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National Ski Area Association Calls Out Outside Magazine For Saying Chairlifts Are Unsafe

The National Ski Area Association (NSAA) In rebuttal to Outside Magazine’s October 4th, 2016 Article, ‘Is Your Local Chairlift a Death Trap’: October 11, 2016 Lawrence Burke Editor-in-Chief Outside Magazine 400 Market Street Santa Fe, NM 87501 Dear Mr. Burke, I write to address serious concerns arising from Outside’s recent article “Is Your Local Chairlift a Death Trap?” The exaggerated, […]
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“Vail Is Not the Enemy” | By Derek Taylor

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(note: Derek Taylor was the editor of Powder Magazine from 2008 to 2012. He wrote this piece for Outdoor Magazine.) Vail has gotten a lot of flak recently. Their lawyer-powered acquisition of Park City ski resort in Utah has kept them in the headlines for the past year. Vail now owns 11 ski resorts: Park City & The Canyons in Utah Kirkwood, Heavenly, & Northstar in California Beaver Creek, Vail, Keystone, Breckenridge in Colorado Afton Alps in Minnesota Mount Brighton in Michigan Some think that this enormous consolidation of the ski industry is a bad thing. Derek Taylor thinks it’s a good thing. One thing is for sure: Vail’s Epic Pass […]
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Remembering the Skiers We Lost by Outside Magazine

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There have been a lot of articles the past week about what’s been going on with our ski and snowboard heros and why they keep dying. Outside Magazine wrote our favoirite thus far. They basically say: We don’t know why our ski and snowboard heros keep dying, but they do keep dying.” Then they go on to write a great piece about each of the 5 different ski and snowboard heros from someone who knew them. To anybody who follows sports in the Outside world, freeskiing has emerged as a shockingly dangerous pursuit. Over the past decade, so many of the sport’s luminaries have perished in the mountains that in December […]
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“Can Snowboarding Be Saved?”

“It sounds like borderline bigotry to say it, but I have “snowboarding friends.” In fact, from adulthood on, most of my skiing memories are tied up with snowboarding. Frankly, skiing would be a lot less fun without it. From twin tips and fat skis to better clothing and a more laissez-faire attitude at ski resorts, the advent of snowboarding dramatically altered my once-stale sport. So please trust that I’m not just a hater when I say this: Snowboarding is screwed. […]
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“How the Government Shutdown Affects Our National Parks” – Outside Magazine

We know that we’re all curious about how this government shutdown is affecting our national park. We understand that they are closed, but can we still go into them are enjoy our land, our parks, our rights? That answer appears to be decided ‘NO’. The saddest thing is that even Grand Canyon permit holders (for rafting the Colorado River) are being turned away… How the Shutdown Affects National Parks Grand Canyon permit holders turned away By: STEPHEN WAYNE KASICA Yosemite National Park turns 123 today, but […]
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