Top 5 Underrated North American Ski Resorts in The USA While the masses flock to the more widely-known ski resorts across the United States, these 5 ski areas (and their powder) are being left off the beaten path… *** Top 5 Most Underrated Ski Resorts in the USA: *** Grand Targhee, WY *** Lift passes – $85 full day, $68 half day, $1219 season’s pass Elevation – 7851 ft base, 10121 […] Featured Article Kim Vinet | March 13, 2018 1 Comment
Trip Report: Skiing Antarctica With Ice Axe Expeditions 2017 **All photos in this article are from Ice Axe Expeditions’ 2017 Antarctica trip. Powder & Sunshine. Powder & Sunshine are what defined the October/November 2017 Ice Axe Expeditions Antarctica ski trip. Crisp, dry powder skiing isn’t even thought to happen in Antarctica, we know. But in late October 2017, we skied boot deep, dreamy powder on the Antarctic Peninsula. The […] Trip Report Miles Clark | March 8, 2018 1 Comment
Trip Report: North Coulior of Thunderbolt Peak, CA | February 17th-19th, 2018 This is me. In this moment, I’m perched on a ledge about the size of a desk, on a ridge at about 13,900′, with thousands of feet of exposure on either side of me. I’m belaying my partner, Tyler Karow, as he’s about to set out over the next bump on the ridge to see if it’s the 5.9 summit […] Featured Article Roger Romani | February 22, 2018 2 Comments
Squaw Valley Conditions Report: Juneuary Today was classic Juneuary conditions. Unfortunately I missed Tahoe’s fleeting good conditions from last week. I just got back from Japan where I really can’t complain about anything, but regardless of the fact that I was skiing waist deep pow for the last 2 weeks, today was pretty darn fun. I don’t know if its the fact that the sun is still so low in the sky in January, but even when it was 60ish degrees at the base, the snow at the top of squaw was chalky and fun. Conditions Report Bevan Waite | January 30, 2018 0 Comments
Christmas Day at Grand Targhee Resort The best present is Powder. And sharing it with your best friends and family of course. The storm cam in over the weekend on and off. With a beautiful and frigid bluebird day on Sunday uncertainty was in the air, but as the Christmas Eve bonfires burned in the backyard, The precipitation began spitting fine cristals at an exorbitant rate. […] Conditions Report Aaron Lebowitz | December 26, 2017 0 Comments
August Aggression Session on The Sisters – Tahoe, CA How big was winter 2016/17 in the Tahoe region? The answer: we’re skiing non-glaciated terrain at the end of August! At around 6AM of August 24th, Joe Stewart and I ventured out on HWY 88 from South Lake Tahoe en route to Woods Lake. By just before 7AM, we were on the trail up towards The Sisters to find some late August turns. The Sisters are a few tall peaks (just above 10,000 feet) located due East of Kirkwood that hold north facing pockets of snow well into late Summer. We knew there would be snow, however, the big question for late Summer skiing is the state of the suncups. Massive suncups equate to the worst possible skiing surface known to man. Luckily, with the sun shining and a relatively easy hike up to the ski boot transition zone, we were greeted by a long steep slope with minimal suncups. Yippie! Trip Report Casey Cane | November 7, 2017 4 Comments
Telluridiculous Hiking & Chuting – Summer 2017 Summer gives us skiing’s second season…hiking and exploring those solidified slivers of snow in the backcountry of America’s largest mountains. Telluride, Colorado has some sweet high altitude north facing skiing in and around Alta Lakes and Imogene Pass. Most of the skiing in early July occurs between 12,000 and 13,500 feet. Trip Report Casey Cane | October 17, 2017 0 Comments
Patagonia Heliski: 1.3 Million Acres of Some of the Most Gorgeous Skiable Terrain on Earth Last week, I had the opportunity to heliski deep in the heart of Argentine Patagonia with the newly created Patagonia Heliski. There have been very few heliski days ever in this region. Everything we touched, was a first descent. As soon as we launched off the paddock of the farmstead, it was clear that this would be a heli experience […] Trip Report Miles Clark | September 24, 2017 4 Comments
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