It’s every backcountry skier’s worst nightmare. You’re having fun skiing powder with your wife and friends, when the next thing you know you are in the mist of an avalanche…fighting to stay alive. This happened to Jackson skier Adam Smith last season while skiing in Granite Canyon, accessed through the gates at the Jackson Hole [...]
Archive for June, 2007
Adam Smith Thanks the Helicopter
by June 7th, 2007Ski Jump Games
by June 6th, 2007Here are a couple online ski jump games to distract you from the daily grind. I don’t really have time to master these games myself…be it at work or at home, but I’m sure many people will get some good entertainment out of these. Good luck staying focused at the office! Big Jump Challenge is [...]
Almost a Stumper
by June 5th, 2007Well I thought we had a stumper with yesterday’s ‘Name That Couloir’ and I went to bed with no one answering correctly. But once again, Ed Bushnell nailed it early this morning. Ed…you are a true professor of Couloirology. Here are a couple more shots of the same line…the Sickle Couloir on Mount Moran, which [...]
Name That Couloir, #9
by June 4th, 2007Back to the home range for the next installment of….NAME…THAT…COULOIRRRRR! Any guesses? Another scanned image…this one from 2002
Today…A Skier Was Born
by June 1st, 2007Today, June 1st 1971, a skier was born. It took him a few years to realize it, but by the age of 4 (and the immeasurable thanks to his parents) he had experienced his first turn. As as child, his banzai, high-speed snow-plow descents were the entertainment of his family and friends, and he remembers [...]
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