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Slopes App Update Provides 2,000+ Interactive 3D Ski Maps in the Palm of Your Hand

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Researching trails, topography, and other aspects of resorts can be a valuable strategy for planning days on the mountain, and a new app called Slopes offers a way to map out the best possible day at the resort. Slopes provides users with a globe that includes ski resorts from North America, Europe, Australia, Japan, and others and spans across IKON, […]

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Quinn Brophy | December 2, 2024
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FATMAP Partners with Strava for The Ultimate Backcountry Experience

Backcountry Navigation

On Monday, Strava, the subscription platform at the center of connected fitness, announced the acquisition of FATMAP, a mobile app for discovering, planning, navigating, and memorializing outdoor adventures. The acquisition will give Strava subscribers access to the full FATMAP offering. FATMAP is a 3D mapping and outdoor navigation company used heavily in the backcountry. I love FATMAP, it has all […]

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Luke Guilford | January 25, 2023
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New onX Backcountry App Increases Avalanche Preparedness

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The latest product from the outdoors-focused company onXmaps is the app onX Backcountry. This newest offering is the third in onX’s lineup of GPS-oriented apps dedicated to outdoorsmen and explorers. With the number of backcountry skiers having increased dramatically in recent decades, the need for a product tailored toward those leaving the resorts behind has never been greater. The app […]

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Jake Vigesaa | December 1, 2021
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Topographic Ski Maps: A New Way of Tracking Resort Days

Navigating your favorite ski resort just became that much easier with the help of a new and improved ski resort map. SkiMap.com is designing topographic ski resort maps that will be available to the public. Striving to provide advanced and technically accurate maps, all data, pictures, and reference materials are utilized from each mountain. Working as an independent entity, the […]

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Emily Crofton | February 19, 2020
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Colorado is Not a Square

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Colorado is not a square. The maps you’ve been seeing since elementary school have fooled you.  They fooled us all.  In fact, the Centennial state has a whopping 697 sides.  That makes it a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon.  Now that’s a mouthful. There are three states in the U.S. that appear to have all straight, rectangular borders on the map.  Those would be Utah, […]

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Jack Conroy | October 1, 2019
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Interactive Topography Map: What Would You Design?

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  The cost of moving significant volumes of earth, much less changing the entire topography of a mountain, is so great that the ski industry could never support it. Only the promise of uncovering precious metals or other valuable natural resources prompts enough activity to even begin making a dent. And let’s face it, mining operations aren’t exactly leaving behind […]

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Jon Roubik | January 11, 2019
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US Snow Cover & Snow Depth Right Now VS Last Year:

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It’s no secret that it’s been damn cold in the USA and that snow cover has been much higher than normal for this time of year. Last year had less overall snow coverage but where we had snow, then snow was deep last year in many spots. Just look at the snow coverage map for this year! Idaho, Montana, Utah, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada are nearly completely covered in snow. Even California is pretty darned buried. Impressive. The far northern rockies and the far northern pacific northwest do have deeper snowpacks this year compared to last year, though. […]

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