productions and skier Mike Wilson came up with a seemingly crazy concept: a handrail to ski BASE jump off of the Perrine bridge in Twin Falls, Idaho, one of Americaโ€™s only bridges you can legally BASE jump off. Shout […]
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Sun Valley, Idaho Conditions Report: Fresh Pow Over the Weekend

Like many resorts on the west coast, the ski season is off to a slow start here in Sun Valley, but the conditions have been surprisingly good. Thanks to one of the most sophisticated snowmaking systems in the world, while the surrounding area has been dry and brown, we have been skiing over 3000 vertical feet of good quality snow since early December. The majority of the mountain was open before we received any significant snowfall, and last weekend a winter storm finally arrived to bless us with much-needed new snow. With Baldy […]
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Avalanche Death in Snake River Range, ID on Dec. 26th

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The same day that an avalanche took a skier’s life on Jackson Hole’s Pucker Face, another avalanche took another life in the Snake River Range. The day was December 26th, 2013.There was also a natural avalanche that occurred on Taylor Mountain, WY on Christmas day that involved no humans (see photo above). The Snake River Range avalanche occurred at 2:45pm on December 26th and involved […]
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