By Mike Dunham, Anchorage Daily News Elyse Saugstad of Squaw Valley was taking a break with several fellow skiers Sunday in the Washington state backcountry when the shouting began. “Elyse! Avalanche!” The 33-year-old turned to see tons of snow boiling toward her. “I pulled the trigger,” she said, inflating two air bags attached to her […]
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By USSA OSLO, Norway – Chas Guldemond of Reno won men’s slopestyle finals and the overall Ticket To Ride World Champion title on Sunday. Guldemond’s run was smooth and had a huge backside 1080 to an even bugger cab 1260. Jamie Anderson of South Lake Tahoe took second place for the women, while Canadian Spencer […]
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Stories about the Tahoe Rim Trail are being sought by Bona Fide Books for a future book. Hikers, backpackers, cyclists, equestrians, trail builders and anyone else with an experience from the 165-mile trail that wraps around Lake Tahoe is invited to submit a story. It may be humorous, about natural history, epiphanies, trials and tribulations, […]
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By Susan Wood She may be cold sometimes, but she’ll warm up fast – then take you for a real ride. If you push her buttons just right, she’ll raise her big blade – then cover her tracks behind her. She’ll light up your night man. And to the one who knows her best, she […]
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By USSA OSLO, Norway – Kelly Clark of West Dover, Vt., earned her 15th straight win taking the Ticket To Ride title at the World Snowboarding Championships halfpipe finals on Saturday. Matt Ladley of Chicago had a huge frontside 1260 and a great run that scored him second place in the men’s competition, while Iouri […]
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By USSA SOCHI, Russia – U.S. women rewrote the record books Saturday as Lindsey Vonn of Vail finished third, Julia Mancuso of Squaw Valley sixth, Stacey Cook of Mammoth Mountain ninth and Alice McKennis of Glenwood Springs, Colo., 10th to place four American women in the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup downhill top 10 for […]
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By USSA Scotty Bahrke of Squaw Valley won his first FIS Freestyle Aerials World Cup on Friday in Kreischberg, Austria. This was Bahrke’s first podium of the season and the second of his World Cup career. Dylan Ferguson of Amesbury, Mass., finished third, earning his second podium of the season. Laura Peel of Australia was […]
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Truckee’s Jay Wild is serving double duty for Team USA, racing in the technical and distance divisions at the ISA World SUP Championships. This is Surfing America’s first time to participate in the PacSun USA Stand Up/Prone Paddle Team competition. The event in Miraflores, Peru, runs Feb. 19-25. Wild is considered one of the best […]
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By Rocky Barker and Dan Popkey, Idaho Statesman GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s call to sell or transfer federally owned public lands Tuesday night in Boise earned him several rounds of applause. But Idaho Gov. Butch Otter found in 2005 that while Idahoans don’t like how federal lands are managed, they don’t want to lose […]
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Born with one leg, 23-year-old Anthony Robles, 23, went on to win the 2010-11 NCAA individual wrestling championship (against all able-bodied competitors) in the 125-pound weight class. He is a two time ESPY award winner, an inductee to the National Wrestling Hall of Fame, and the exclusive motivational speaker for the Washington Speakers Bureau. This […]
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