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Cliff Jumping @ California’s Best Swimming Hole: God’s Bath

God's Bath Swimming Hole, california, Tuolumne County,

God’s Bath is one of thousands of secret swimming holes in the California foothills. The CA foothills hide a plethora of ideal swim holes with their hot summertime temperatures (often in the 100s), ice cold streams (water that was snow about an hour before), plentiful H2O, and wildly varied geography. This complex combination makes for some truly invigorating swimming hole experiences. […]
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Jackson Hole Building Controversial New Chair: The Teton Lift

Jackson Hole will begin working on building a new lift this summer that will be ready for the 2014/16 ski season. The lift will be named the Teton lift and it will take skiers 1,600-vertical-feet and drop them off very near the entrance to Granite Canyon at the Northern boundary of the ski resort. Granite Canyon is within the Grand Teton National Park and it holds some killer terrain. Almost too […]
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Detailed 2013/14 Ocean Beach, California Season Recap:

The below chart is from Wunderground. They have a weather station somewhere near Kelly’s and it records all kinds of meteorological data continuously, including wind direction and speed. You can see the average daily wind direction and speed for August 1, 2013 through April 31, 2014. Remember all those good days we had in December and January? Well, they can pretty much be explained by the average wind direction being E on those days. Additionally, there were very few low-pressure systems that rolled through the […]
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Avalanche Kills Three Climbers in Kamchatka, Russia

Last Friday, a group of 10 climbers were ascending the north face of the 15,042-foot Kamen (stone) volcano in Kamchatka when an avalanche came down on them. Two of the climbers were killed, one is still missing, and 7 survived the avalanche. Of the survivors, four were injured and three were hospitalized. “According to the surviving tourists from the group of 10 people, on Friday morning they decided to climb the Kamen volcano from […]
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VIDEO: Bat Caca Crazy Ripping in Las Lenas This Week…

This video is our boy Adira Millan getting bat caca crazy at Las Lenas, Argentina on August 4th, 2014. Think this guy knows these lines well… Whoa! These words are by our boy Eike Poppelmeier. Marte Powder Day Monday 4th of august After a few rain/snow storms in the past week the upper part of the mountain has finaly filled in nicely. With no wind in the forecast – a blue bird […]
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The New York Times Calls for Federal Legalization of Marijuana in the USA:

Two of the best skiing states in the USA lead the charge to legalize marijuana. Washington gets the most snow of any state and legalized recreational marijuana last month. Colorado gets the most skier visits of any state and legalized recreational marijuana on January 1st, 2014. Since legalization, Colorado has seen a 53% drop in the Denver murder rate, the most skier visits in 2014 than […]
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Red Bull/MSP’s 2-Year Movie Trailer: “Days of My Youth”

Red Bull & MSP just released their latest trailer for their 2-year movie project: “Days of My Youth”. This won’t be their last trailer for this movie. The trailer is OK, but might be about 1:30 too long. There is no skiing at all in the trailer until the 1:25 minute mark. There is a line at the end that is some sort of long, skinny, tunnel chute that is very cool. It does seem since Sherpa Cinema’s “All. I. Can.” and the explosion of internet ski porn that people now have to have a story associated with their ski movie. MSP hasn’t done a storyline style ski movie […]
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