winter sports

Hometown Mountain Shoutout: Whitefish Mountain Resort, MT – A Hidden Skiing and Snowboarding Oasis

If you want to escape the exorbitant prices of the big, corporately-owned mountains and experience exceptional winter sports, Whitefish Mountain Resort is the place to be. Located in the Northwest of the “Treasure state,” the resort’s peak is relatively low at 6,817 feet, but don’t let that low elevation fool you; the average snowfall is 320 inches over a  five-year average, […]
Oliver Lund |
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HAPE: The Risk Of High Altitude Adventures

To show readers the dangers of high altitude hiking

Originally known as “high altitude pneumonia”, high-altitude pulmonary edema is a threatening form of non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema. In other words, fluid accumulation in the lungs. HAPE symptoms typically overlap with other diagnoses, one of which being pneumonia. Before HAPE was identified and understood, it was commonly confused with pneumonia, hence the original name, “high altitude pneumonia”. HAPE typically develops in […]
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Breya Bergom |
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