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Avalanche Awareness workshop with Northwest Avalanche Center

The NWAC Avalanche Awareness Workshop target is for the winter backcountry traveler. Whether you ski, snowshoe, snowboard or snowmobile in the backcountry, recognition of avalanche danger is an essential and potentially lifesaving skill. This session introduces and explains where and why avalanches occur and provides a basic approach to managing risk in the backcountry. Learn […]

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SheJumps Get the Girls Out at Schweitzer Mountain Resort

It’s the 5th anniversary of Get the Girls Out at Schweitzer Mountain Resort and we just can’t wait to celebrate with you! Once again we’ll be donning leis, shaking our grass skirts & tutus and bringing the spirit of the luau to the mountain. There will be activities for all ages & abilities including crowning

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Mountain Safety – Avalanche Awareness

Get Out There, News, Skiing/Snowboarding, Snow Sports, snowshoe / By Amy McCaffree

While there have always been news stories about avalanches, some incidents more sad and deadly than others, this Silver Mountain avalanche is a home heart-break story. Mountains will still be our happy place, and powder days will still bring us joy. But now we do so with the knowledge of this cautionary chapter in our regional history. We would be remiss to not learn lessons from our sorrow.

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Rustic Luxury at Logden Lodge

Destinations, Get Out There, Skiing/Snowboarding, Travel / By Aaron Theisen

Twenty minutes south of Nelson, B.C., just outside the zero-stoplight community of Ymir, Paul Hulshoff and partner Annelies Ellerman have built Logden Lodge, one of the few vehicle-accessible luxury lodges in the Kootenays. The handful of private cabins bring hand-crafted European style to the Kootenays, but even more importantly, they bring winter adventurers within easy reach of classic Powder Highway locales.

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Snow-blowing machine shooting out new snow on a ski run.

The Science and Art of Snowmaking

Get Out There, Skiing/Snowboarding / By Out There Outdoors

By Chris Gabrielli 100 percent coverage, knee-deep powder, and face shots for days—wake up, you’re dreaming. Although almost every ski hill in the Pacific Northwest, and even the interior Northwest, receives more than 200 inches of snow annually, Mother Nature can still be a fickle beast. Seasons start slowly and some years Lady Winter never

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Winter Adventures in British Columbia

Get Out There, Skiing/Snowboarding, Travel / By Derrick Knowles

Traveling north of the border for skiing, snowboarding, hot springs soaking, snowshoeing, or other winter adventures is incredibly easy and worth every kilometer of extra driving. One of the best yet often under-appreciated things about living in Spokane and North Idaho, in fact, is the proximity to interior British Columbia. This lightly-populated, vast expanse of wild mountains, valleys, lakes, and rivers; enchanting yet authentic mountain towns; and destination-worthy resorts, parks, and trails is a wonderland right next door.

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What “Shredding” Means

Get Out There, Skiing/Snowboarding / By Sarah Hauge

5 Local Skiers & Snowboarders Share What It Means to Shred From the point of view of this very out-of-practice skier, shredding is a term that applies to a certain niche of slope-destroying, fear-defying rebels ready to tackle any mountain with a casual smirk and a toss of their wind-strewn hair. I posed the question

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Ski Bum Advice: What the !@#$ Did I Just See?

Get Out There, Skiing/Snowboarding / By Brad Northrup

Back before I lost what grip I had on reality and joined the ranks of corporate America, I had the privilege of living and working in the mountains of the great state of Washington, and I wouldn’t trade a minute of it. Well, I might trade it for early retirement or to be one of

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Terrain Park Evolution

Get Out There, Skiing/Snowboarding / By Aaron Theisen

For Terry Gosline, Terrain Park Manager at Silver Mountain Resort, every day on the job is like building a sand castle that’s meant to be stomped on. Between both the main terrain park under Chair 2 and the Noah’s progression park on the front-side of the mountain, Gosline and his ten-person crew put out upwards

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