The Lake Tahoe Backcountry Demo Event, North America’s largest venue for all things alpine touring, telemark and splitboard returns Jan. 10. Alpenglow Sports has once again partnered with Alpine Meadows for the 9am to 3pm event at the ski resort. Participating vendors will include DPS, Dynafit, G3, Scarpa, NTN, Salomon, K2, Scott, Marker, Volkl, Twenty-Two […]
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By Kathryn Reed With more than 300 bird species in the Lake Tahoe Basin, Scott Dietrich is on a quest to see as many as he can this year. Prior to the Dec. 15 Christmas bird count he was at 185. Armed with binoculars to scan Cove East, Dietrich was quick to find the bald […]
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By Kelly Dinardo, New York Times Beads of sweat trickled down my back, forming an icy pool where my thermal top had ridden up. My heart, drumming a furious, hard-rock beat, accompanied the loud gasping of my breath. Reaching forward with one arm, I stabbed my pole into the snow-covered ground, slid the opposite leg […]
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By USSA BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. — On the final day of competition at the 10th annual Dew Tour, veteran slopestyle rider Chas Guldemond (Reno) walked away with the second Dew Tour win of his career. Landing a solid first run with his brand new switch double wildcat and three double cork 1080s, Guldemond would prove to […]
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By New York Times For first-time skiers, expectations and reality can often diverge on the slopes. They imagine gracefully swishing down an Alpine mountain, but then spend their first day falling. After that, most give up. Indeed, according to the National Ski Areas Association, 83 percent of first-time skiers and snowboarders never return to the […]
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By USSA BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. — Under a setting sun at the 10th annual Dew Tour on Dec. 13, Torin Yater-Wallace and David Wise would put down some of the best halfpipe runs of their freeskiing careers to take the top two spots on the podium in men’s halfpipe — Wallace in first and Wise in […]
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By Kathryn Reed PHOENIX – Mileage is not always the determining factor in how sore one will be after a hike. Terrain has a lot to do with achy muscles, too. Nine days ago I found out how true that statement is. Camelback Mountain is considered by some to be the toughest hike in the […]
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By Sarah Parvini, Los Angeles Times Before they picked out an eight-foot Christmas tree, Tara White and Ed Dilks wondered whether an artificial tree might be a more eco-friendly choice. But after doing some research, the Glendale couple decided that the convenience of an artificial tree didn’t stack up against the fresh scent and homey […]
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By USSA BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. – Olympic champion and Meyers resident Maddie Bowman came back to the contest season swinging, earning her second consecutive Dew Tour win and sharing the podium with fellow U.S. Freeskiing teammate and Olympian Annalisa Drew. Bowman, who is coming back from a knee injury, picked up right where she left off […]
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By USSA ARE, Sweden — Ted Ligety (Park City ) slayed his way to second place in Are, Sweden, behind Marcel Hirscher from Austria, who collected his 25 career World Cup win, and ahead of Stefan Luitz of Germany. Tim Jitloff (Reno) grabbed more giant slalom World Cup points, finishing 22. The win moved Hirscher […]
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