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  • Big White Falcon Chair

    Falcon Chair At Big White Now Open Seven Days A Week

    Big White Ski Resort will operate the Falcon Chair daily, from 9pm to 3:15pm, for the rest of the season. Historically, the Falcon Chair has only run on Saturdays and Sundays, or daily during holiday periods. This will be the first time in10 years that the double-seater chair has operated on a daily basis. The […]

  • Veteran Sit Ski

    Disabled Veterans Learn To Ski And Snowboard In Park City

    Before he stepped on a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, snowboarding was one of Justin Crabbe’s hobbies. Now, Crabbe — a 27-year-old Marine Corps veteran who lost both lower legs, his right thumb and several fingers in the accident — has been re-learning how to snowboard as part of a week-long program in Utah. “So every […]

  • Snowboarding Survives Avalanche Near Whistler VIDEO

    A snowboarder can thank his inflatable backpack for saving him during an avalanche near Whistler, B.C. on Wednesday. Tom Oye posted helmet-cam video of the terrifying incident in the Brandywine area on Facebook, where it has been viewed millions of times. According to an earlier post, Oye — who is originally from Australia but now […]

  • Squaw Valley

    Western Snowpocalypse January 2017

    Apparently there is a such thing as too much snow. In the last week snowstorms have been hammering the western United States and especially the Sierra, knocking out power in Tahoe, dumping 14 feet on Mammoth, shutting down Crested Butte in Colorado, and even giving the students in Jackson Hole their first snow day in […]

  • Mammoth Mountain Just Got 14 Feet Of Snow

    Hugely popular resort Mammoth Mountain in Mammoth Lakes, California has been getting hammered for the last week with a snow storm that’s been raging along the entire Sierra range. The total storm snowfall is currently measured at 186 inches, with at least 116 inches accumulated and a foot of that since last night. The powder […]

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