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Beartooth Basin Back Open for Beartooth Basin Back Open for Business
- From: TetonGravityResearch
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RED LODGE, MT Beartooth Basin Ski Area, formerly known as Red Lodge International Ski and Snowboard Camp, started spinning its lifts this Memorial Day Weekend. Located near 11,000’ in Montana’s Beartooth Mountains, Beartooth Basin offers big mountain, racing and freestyle terrain for camps and individuals until early July, conditions permitting. The scenic Beartooth Pass Highway, accessing the ski area from Red Lodge, Montana, is scheduled to open Friday.
“The crew has been hard at work digging out the lifts and getting everything ready for the season,” says Beartooth vice president and co-owner Justin Modroo. “As always, we’ve got a great variety of terrain. We have freestyle bump lines, race lanes, a terrain park and also the big mountain aspect, so there’s really something for everyone–from the professional that wants an edge on their competition next winter to someone that just wants some June corn skiing.”
Established in 1962, Beartooth Basin has long been a destination for international skiers to hone their skills during the late spring months. While originally organized as a summer racing camp by a group of Austrians, the area has evolved to host a variety of camps, events, and competitions, as well as daily skiing and snowboarding for the general public. From its humble beginnings in racing, Beartooth now offers a unique summer skiing setting, surrounded by wilderness and national forest.
“Beartooth Basin offers a great, wilderness experience mixed in with lift access skiing for big mountain skiers, racers or whoever wants to improve their skiing skills in the off season,” says Beartooth president and operations manager Austin Hart. “These lifts were put in by a group of Austrians that were Olympic athletes and racers that trained across the world, so there’s a great historic value along with having good fun and keeping summer skiing alive.”
Prices for 2013 are as follows: $45-full day; $35-hald day; and $20-power hour, in which skiers can take as many laps as they can in an hour. For more information consult http://www.beartoothbasin.com or call (307) 250-3767.
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News: Learn To Ski Month Offer News: Learn To Ski Month Offers Free Skiing in Vermont
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To kick off National Learn to Ski Month of January, The Woodstock Inn & Resort is celebrating with a Ski Free Program for resort guests throughout the ski season. Adults ski free Monday through Friday and kids ski free all week at the resort’s Suicide Six Ski Area, which features two chair lifts with a J-bar service to 23 trails, or at the Nordic Center with more than 30 kilometers of groomed cross country skiing.
The Ski Free Program includes:· Complimentary lift tickets to Suicide Six Family Ski Area
· Free Pass to the Nordic Center offering more than 30 kilometers of groomed cross country skiing and snowshoeing
· Complimentary use of The Resort's Racquet & Fitness Club including training equipment, indoor pool, steam room, sauna, and hot tub
· Morning coffee and afternoon tea
· Discounted equipment rentals at ski shops
The Ski Free program is available to guests when booking any room rate or package. Suicide Six features 30 percent beginner, 40 percent intermediate and 30 percent advanced slope ratings and one of the most family-friendly ski areas in Vermont. The base Lodge features a ski school, ski shop, cafeteria, and lounge/restaurant – perfectly located with a full view of the Face and the lower ends of all the trails. Offer not available holiday weekends and holiday weeks.
For twice the fun, skiers can also experience Killington, the largest ski area in the East, only twenty minutes from Woodstock Inn & Resort. A special Killington Express Package includes a Killington all-day ski pass for two, one night luxurious accommodations at The Resort and country breakfast for two along with all the benefits of the Ski Free Program. Rates start at $369 per night, not including tax, gratuity or resort fee. Some nights require a minimum length of stay. For information and to make reservations, visit www.woodstockinn.com or call (888)-481-8802.
Discover some of the most scenic cross country and snowshoeing trails anywhere at the Woodstock Inn Nordic Center. The Nordic Center features miles of trails surrounding the picturesque village of Woodstock, VT all mapped out for convenience. Highlights include the trails on Mt. Tom in the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park and woodland trails on Mt. Peg. The Center offers rental and retail ski and snowshoe equipment, clothing and both private and semi-private lessons.
Throughout the winter season Woodstock Inn & Resort provides guests with a number of dining and recreational options to enhance their stay. The Red Rooster, the resort’s award-winning fine dining restaurant emphasizes a menu using fresh, local ingredients sourced from the best purveyors in New England. Richardson’s Tavern offers a cozy old-world atmosphere with a full bar and live music. Resort activities include a 41,000 square foot Racquet & Fitness Club, which includes indoor tennis courts, indoor racquetball courts, a 30-by-60 foot indoor lap pool, a whirlpool, workout equipment and a steam room and a sauna. The 10,000 square-foot LEED-certified spa offers a nature-inspired ambiance and treatments including the signature winter selection, Deep Forest, which features a gentle exfoliation of the body and is followed by a massage. - Blog post
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News: Teton Gravity Research L News: Teton Gravity Research Launches New Stock Footage Web Page - Watch Our Reels
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Teton Gravity Research is excited to announce the launch of its new stock footage Web page. This new page showcases our latest stock footage reels from recent shoots as well as classic clips from our archives, covering a variety of extreme sports, avalanches, crashes, aerials, scenic shots, wildlife, and lifestyle footage.
Check out our new 2K RED, Ski, Snowboard, Avalanche, Aerial and Surf reels, and check back regularly. We’ll continually post new reels as they become available.
The TGR film library contains over 20,000 hours of the finest action sports footage from around the globe. Stock clips are sold throughout the world for a wide array of programming and commercial use. Visit our older stock footage page to search additional reels from our film library and archives. Recent clients include HBO, Apple, Jeep, Nissan, Sony and the Discovery Channel, to name a few.
Watch for this month’s HBO episode of Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel focusing on backountry skiing and featuring TGR stock clips of Tanner Hall.
Check out our new Aerial Reel above featuring Sage Cattabriga, Todd Ligare, Shane Dorian, Jamie O’Brien, Ian Walsh, Tommy Clowers, Ronnie Renner, Kevin Jones, Nick Martini, Sammy Carlson, Tom Wallisch and Ian MacIntosh.
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Update: Still Crushing It In K Update: Still Crushing It In Knik River Valley
- From: ToddJones
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The heli gets a fresh dusting of new snow.New Terrain. Fresh Perspectives. Record Snowfalls. These have been some of the themes of the last few weeks in the Knik River Valley.
Everyone knows that Alaska is on fire this year. On April 7, a small storm rolled into South Central Alaska and dumped enough snow to break a 60-year-old snow total record in Anchorage. Essentially, AK is having the best season since 1954. Wow. The rest of the world knows this as well, as we have seen the social media universe explode with images of spines and deep powder.
We chose the Knik area to get away from the crowds and explore new terrain. It has been really exciting. Essentially, the traffic in this area consists of our group and the Silverton Mountain Guides crew. Oh yeah, and some fixed wing ski-touring groups, one of which crashed into the glacier in front of our very eyes. Fortunately, everyone was OK.
Our group is made up of the TGR production team, athletes Daron Rahlves, Sage Cattabriga-Alosa, Dash Long and Seth Morrison, as well as photographers Adam Clark and Mark Fisher. We have been finding tons of cool peaks and features. Everyone is fired up to be up here and scoring the goods.
Life quiets down around our lodge when the snow falls.
Dumping at the Knik River Lodge.
Dash Longe sends a big 180. Dash has been killing it this trip. It is nice to see his perspective on these mountains.
Bummer. We saw this plane go down. Fortunately, everyone was OK. It is not everyday you witness a plane crash.
Sage pins a sweet spine line.
Dash hitting a cool cliff feature we found while scoping some bigger lines.
Seth in the sluff mix. It looks like a tight exit window for him.
Daron Rahlves hits a nice scenic ridge line in the clouds.
Daron Rahlves in the mix on a big spine wall.
Sage “taking the park to the big mountains.”
Rahlves emerges from a sluff wall. In AK you need to run fast from your sluff or you might get burned.
The boys back at base after a successful day in the hills. - Blog post
- 1 year ago
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Daron Rahlves Carves a Scenic Daron Rahlves Carves a Scenic Ridge Line
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Description:Daron Rahlves hits a nice scenic ridge line in the clouds.
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Jumbo Glacier To Be British Co Jumbo Glacier To Be British Columbia's Newest Ski Resort
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Words by Brigid Mander.
Photos courtesy of Ktunaxa Nation.
Twenty-one years after the initial proposal, the provincial government of British Columbia has given its approval to develop Jumbo Glacier into a year-round ski area. The site is located about 55 km west of Invermere, in the Purcell Mountains of British Columbia.
The decision, made public on March 20, 2012, met with continued opposition by the Ktunaxa Nation and the New Democratic political party, as well as environmental groups. Supporters in the government and business community expressed relief at the long-delayed decision.
The future site of Jumbo Glacier Resort.Once complete, the glacier would have 23 lifts and 6,000 housing units, at an estimated cost of about $950 million dollars. The project is expected to generate about 750 permanent jobs. The group behind the idea, Jumbo Glacier Resorts Ltd. (JGR), is currently working to raise a first round of investor funding in light of the government approval.
“After more than 20 years of comprehensive and exhaustive reviews, it was time to make a decision,” said Steve Thomson, Minister of Forests, Lands, and Natural Resource Operations in British Columbia in a government release. The government met with both proponents and opponents before its decision.
Ktunaxa territory map displaying the location of the to be ski resort.JGR faces an uphill battle despite government approval. The group has yet to secure funding and opposition shows no sign of abatement.
The Ktunaxa nation contends the land has been considered a sacred area for thousands of years. Ktunaxa Nation Chair Kathryn Teneese told TGR that “[The Ktunaxa] continue to oppose the project and permanent structures in that area,” and will seek accountability from the proponents. “We will be following up. This is definitely not a closed door from our point of view,” said Teneese.
One of many scenic ridges in Jumbo Valley.According to Ktunaxa legend, the area is the home of the grizzly bear spirit, and the nation-along with environmental groups-fears the impact a year round resort would have on the grizzlies and other species that live in the area.
According to the CBC, a 2008 poll found that the project lacked public support but that proponents welcomed jobs and tourists that Jumbo Glacier Resort would bring to the area. Former NHL star and local resident Scott Neidemayer has given the opposition fight greater visibility, after voicing strong opposition to the project and aligning with the Ktunaxa nation.
A closer look at the Jumbo Glacier Resort site.Norm MacDonald, the NDP representative for the Columbia Valley – Revelstoke in the BC Legislature, stated in a legislative session on March 27th that local opposition overall to the environmental impacts on the Jumbo wilderness ran as high as 91%.
Jumbo Glacier was first identified as a possible ski resort in a study commissioned to develop an ideal, year-round ski area in North America in 1990. The location, access, climate, prior use and presence of glaciers were cited as ideal factors for development, according to Pheidias Project Management Corporation, the Canadian company that conducted the study.
Jumbo Valley.The reaction from the Canadian ski industry has been mixed. Stagnant skier visit numbers point to a redistribution of ski tourist dollars in British Columbia and not overall industry growth.
"In terms of destination resorts, resorts that attract tourists themselves, which have accommodation on mountain, there are 13 in the province of British Columbia. There is significant excess capacity and I think some people at these resorts would question increasing that capacity," said David Lynn, President and CEO of the Canada West Ski Areas Association.
Ski tourers at Jumbo Glacier will soon be joined by tourists on newly lift accessed terrain. - Blog post
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Jeremy Jones approaches couloi Jeremy Jones approaches couloir
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The Movember Mario Brother, Jeremy Jones, had gotten a glimpse of the remanent snow in the couloir on a scenic plane flight three weeks earlier. We were betting that the wall to wall layer of last year’s snow was plastered with a couple feet of stable pow. Only one way to find out.
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Further Training Day - Riding Further Training Day - Riding The High Sierra With Jeremy Jones
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November 21, 2011
The pictures we had seen didn’t lie. Despite the grim November snowpack in the Sierra, it was out there: glorious powder snow deep enough to shred lay hidden in the deepest, darkest crevices of the high country. It was only a matter of finding it.
On Nov. 16, Jeremy Jones, Ryland Bell, Morgan Hebert and I decided we could wait no longer. It was time to start the backcountry season and hit the trail to earn some pow turns. The destination we decided upon was a steep north facing High Sierra couloir outside of Bridgeport, California. We knew climbing the couloir would be a big effort for the possible pay-off, but it seemed reasonable enough to make it worth it. Not to mention all of us were long overdue for a blow-out day in the mountains.
The adventure that ensued became a "Further" training day for more reasons than one. Driving home to Tahoe after the mission, Jones summed it up:
“Ninety percent of the steps we took today could have been hazardous to your health,” cracked Jones. “I don’t know how else to describe it other than the perfect extreme training day. We climbed up miles of sketchy talus, front pointed up ice, hammered home the axes, rode down with our axes out and scored some pow turns.”
There is no denying that the hike-to-ride ratio hit a new low for our crew on the trip, but the fun meter was still pinned throughout the full-value day. Check out the photos and share in our first snow stoke ... and a little bit of suffering.
— Seth Lightcap
This is what we were dreaming about when we rationalized punching it up to the couloir — pow turns in a steep alpine hallway. Fantasy became reality for Ryland seven hours after leaving the trailhead.
The Movember Mario Brother, Jeremy Jones, had gotten a glimpse of the remanent snow in the couloir on a scenic plane flight three weeks earlier. We were betting that the wall to wall layer of last year’s snow was plastered with a couple feet of stable pow. Only one way to find out.
The five mile, 3,400-foot climb to the base of the coolie allowed us plenty of time to look around. I spent more than a few minutes daydreaming that I had my climbing rack in my pack instead of my snowboard. Sure looked like better conditions for sending splitters than shredding.
We did find a few spots to bust moves on granite. Climbing the slabs gave us a brief respite from the endless snow-covered talus fields.
Our boots finally bit into a legit snowpack at the entrance of the coolie. Snow conditions were variable, as expected. We found anywhere between 0 inches and 18 inches of wind-packed powder on top of a firm, icy base. The dense, new snow was bonded pretty well at the base of the chute but we knew that might change the higher we climbed.
The foreshortened view of the couloir on the approach had me thinking it would be a short climb. In reality, the couloir snaked up way farther than expected with several pitch changes. The low snow levels also made it as steep as it ever gets. How steep was it? Not sure, didn’t measure, but the top half must have been 50 degrees plus.
Just up ahead the climbing got more technical as the snow was shallower. An icy bulge 150 feet from the top of the climb marked the end of the new snow. The couloir was scoured clean above the bulge and required front pointing and ice axe placements to keep climbing. Our bodies relished the tenuous moves while our heads processed the adrenaline of such bold steps on the first day of the season.
Dropping in off the top was an exercise in survival sliding. Everyone inched down on their toe edge, lowering themselves off of ice axe placements until after the icy bulge. Once back on the fresh snow the conditions got exponentially better, but the steep pitch and firm base made for spicy turns. Morgan Hebert milked the deepest snow on the far skier’s right wall.
The middle pitch of the coolie held the best snow. If you railed too hard your edges would hit the ice but if you floated into the fall line you could stay above it. Ryland Bell stayed light on his feet and linked up the pow turns.
Everybody kept it in first gear including Jeremy, but we all got a taste of what we had come for — steep rideable pow. The Sierra need another few feet of snow before you’ll find much rippable pow out there.
Hanging out in the shadow of the walll had made for a wild outing on this sunny November day. Between the classic climbing routes and the couloirs, no doubt this zone is a year-round alpine playground, even in the shoulder season.
Moving through the icy boulders on the long descent pushed our bodies into overdrive. Thankfully we made it down the talus fields before night fall. Our headlamps clicked on as we hit the climbers trail and picked up the pace racing out of the basin. Twelve hours after leaving the trailhead we cracked beers back at the car celebrating a safe and successful mission. We had found some pow turns and thoroughly wasted ourselves. "Further" adventures in the Sierra will only get more rewarding from here on out.
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