March 2005

Okay folks, announcing our “Threadies,” this season’s top twenty weird, wonderful and wacky forum thread names from Couloir Magazine, TelemarkTips, and TGR. Enjoy guessing which forum they came from. Rather than arranged in ranking order, we ordered them to tell…

More, a blog source just told me there were some interesting members of the group and the Aspen Skiing Company is a bit concerned. Stay tuned.

It hit me like the last time I got tasered: Dostie just told me on the phone that he got a pair of Garmont Mega Rides and yes, he is going to ski AT at the Couloir ski tests so…

Aspen Expeditions was running an avalanche education class in the Five Fingers backcountry skiing area on the side of the ridge south of Highland Peak and Highlands Ski Resort. One of their backcountry skiing clients/students was caught in an avalanche and killed.

I heard that Tanner Hall, a well known stunt skier of the new-school variety, was badly hurt doing Chad’s Gap, a gap jump in the backcountry near Alta, Utah. Gap jumps are simply kickers and landings with some sort of…

Problem in backcountry skiing avalanche safety these days is that truly expert folks with experience and education tend to be caught in avalanches