Thursday, September 9th, 2010

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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 [...]

While Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger promised to keep California State Parks open, he didn’t stress how drastic some changes would be to deal with the 14.2 million dollar reduction in the Park budget.
A summary of the service reductions in store for most of California’s 278 state parks was created by the park superintendants to highlight the major [...]

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 [...]

This is some brilliant satire. The ski film genre is ripe for parody with its ski bum dudes and dudettes who can never seem to quite capture in words the rapturous nature of their alpine adventures.