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Editor’s Note: Today we are launching a new blog column with Outdoor Industry Association. Avery Stonich will be weighing in on industry trends, places to play outside and the federal policies that affect them, with a few tales from OIA staffers’ adventures thrown in for good measure. As I ponder this assignment—a new outdoor adventure…
Skiing: The Great Canadian Road Trip of 2012 – Part #3 – Fernie, B.C.
Posted by Aaron Teasdale on April 24, 2012 
In our ongoing effort to jam as much skiing as humanly possible into our Canadian skiing odyssey, we jumped in the car and started driving as soon as we finished skiing at Sunshine Village. Across the Continental Divide and south for four hours, we streaked to the skiing hamlet of Fernie, British Columbia, for our…
Skiing: The Great Canadian Ski Road Trip of 2012 #2 — Banff’s Lake Louise, Sunshine Village
Posted by Aaron Teasdale on April 17, 2012 
The Japanese women appeared suddenly, smiling with their cameras and saying “excooz me” while I buckled my ski boots at the base of the Lake Louise ski area. Assuming they wanted me to take their picture, I smiled and said, “Sure,” only to have a woman lean into me with a huge smile and grab…
Skiing Chamonix, France: A French Education
Posted by Kim Havell on April 6, 2012 
Read more about Chamonix, France in our World’s Best Ski Towns story. Chamonix, France is a small alpine world in a big valley. As the home to some of the highest and best concentrations of glacier-ridden steep skiing and alpine ice and rock routes on our planet, it is a hotbed for the elite mountain…
Skiing: The Great Canadian Ski Road Trip of 2012 – Revelstoke and Kicking Horse, B.C.
Posted by Aaron Teasdale on April 5, 2012 
Writer Aaron Teasdale also wrote our World’s Best Ski Towns 2012 story. When winter fails to deliver the goods in the American Rockies, there’s always one thing powder-starved skiers can do: head north. From the reliably thick snowpack of interior British Columbia to the pristine slopes just over the Continental Divide in Alberta, the mountain…
Jussi Oksanen Snowboarding on an Otherworldly Glacier in New Zealand – Incredible Photo
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on March 28, 2012 
“Jussi is a pure freestyler, a fantastic jumper, and a really good and stylish jibber,” says photographer Jeff Curtes of shooting with Burton rider Jussi Oksanen at Ice Station Zebra glacier in Methven, New Zealand. A low-precipitation snow season created stunning glacial terrain in Methven. “The snow bridges were minimal, so we moved confidently with…
Mount Everest: Packing List for the World’s Tallest Peak
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on March 20, 2012 
What do you pack for the world’s tallest peak? Here’s what ski mountaineer Hilaree O’Neill is bringing to Everest, where she is part of our spring 2012 expedition sponsored by National Geographic and The North Face (learn more about the expedition). Though her main objective is to summit via the Southeast Ridge with her teammates,…
Surviving the Slide: Skier Elyse Saugstad’s Avalanche Safety Tips
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on March 7, 2012 
A few weeks ago, a group of expert skiers got caught in an avalanche out-of-bounds at Stevens Pass in Washington. Three died. Freeskier Elyse Saugstad survived the slide thanks to her airbag backpack, a product which is now flying off the shelves at outdoor sporting goods stores. Here Elyse talks about what happened and why…
Freeskier Max Kuszaj Sunset Powder Skiing in Little Cottonwood Canyon, Utah – Stunning Photo
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on March 5, 2012 
See this photo and more in our Extreme Photo of the Week Gallery >> Adventure: What were you thinking at this moment? Max Kuszaj: This photo is quite unique due to that fact that it was taken in the pitch dark, with minimal lighting, thus making it extremely difficult to see while skiing. My main…
Top Snowboarders Face Off in Travis Rice’s Supernatural at Baldface, B.C. (Video)
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on February 3, 2012 Starting today, 18 of the world’s top snowboarders will face off in the inaugural Red Bull Supernatural Contest, a competition unlike any before. Snowboarder Travis Rice, one of our 2012 Adventurers of the Year, has created his dream playground designed to determine the best snowboarder on the planet. Located in the backcountry of Canada’s Baldface…
Ski Touring the Tetons (Photos): Hiking Up, Shredding Down Teewinot, the Grand, Cloudveil Dome
Posted by Kim Havell on January 26, 2012 
It was a slow start to winter for resorts in the U.S. In order to find snow in the early season, for many passionate skiers, it meant getting creative. Based out of the Wasatch this season, due to drier conditions, I decided to drive north for four to Jackson, Wyoming, to poke around the Tetons…
Skiing Video: Trust in the Guardian – Salomon Freeski TV – “Selkirks Touring”
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on January 18, 2012 By Kim Havell When you are skiing powder in Canada’s Selkirk mountain range, Research and Development is a very good job. Companies often want to see how their prototype product works in the field, so somebody’s got to do it. In the sports realm, team athletes are often called upon to use and critique their…
Videos: Stuff Outdoors People Say, Bro – Which is Your Favorite?
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on January 17, 2012 We gotta give these guys points for creativity and keep a straight face—all in good fun and great for a laugh. Which is your favorite? It's a tie between the skiing and climbing for us. Skiing Climbing Shit Climbers Say from Louder Than 11 on Vimeo. Kayaking Snowboarding
Your Adventure Civic Duty: Vote for the People’s Choice Adventurer of the Year (Last Call)
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on January 13, 2012 We are down to just a few days left to vote once a day for your favorite Adventurer of the Year. On January 18 at midnight, we will have a new People's Choice Adventurer of the Year. We'd be thrilled if any of the twelve nominees won. So far the race has been tight! It's…
Ten Days Left to Vote For the People’s Choice Adventurer of the Year! VIDEO
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on January 9, 2012 Here's to living adventurously. And voting for the People's Choice Adventurer of the Year. There are just ten days left to cast your vote once a day. Voting ends January 18, 2012, at midnight. Vote Now! http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/adventurers-of-the-year/2012/vote/ You can also read interviews and see photos of each candidate. We'd like to give special thanks to…
Gear Review: Anon M1 Snow Goggles’s Magnetic Changeable Lens
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on January 5, 2012 By Contributing Editor Steve Casimiro, editor of Adventure Journal This goggle doesn’t exist yet. It’s new for the 2012-13 season, but Red/Anon (a Burton brand) released the above YouTube vid to give the world an idea of what’s to come, and we have to admit it looks intriguing. Smith already has their Outrigger I/O-I/OS lock/unlock system that allows lens…
Snowboarder Jeremy Jones on Protect Our Winters
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on December 8, 2011 "Jeremy Jones is an alien. He's just inhumanly good at snowboarding." So lives the legend of this pioneering big-mountain rider. We heard this comment this week from an Alaska-based ski/snowboarding operator, but the sentiment is one that rings throughout the snowboarding world. Once a pro rider hitting a different big-mountain location every week, Jones's ethos…
Video: Watch the Amazing JP Auclair Street Skiing Scene From All.I.Can.
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on November 29, 2011 JP Auclair Street Segment (from All.I.Can.) from Sherpas Cinema on Vimeo. This scene from the award-winning Sherpas Cinema ski film All.I.Can. may have been our favorite at the Banff Mountain Film Festival. Set to LCD Soundsystem's "Dance Yourself Clean," it features freeskier JP Auclair jibbing his way through three towns in British Columbia, Canada. "We…
Adventurers of the Year 2012: Skier Nick Waggoner
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on November 22, 2011 Over the next two weeks we will introduce each of the new Adventurers of the Year here on our blog. Be sure to cast your vote every day for the People's Choice Award. See photos of all the Adventurers of the Year! “In the moment, it felt like we were failing every day. We weren’t good enough. We…
Outdoor Skills + Advice: Pre-Season Ski Training Tips
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on November 7, 2011 By Casey Dean, in-house writer for National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS); photograph courtesy NOLS Forget a bikini bod—it’s time to start perfecting your skiing bod. While some people are amping up their diets and gym routines in a frantic attempt to look amazing when the family comes over for the holidays, others are hitting the…
Fringe Elements Videos: The Evolution of the Splitboard
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on April 5, 2011 By Fitz Cahall; Video still by Bryan Smith Watch more Fringe Elements videos >> In the last year, splitboarding has reached a tipping point. Ski movie stalwarts Teton Gravity Research released Deeper, which featured snowboards that transform into skis, to much fanfare. In the last three years, several snowboard companies have begun aggressively marketing these…
Adventure Photography: Your Best Skiing and Snowboarding Photos
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on March 7, 2011 
Today we published a new photo gallery of the best skiing and snowboarding images to be submitted to My Shot, National Geographic's user photography site. This collection of images, which spans the globe, is impressive, including one of our favorites taken by Dmitry Toikka. Not only was the photo taken in the spectacular Kamchatka region of…
Skiing + Snowboarding: March Events and Deals at 10 Colorado Ski Resorts
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on March 3, 2011 
Kids skiing in Telluride; Photograph courtesy Telluride Ski Resort Plan your spring skiing and snowboarding around these events and deals at ten of our favorite Colorado ski resorts. March tends to be Colorado’s snowiest month, with bountiful storms that fuel the ski season straight into May. So whether it’s Mardi Gras slope-style, terrain park boot…
Alaska-Yukon Expedition: See Andrew Skurka’s Story in National Geogarphic Magazine
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on February 18, 2011 Photograph by Michael Christopher Brown. See the story, photos, and map in the March issue of National Geographic Magazine. About a year ago, Andrew Skurka embarked on the hardest expedition of his life—4,679 miles of skiing, hiking, and packrafting in wildest Alaska and the Yukon. You probably recall his thoughtful blog dispatches on this website.…
Top Five Adventures: Freeskier Jenn Berg’s Favorite Ski Spots
Posted by Mary Anne Potts on February 18, 2011 If you've seen any of the recent Warren Miller ski flicks, then you know Jenn Berg. She demonstrated her amazing big-mountain freeskiing skills in the last five films. She's also been in pretty much every skiing—you know in those photos that are both gorgeous and shocking at the same time? We asked the Utah resident…
