Remember about 8 or 9 years ago when they kicked mountain biking out of the Summer X Games because it wasn’t Xtreme! enough? It was about that time that I lost interest. Too much street luge, and the word ‘extreme’ had already jumped the shark at that point. Now a woman in Aspen is going [ more... ]
Tags: Xtreme!
Oh boy, now anyone who wants to meet with the West Virginia Governor knows that they only have to sit in a tree for a week. WV Gov Joe Manchin responded to national pressure and called an emergency meeting with tree sitters over a mountaintop mine in the state. This is the eighth day that [ more... ]
Tags: Green
Ski resorts are sliding back from global real estate corporations to the smaller, mega rich investment groups who used to own them. I prefer to have my ski resorts as the play things of billionaire financiers, except maybe in the case of Dick Bass, whose coal mining investments have left lifelong Snowbird skiers in an [ more... ]
Tags: Skiing
Authorities are hoping to evacuate the last of the tourists and inhabitants stranded near Machu Picchu by the end of today. Yesterday they flew about 1,402 out of town after heavy rains washed out roads stranding more than 3,000 people. The stranded town turned into a study group for Lord of the Flies, and prices [ more... ]
Tags: Hiking
English Russia included this photo in their post, “A Solution for Many Many Snow.” Those Russians, very crafty. You’d have to stack more than a few cases of vodka in the backseat of that station wagon to keep those back tires from spinning. I’d love to motor up to Vail in this machine.
Tags: Xtreme!
After some online backlash, Chinese authorities are denying that their renaming of the peak “Southern Sky Column” to “Avatar Hallelujah Mountain” has anything to do with the film ‘Avatar.’ The floating mountains in the movie are named the “Hallelujah Mountains.” Avatar has cleared $80 million in China and is the country’s most financially successful and [ more... ]
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An Everest historian thinks that he’s pinpointed the body of ill-fated climber Andrew Irvine. Tom Holzel poured over high resolution photos until finding an ‘oblong blob’ that he believes is George Mallory’s 1924 climbing partner. The goal in this case is to recover an ancient Vest Pocket Kodak camera that could contain a picture of [ more... ]
Tags: Climbing
In November of last year Backcountry.com Athlete Chris Davenport joined Stain Hagen and Andrea Binning on a trip to the bottom of the world to find some new lines to ski. Australis: An Antarctic Ski Odyssey was shot by Jimmy Surette of Granite Films and comes out in summer of 2010.
Tags: Skiing, Videos
Patagonia pulls down some amazing photos for their catalog, but one in their Heart of Winter 2010 issue has caused a stir. The shot of a cyclist on page 38 happened to be taken on the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail, a place where it’s illegal to ride a bike. Patagonia admitted the mistake and [ more... ]
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Redpoint climbing shop in Oregon was cleaned out overnight. The owner opened the store on Sunday morning to empty walls. They took all the climbing gear, stuff from the display cases, and even a stack of Frisbees. The alarm system didn’t go off, and thefts of this kind are almost always an inside job. He’s [ more... ]
Tags: Climbing