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Attention Ladies and Gentleman…
December 19th, 2012 | By:  Greg | 2 Comments


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Attention ladies and gentleman. This is your captain (skin-track breaker) speaking. I'm happy to inform you that we have ascended to the powder-snow altitude, and so I've gone ahead and switched off the skin-track light. Please feel free to schuss about the pistes. We'll be coming around the pistes with complimentary soft-snow ... ...Read more


On Being Beholden of Beholdin’ Golden Dawns
December 13th, 2012 | By:  Greg | 3 Comments


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It's hard not to be beholden of golden dawns. What is this primitive instinct of ours? What is our sense of aesthetics that causes us--almost universally--to be taken aback at the sight of early morning light? Perhaps something about the contrast and the brilliance of a morning sun triggers some homunculus ... ...Read more


West Coast Reporting In
December 9th, 2012 | By:  Allen | 6 Comments


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Winter has gotten off to a slightly late start here in the PNW but now that it is here it has come into full swing. My first Day of the year with Tyler in the backcountry near Crystal. First day of the season on a 60 inch base. The wind was whipping ... ...Read more


Terrible Pattern in Utah
December 8th, 2012 | By:  Ben | Comment


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Since Brutus, the weather gods have not been kind to Utah. With a large vortex set up in the Gulf of Alaska, the prevailing storm track has pushed one wave after another in Northern California, Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. Stuck to the south, Utah has been under a persistent ... ...Read more


The Romp of the Pow-fa-hoofii
December 2nd, 2012 | By:  Greg | 11 Comments


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A mysterious beast of legend protects our mountains' pow in the northeast: The taciturn Pow-fa-hoofus. Don't be confused with its closely related, but entirely different relative the Wampahoofus. This fiend is a distinct creature with all its own habits and rituals. Patrolling the mountains only on nights around the time ... ...Read more

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