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Tuesday, August 24, 2010 12:30 AM

Snow Posts

I’ve blogged before about Ken Block’s incredible rally car drive through a snowboard terrain park. If you haven’t seen it yet, go watch it . There’s also another good video about the pretty serious crash he had making that first video. Ken has been at...
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Tuesday, May 11, 2010 12:30 AM

Ski Area Plans

The local ski areas are making some big improvements this summer. Here’s a rundown of what you can expect to see: Summit at Snoqualmie is adding two new chairlifts to Summit East. One lift will replace the area that was affected by the January 2009...
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Wednesday, May 05, 2010 12:30 AM

Cinco De No-Ski-o

Cinco de Mayo is something of a tradition in these parts at Alpental . Even when the resort can’t stay full open until May 5, they usually reopen on the 5th for a big party. People come in costumes, enjoy live bands, good food and some slushy snow. Unfortunately...
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Friday, April 02, 2010 12:30 AM

Winter Isn’t Over

It’s no secret that this has been a very poor ski season for the Pacific Northwest. Aside from an early season dump and one or two good weekends, there has been a lot of warm, wet slush. But it looks like winter isn’t over. A few feet fell...
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010 12:30 AM

Crystal Mountain Gondola

Crystal Mountain recently announced that as soon as the season ends this year (April 19), they will begin installing a gondola from the base area to the top of Rainier Express. While this doesn’t open up any new terrain, it should reduce congestion on...
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Tuesday, February 16, 2010 12:30 AM

Olympic Thoughts

I watched a lot of the Olympics over the weekend. Here are a few things that ran through my head: Opening ceremony? BORING. They need to jazz up the parade of nations. If you watch an hour of NBC’s coverage, you’re lucky to see 10 minutes of actual competition...
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Thursday, January 28, 2010 12:30 AM

Winter X Games 14

The Winter X Games start today and run through the weekend. Be sure to set your DVRs. This year also marks the first year (I think?) that they will be live broadcasting some of the events on espn360.com. Hopefully your internet provider enables that site...
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Monday, January 11, 2010 12:30 AM

Bad News for Skiers, Good News for a Wedding

The National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction Center has issued it’s outlook for the next three months and there is a pretty good chance that the Pacific Northwest will be warmer and dryer than average. This is expected since we’re in an El Nino year...
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 1:56 PM

Whistler Time Lapse

I try to avoid videos with no text since it doesn’t translate well when I publish the books , but this timelapse from the top of Whistler mountain is incredible. 40hr Inukshuk timelapse from Rocky Mountain Sherpas on Vimeo .
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Friday, December 11, 2009 5:50 PM

Whistler Sunset

The web cam on top of Whistler Peak is gorgeous right now. I love how the clouds are filling in the valley and you just see the peaks off in the distance.
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009 12:30 AM

Goggle Fog

On Friday’s trip to Crystal, I was able to test out a new product from Bausch & Lomb called FogShield Sport . (Disclosure: they sent me samples for free to try out and review.) You wipe the pre-moistened towelettes on your goggles and get 8 hours...
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Monday, November 30, 2009 12:30 AM

Crystal Recap

BenH and I took advantage of the Friday holiday and headed down to Crystal. It was warm earlier in the week but there was about 6” of fresh snow up top to soften things up a little. Ben is in his second season of snowboarding and decided to spend the...
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Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:57 AM

Snow

For those of you that haven’t been following my SeattlePI ski blog , we are having a November to remember here in the Pacific Northwest. Normally, we’re really excited if Washington ski resorts can open anything by Thanksgiving. They’ll usually start...
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009 12:30 AM

Custom Ski Boots

When I bought my first pair of ski boots back in 2004, I picked some off the rack that were in my price range (read: cheap) and paid for them. I’ve always known that there were much better boots out there, but mine didn’t hurt and they seemed to get the...
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Thursday, November 12, 2009 12:30 AM

Crystal Mountain Opening Day

I sent a vacation email to the team at work, dug the gear out of storage, packed the rock skis in the car, and headed down to Crystal Mountain this morning for Opening Day 2009.  Never having been to an opening day, I didn’t know what to expect....
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