Ian Greenwood

1 week ago | powder.com | Ian Greenwood

Thanks to a handful of ski resorts known for opening earlier than most, Colorado often offers one of the longest winter operating seasons in the U.S. Skiing is skiing, so visiting the state’s mountains any time between fall and late spring will, of course, deliver good times, but there are periods that are better than the rest if quality conditions and a wide selection of open terrain are what you’re after. Here’s the breakdown of when to ski in Colorado.

1 week ago | sports.yahoo.com | Ian Greenwood

Ladies and gentlemen, the moment is here. Isaac Kaufman has been voted the winner of POWDER and 5-hour Energy’s Trick of the Winter contest. To take the title and a cool $1,500, Kaufman kept it classic, hucking a big, beautiful backflip into the famed Corbet’s Couloir at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Wyoming. Check it out below. AdvertisementThis is the first year we’ve hosted the Trick of the Winter, and when you open your inbox to submissions, you never know what might happen.

1 week ago | yardbarker.com | Ian Greenwood

The CAIC recommended that backcountry travelers begin and end their days early. As the sun melts the snow, the risk of wet loose avalanches can increase. The CAIC also wrote that skiers and snowboarders should move off steep slopes whenever there’s a rain-on-snow event, track overnight temperatures, and favor areas with deeper snowpacks. Today, across the CAIC’s forecast regions throughout Colorado, the avalanche danger is low.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Ian Greenwood

Spring has arrived and the backcountry beckons, but the Colorado Avalanche Information Center (CAIC), after an accident north of Ophir, still wants skiers to think about avalanche danger. On May 29, a skier was caught by an avalanche in Gold King Basin, Colorado, according to an accident report. They and their partner, a snowboarder, had begun descending an east-oriented face. First, the snowboarder rode downhill. Then, the skier followed, triggering a wet loose avalanche.

1 week ago | yardbarker.com | Ian Greenwood

Shiffrin recalled that, in some moments, “grim images” would flash through her mind. She’d see herself crashing. Then, pain would appear across her body in response. While Shiffrin began racing in slalom in January, she pulled out of the giant slalom event at the world championships the next month. Ultimately, according to her Players’ Tribune article, she decided she needed to do something, and at the prompting of her therapist, she began looking at her experiences through the lens of PTSD.