What kind of winter can YOU expect? Once again, it’s that time of year when all of us skiers are wondering what the 2009-2010 winter has in store for us. Will it bring big snow storms with lots of power skiing and technical ski lines filling in for sickbird descents, or clear and dry weather [...]
Archive for October, 2009
2009/2010 Winter Weather Forecasts and Predictions
by October 9th, 2009Pearl Jam Rocks For The Return of the TetonAT Visor
by October 8th, 2009Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam rock for the TetonAT visor in Salt Lake City last week. More details to come!!! Photo: Bryan Feinstein, front-row…center. This is my favorite song from the new Backspacer album. Here’s the live version from Salt Lake City, Sept. 28, 2009. Tell me that dude on stage isn’t winning some serious [...]
FTC Regulates Blogger Endorsements
by October 7th, 2009The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently passed rules requiring bloggers, Facebookers and Twitterers to disclose when they are getting paid by companies to endorse their products. As a pretty committed blogger, I can really see the importance of such regulations, since it would be pretty easy to ‘sell-out’ to nearly every outdoor company out there, [...]
Skiing Aconcagua Now On The Calendar
by October 5th, 2009Alpenglow on the north side of Aconcagua. It’s funny that on Friday, his royal blogness announced his intentions of skiing Denali this spring, since on the same day I was making final arrangements to attempt another one of the Seven Summits. While booking my flights to and from Ushuaia on my way to Antarctica, I [...]
WIN 3-Months, 15 Days Heli/Cat Skiing on BC’s Powder Highway
by October 4th, 2009Wow! Three months (ALL EXPENSES PAID…except food and beer) of skiing some of the best ski terrain in the world…and for only 90 seconds of video of why you are the ultimate ski-bum. Watch the video and visit the website stated near the end. And since the entry into the Powder Highway, Ultimate Ski-Bum Blow [...]
Get FREE Topo Maps From The USGS
by October 2nd, 2009Finding and buying topo maps for trips to areas that aren’t near where you live can sometimes be challenging, time consuming and expensive in the long run. The good news is that there are resource out there that allow you to obtain USGS quad maps for nearly every part of the United States…for FREE! YAY…thanks [...]
First Turns of the Season
by October 1st, 2009Randosteve gets his first turns of the 2009-10 ski season at Grand Targhee. When it snows 12-18″ on Oct 1st at Grand Targhee…there’s no way I’m not going to get out the door and investigate. Randokitty only had to mention the word ‘skiing’ once…and our trail running plans were quickly put on the back burner [...]
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