It’s never too early to get stoked for the coming ski season. Here’s a good way to waste some time for all you office-bound suckers like me: a round-up of the 2010 ski film trailers from TGR, Matchstick, Warren Miller, Powderwhore and etc (in no particular order). There’s some good stuff in here. I’m particularly psyched for [...]

On the surface, this is a simple and happy story. A snowboarder at Loveland Pass in CO got caught in an avalanche and luckily survived. He was carried down the slope and ended up buried up to his waist – right-side up. Thank goodness.
But watch the clip below. The story says the boarder is “an [...]

With the start of the ski season, I thought it prudent to do a roundup of avalanche resources available online and in the Sierra Nevada region.
Now you have no excuse. Go take that avalanche course you’ve been putting off. It’ll make the backcountry more fun because you’ll be able to geek out on your snow [...]

I spent the weekend at our place in north Tahoe watching more than four feet of snow fall in just a few days. That’s a fantastic start to the season and should make for a solid base at area resorts and in the backcountry.
And there’s more precip on the way. Just pray that the temps [...]

Thanks to BCA (makers of great backcountry gear including the most-used avalanche beacons) and Teton Gravity Research (the venerable media company responsible for AMAZING films like the recently debuted Re:Session) for this 7-part video series on avalanche training and awareness.
This is NO SUBSTITUTE for in-person avalanche training courses, but serves as a great refresher for [...]

I went out and saw Warren Miller’s Dynasty here in San Francisco last night. The film features Tahoe and Tahoe skiers right out of the gate in the opening sequences of the show.
After the requisite sales pitch for ski passes and salvos to Warren Miller sponsors and such, the curtains went up. Cheers erupted from [...]

Ty Dayberry, a South Lake Tahoe local and member of Heavenly Ski Resort’s “High Roller Team,” is featured in the new extreme telemark skiing film, The Freeheel Life.
The film documents the travels and descents of some of the world’s best freeheel skiers.
Way to go California athletes! The Sierra Nevada serves as a world class training [...]

Homewood is doing some simple, but powerful, things to keep Tahoe blue.
They’ve begun an effort to keep sediment from running right down the hill and into the lake.  If you haven’t been to Homewood, it sits right across the street from Lake Tahoe, so any intense rain washes sediment from the hill down into the [...]

Get outside. It makes You happy! This L.A. Times piece highlights an interesting study carried out by psychologists from the University of Rochester.
Subjects were shown sets of images and were then immediately asked a set of questions.  Those that had seen images of natural environments held community and family values higher than those that had [...]

YES YES YES! Man I’m really getting itchy feet for winter. Just signed lease for Tahoe ski house. Boreal ski area had it’s earliest opening day ever. Now lets’s get a good, fat base. Sounds like we’re on our way…
Via AP and Mercury News:
RENO, Nev.—The first winter storm of the season slammed into the Sierra [...]