By Richard Harris, NPR Like other animals and many living things, we humans grow when we’re young and then stop growing once we mature. But trees, it turns out, are an exception to this general rule. In fact, scientists have discovered that trees grow faster the older they get. Once trees reach a certain height, […]
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Josh Daiek, who rides for and lives in Kirkwood, placed second Jan. 22 in the men’s ski competition of the SWATCH Freeride World Tour. The event took place at Courmayeur Mont Blanc in Italy and was the first of six events on the FWT this season. Daiek’s run began with two massive cliff drops that […]
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By Kathryn Reed Based on the amount of vertical feet being skied by people at Heavenly Mountain Resort, it would be hard to know the whole mountain hasn’t opened because of the lack of snowfall. Those who are into keeping track of where they ski, vertical feet, number of days and other stats just have […]
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By USSA MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN -– Kaitlyn Farrington (Bellevue, Idaho) clinched her spot on the Olympic halfpipe snowboarding team Sunday with her bold victory at the final event of the Sprint U.S. Grand Prix series. Arielle Gold (Steamboat Springs, Colo.) also secured her Sochi spot Sunday. Olympic champion Kelly Clark (West Dover, Vt) settled for second […]
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By USSA MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN -– Defending Olympic champion Shaun White, who rides for Northstar, will get a chance to win three-in-a-row at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games after clinching a spot on the Olympic halfpipe snowboarding team Sunday with his victory at the Sprint U.S. Grand Prix series finale. Local favorite Greg Bretz (Mammoth Lakes) […]
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By Kathryn Reed TRUCKEE – A park named after the Donner party should be visited in inclement weather. It’s the best way to get a feel for what the 81-member wagon train went through in the winter of 1846-47. While such weather has been scarce this winter, we ventured out in some last Saturday. Wind […]
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By USSA MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN -– Sage Kotsenburg (Park City) took the victory in slopestyle at the final stop of the Sprint U.S. Grand Prix Tour at Mammoth Mountain on Saturday. His progressive first run scored a full three points ahead of the rest of the field, including Kyle Mack (West Bloomfield, Mich) in second and […]
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By USSA WENGEN, Switzerland — Olympic gold medalist Bode MIller (Franconia, N.H.) finished fifth, a mere 0.35 behind winner Patrick Kueng of Switzerland in a wind shortened running of the 84th Lauberhorn downhill on Saturday. The race start was lowered as high winds ravaged the upper half of the fabled course, cutting over a full […]
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By USSA MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN -– Jamie Anderson (South Lake Tahoe) took the Sprint U.S. Grand Prix overall slopestyle title and a $10,000 cash prize with her win Saturday at Mammoth Mountain. Karly Shorr (Truckee) put down a progressive run to land second while Jessika Jenson (Rigby, Idaho) took third. Nominations for the first U.S. Olympic […]
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By Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News These are the unlikely saviors in the lofty peaks of the serene Sierra: high-tech snow machines, roaring like jets and spewing million-dollar crystals. “If it wasn’t for snowmaking, we probably wouldn’t be open,” said Barrett Burghard, head snowmaker at Heavenly Mountain Resort, who is propping up the […]
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