Maribor, Slovenia – Even world champions feel the wrath of their mothers if they are late for lunch. Slovenian skier Filip Flisar has come up with a novel way to play catch-up: a jetpack. The 29-year-old, crowed world champion in ski cross in 2015 and a semi-finalist at the last Winter Olympics a year earlier, found himself … Continue reading WATCH: Freeskier Jetpacks Through City
Sun Valley, ID – The Blaine County Coroner has confirmed that a 34-year-old snowboarder died in a tree well at Sun Valley Resort on Saturday. Derek Klein (photo: Facebook) Derek Klein, 34, of Meridian, Idaho was found unresponsive at around 1:30 p.m. on … Continue Reading ››
Ludlow, VT – Vermont’s Okemo Mountain Resort will light up the night sky and a specially constructed rail garden on its Bull Run this Saturday for the Light the Night Rail Jam presented by Amp Energy Drink. $5,000 in cash and prizes will go to the best skiers and riders in this jam-format competition. The Bull Run trail, located … Continue reading Okemo Light The Night Rail Jam This Saturday
Sugar Mountain, NC – The Tennessee family of a teenage snowboarder who jumped 30 feet to avoid spending the night on a stopped Sugar Mountain chairlift has sued the North Carolina resort. Temperatures were in the teens with wind chills in the single digits on February 14, 2016 when Sugar Mountain’s GW Lift stopped for the evening with … Continue reading Family of Teen Stranded on Chairlift Sues Sugar Mountain
Whistler (BC), Canada – A New Zealand man has died after falling in a sidecountry area of Whistler Blackcomb ski resort in British Columbia.
Hakuba, Japan – A Colorado man missing from a ski day at Happo-one ski area in Japan is presumed dead from an avalanche. After a week of probing avalanche debris, rescuers have ended their search for Mathew Healy, an army veteran serving as a civilian physician’s assistant at the U.S. military base in Okinawa and from Littleton, … Continue reading Colorado Man Missing in Japan Presumed Dead in Avalanche
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