Elephant slaughter is occurring in Cameroon — nearly 500 have been killed by poachers in the last two months. Officials found 480 carcasses in Bouba Ndjida National Park in the northern part of the country, but they caution that there could be many more victims of ivory hunting, as the park is a massive 540,000 [ more... ]

Jackson, Wyoming, is about to drop a bundle on avalanche fencing, but don’t worry, it’s not in the middle of Glory Bowl on Teton Pass. There’s a slope in town called Gravel Pit Slide that has been using snow sails, which are designed to divert wind and drifts, and helicopter bombing, neither of which is [ more... ]

I’ve been saving beer cans in case I need to repair a broken ski pole for ten years. I’m near maxed out at my storage unit. Backcountry Magazine offers a useful tip, at least it’s useful in justifying drinking beer all summer with your ski buddies. See how to use a couple hose clamps and [ more... ]

It’s long been known that exercise makes you smarter — or that it enhances cognitive abilities, anyway. Now Japanese scientists are honing in on a possible answer to why. The brain stores glycogen as fuel and, as it turns out, regular exercise means that it stores more glycogen than normal in a kind of grey-matter [ more... ]

A group of ultra competitive yogis are gathering for the National Yoga Asana Championship this March, and they have their sights set much higher. Olympic committee high. (But do they have enough money to buy them off?) During competition the posers do five mandatory poses and then two of their choice. I would laugh off [ more... ]

How strong are Himalayan fixed ropes? Something to ponder if you’ve ever clipped into a faded bit of line at some sky-scratching elevation — just how badly have UV and the elements weakened the rope? Black Diamond wondered this, too, and when someone brought a bit of used fixed line back from Ama Dablam, BD [ more... ]

I would ridicule these Pivothead sunglasses that have a built-in video camera if I didn’t see tons of people skiing and biking with much larger cameras strapped to their heads. Does this mean that glasses and goggles with built-in cameras are going to be the rage? It works in spy movies. I just hope no [ more... ]

Protect Our Winters puts this winter’s low-snow year in context by pointing out that this is how the future could look. But there are 21 million winter sports enthusiasts in the States and POW is asking every one of them to do more. There are seven steps to the POW pledge, including bugging your elected [ more... ]

A pastor in the Philippines commanded a tsunami to stop and it obeyed him, he says. In the wake of an earthquake that hit the island nation earlier this month, Severino Fuentes told the incoming tidal wave ‘Stop in Jesus name and go back to where you belong!’” he said. “And the wave stopped and [ more... ]

All these jerks on bikes and skates keeping getting in front my car while I’m trying to drive. Thank god police are there to drag them out from under my bumper, otherwise I might have to get out and see what happened. I suspect this Italian video from 1948 was made by Fiat’s predecessor, training [ more... ]