Holders of the Epic Pass at Vail will be able to use their lift ticket year-round. They can ski (if that’s what you call it) Vail all winter, and then head to Las Lenas in Argentina when summer hits to ski the other side of the globe. The massive catch is that you have to stay at certain hotels in Las Lenas, and I’m guessing the dirtbag ski bum motel converted to a hostel is not on the list. The Epic Pass costs about $600.

Zion is having a rough week. On the heels of recovering the bodies of two men in their twenties who died while attempting to float the Narrows on a log raft, another woman died while hiking. It’s believed she fell 1,000 feet from Scout Lookout on Angels Landing Trail. Take a look at some of the images of Angels Landing Trail - it’s surprising more people don’t fall off this thing.

A new study suggests that certain mosquitoes are attracted to the smell of beer and prefer victims who’ve been drinking. Fortunately, drinking a lot of beer makes you care less about getting bitten by mosquitoes and encourages building really big campfires that help keep the pests away. This is less of a problem in the Mountain West where mosquitoes don’t pile up, and it’s much worse news for developing countries where malaria is a problem.

You’ve either given up on skiing for the year, or you’re hanging onto garbage corn while your friends are out having fun on their bikes. Here’s a sweet POV video from Colin Haley skiing lift service above Chamonix France that serves as a nice reminder of how good it will be again next year. Terrain off the lift is insane in this place.

A California woman decided to invest $350k in her own zipline down a mountainside. One-million-dollars later, she’s marketing 3-hour zipline tours that rip along at 45mph for $95 each. The good news is that she also owns a clean-up company called California Hazardous Services, so if anything goes wrong they’ll at least do a good job scraping you off the hillside.

“We take you two miles into the forest in a safari jeep to the top of the mountain,” she said.

Two miles into the forest; 45mph zipline ride; and then what do you do for the other 170 minutes? Maybe it’s a really slow car ride.