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

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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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NOAA Report: “How El Nino Will Impact the USA”

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By this point, most of you have heard that it looks like El Niño is coming, and maybe you’re wondering why you should care. After all, why should it matter if the tropical Pacific Ocean becomes warmer than average? That’s thousands of miles away from the continental United States. Well, it turns out that El Niño often results in changes in the patterns of precipitation and temperature across many parts of the globe, including North America (Ropelewski and Halpert 1987, Halpert and Ropelewski 1992). Many folks probably remember the heavy rainfall, flooding, and landslides that occurred in California in 1982/83 and again in 1997/98. As the […]
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GEAR REVIEW: Arc’teryx Vertical SV Gloves

The Arc’teryx Vertical SV glove is the short cuff version of their big gauntlet glove, the Alpha SV. With a full leather palm, beefy fleece interior and a Gore-Tex membrane to keep you dry, these gloves just look burly. After wearing them on most of the colder, wetter days throughout a whole winter season, I can safely say, they stand up as well as most things Arc’teryx makes. They were bomber. At first glance, these gloves are a little strange and chunky looking. Thick, anatomically curved fingers gave me pause as to how they would perform doing anything that required a little dexterity. While they struggled with finer movements at first, […]
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Patagonia Down Sweater Review

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An essential member of every backcountry rider or winter shredder’s coat collection is the puffy jacket. For this Patagonia down sweater review the jacket has seen it all. From blustery changeovers on exposed ridges to treks home from the bars on cloudless nights, warmth is key and down is king. Patagonia has become widely recognized as a crafter of outstanding quality and environmentally responsible gear, and now even beer. The Patagonia down sweater hoody is an iconic, stylish, and backcountry tested down jacket. With one-inch baffles the down sweater is toasty, without making you look like the Michelin Man. In a crowded […]
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Gear Review: 2014 Flylow Chemical Pants

Differences between last years model and the 2013/14 Quantum: New Fabric: Tougher and with a better DWR and just all around nicer from the previously used Amaterrace Fabric mill that makes eVent
New Factory: Flylow is using a Gore certified factory that used to make all of Cloudviels high end shell before they sold to Spyder and so on. They are the bomb factory, smooth taping and perfect construction.
New Seam Tape: Coming from Bemis. Flylow is using the best seam tape they can […]
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Hestra Heli & XCR Gloves – REVIEW

I work as a ski patroller, and finding a glove that can withstand the abuse of the job, keep my hands warm and dry and actually last the season is difficult. While not perfect, Hestra has a couple of gloves on offer that come pretty close. Understand that no glove is going to do everything, and the debate between leather and synthetics can be a long one. I choose leather. Sure, it’s a little high maintenance and requires constant treatment with wax to keep it waterproof, but if you take care of them, leather gloves are durable and tough. I’ve used two different Hestra gloves over the last few years, both gauntlet gloves from their […]
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D’Arcy McLeish |
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