There are two “buts” to that headline. One is that the part of the plan that would see Wolf Creek add terrain is on hold pending the USFS’s internal assessment of the San Juan National Forest’s land management plan revision. And acceptance doesn’t mean approval. Wolf Creek’s upgrade plans still have to go through environmental [ more... ]

Two off-duty police officers in British Columbia responded to a report of an erratic driver launching his Mitsubishi Lancer into 65-foot-deep ravine. One of the officers had crampons in his vehicle to climb to the stranded car, and the other tied a harness out of a couple dog leashes he found in his vehicle. Police [ more... ]

There are lots of reasons not to keep wild animals as pets. Start with the “wild” part. But a Montana woman was apparently doing just that with a deer, and not just any deer, but a five-year-old buck that trampled or gored her (details are sketchy) in its pen earlier this week and severely injured [ more... ]

The world’s top kayakers converged on Chile to run some of the most challenging whitewater in the world for the 2012 Grand Prix. I have no idea who shot this segment, but you have to hand it to them for producing a piece of work that could stand on its own. So often these comp recap videos are boring montages of big hits and bloody faces.

Brit Richard Parks – creator of the 737 Challenge and the first person to climb the seven summits and stand on all three “poles” within seven months had another audacious plan up his 8,000-fill-down-covered sleeve. He wanted to solo ski to the South Pole. Too bad the mailman didn’t get the memo. Parks got to [ more... ]

It would seem that in some ways the federal government in Russia is more permissible than that in the U.S. For example, they let a BMX rider into the National Spacecraft Control and Testing Centre so he could ride around in satellite dishes suspended hundreds of feet above the ground. In the U.S., this would be a hard stunt to get government backing. Perhaps my second grade teacher slightly exaggerated all those years ago when she told me that people in the USSR were routinely shot on the streets for expressing the desire to be ‘free.’