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10″ of Powder at Snowbird, UT Today| Snow Forecasted All Week!

Utah is doing the big snow during late season thing again. They did it last year, too. Ok, gimme a break, they do it every year. There is something about late season pow and Utah… As of 11pm PST today, Snowbird has gotten 5″ of snow in the past 24 hours and 10″ of snow in the past 48 hours. They have a base depth of 108″ and they’ve now gotten 418″ of snow this season. I guess we’ll have to update that 15 Biggest Snowfall Totals in North America after this storm. It’s still snowing at Snowbird right now and it’s forecast to snow all week long. Snowbird is open daily until May 26th. Boom. […]
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Wintery Snow! Squaw Conditions Report and Photo Tour – 3/11

The sun was out and the wind was blowing for a beautiful blue bird Tahoe day today. With 4″ of new snow at the peaks and most of the good upper mountain terrain closed on Monday, we hit Headwall and Granite hard all morning. There was definitely amazing snow to be skied all over the place, but with the heavy winds, icy patches were prevalent as well. You really had to be on top of you game to transition between the chalky goodness and the icy madness between turns. We found the best […]
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Japan Report: Avalanche Fences Are Damn Fun to Jump Off

There are no two ways about it: avalanche fences are fun to jump off. The only tricky part is finding these elusive metal bulwarks. North America doesn’t have ’em, Europe does (but they don’t seem to fill in), Hokkaido has tons of them on the side of the road, but we’re on the isle of Honshu, Japan which certainly isn’t famous for its avy fences. Nevertheless, if you look hard enough, you can […]
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113″ of Snow in 11 Days @ Crystal Mountain, WA | Video & Photos

Crystal Mountain ski resort in Washington just got clobbered with 113″ of snow in the past 11 days. They just got 19″ yesterday. The snow machine is on full speed! We picked up another 19 inches in the past 24 hours. This is just incredible! The 11 day storm total is 113 inches (that’s over 9 feet). The stoke meter is off the charts! – Crystal Mountain Unfortunately, a skier suffocated in a tree well in the deep snow at Crystal yesterday. He was reported missing and quickly found by patrol. The patroller applied CPR but the victim did not recover. More info here: […]
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