If you scroll to the bottom of the Coldpole homepage, you’ll notice that the flask ski pole company is based in Texas. I was hoping somewhere in Wisconsin. The top of each grip screws off so you can fill the poles up with booze before ripping down the hillside. You drop one of these off [ more... ]

Sunshine Village ski area in Banff fired four longtime staffers days after a ski patroller reprimanded the resort owner’s son skiing out of bounds. The junior patroller busted the kid with four friends and told them to get back inbounds. Twelve days later four of the resort staff were fired by the kid’s dad after [ more... ]

A Scottish climber who was part of a 24-person team fell off the near-vertical face of a 3,589-foot mountain landing 1,000 feet below. A Royal Navy helicopter spotted him at the bottom of the slope about 35 minutes later. He was standing up reading a map. “It seemed impossible. So we retraced our path back [ more... ]

It seems there are some rough roads through Death Valley that have been popping up in GPS units for the past several years, and at least a few people have followed these directions to their deaths. In one sad case in August of 2009, a woman got her Jeep stuck for 6 days after blindly [ more... ]

I did not see this one coming. I thought these FiveFingers would stick around for a year, be adopted by a handful of barefoot runners who would buy every pair they could find in closeout bins across the country, and then the shoes would quietly disappear. But no, it seems they’ve developed a following. To [ more... ]

I always considered ice fishing the redheaded stepchild to fly fishing. No excitement, no skill. The only draw was that you could use both hands to hold cans of beer instead of using them to cast. Turns out ice anglers (as they prefer to be called) occasionally get to experience some excitement. Two men on [ more... ]

They’re so eco-conscious in France. Instead of towing friends behind gas-guzzling trucks out on a lake like we do in the Midwest, they hook up to a train and let it drag them over the railroad ties.

A study in Canada that looked at avalanche fatality data over the last three years has found that snowmobilers are more likely to die than skiers. If you consider that snowmobilers can cover a lot more ground and therefore traverse more avalanche-prone terrain, it makes sense that they’d be more likely to get caught in [ more... ]

If you can see this, then you might need a Flash Player upgrade or you need to install Flash Player if it’s missing. Get Flash Player from Adobe. This error may appear if the URL path to the embedded object is broken or you have connectivity issue to the embedded object. Powered BY XVE Various [ more... ]

Well, specifically its fossilized tracks were discovered, but we’re not splitting hairs here. An archaeology team working between 2006-10 discovered abundant bird tracks from some massive creature, and after a bit of research they discovered that this particular bird was uncategorized. This new discovery seems to prove that Denali was rich in birdlife 70 million [ more... ]