VIDEO: “This is Japan” | A 4-minute film by Mattias Evangelista “I’ve spent the last two January’s skiing and traveling in Japan. This is a place unlike any other. A place where old meets new, where tradition clashes with modernization and where beauty meets chaos. What’s left is a culture so rich and diverse you have to see it to believe it.” Mattias Evangelista Matias Ricci | January 17, 2017 0 Comments
Search and Rescue Dog Locates Buried Avalanche Victim in Austria A 19-year-old Austrian man was caught last Wednesday in an avalanche while skiing with friends in Tyrol, and then rescued thanks to an avalanche search and rescue dog, which was able to locate him before it was too late. The man, from Tyrol, was skiing with four friends on fresh powder on Sunday when they triggered an avalanche. Another skier was […] Avalanche Matias Ricci | January 17, 2017 0 Comments
Two Snowboarders Buried, Seriously Injured in Avalanche Outside of Park City, Utah Two snowboarders were rescued late Wednesday night after becoming buried and seriously injured in an avalanche on a backcountry slope near the Smith and Morehouse Reservoir in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Around 4 p.m. Wednesday, one of the boarders jumped off a cliff, fracturing a large slab of snow. The slide carried one of the men, slamming him into trees on […] Avalanche Matias Ricci | January 16, 2017 0 Comments
VIDEO: “Into the White” | An Epic Trip Along BC’s Powder Highway With the Giro Snowboarding Team Last season, Giro professional snowboarders Bryan Fox, Curtis Ciszek, Christian Haller, Nils Mindnich and Seth Huotwent went on a trip along BC’s famous Powder Highway. This video is -at least- a proof of why the Powder Highway is called the Powder Highway. “Kingfisher B.C. was my first ever heli trip and I will definitely remember this one for the rest […] Matias Ricci | January 16, 2017 1 Comment
VIDEO: First Tracks in Mammoth After 20 Feet Of Snow On Thursday, after a 10-day storm, videographer Colin Farrell drove 16 hours to Mammoth to get some deep powder. This video proves it was worth the drive. He was there in first-chair fashion on Mammoth’s Chair 22 and documented the experience for this All Time video. “Locals were out in force today, emotions were at an all time high,” he wrote […] Matias Ricci | January 15, 2017 0 Comments
Search and Rescue Volunteer Injured by Avalanche During Mission in Colorado Routt County Search and Rescue member Jay Bowman was swept by an avalanche last Thursday during a night mission on Buffalo Pass. He broke his arm, fractured his leg and sustained a laceration to the head. Search and Rescue was called out at about 3:45 p.m. Thursday to help a skier and snowboarder who were lost and needed help getting out of the North […] Avalanche Matias Ricci | January 14, 2017 0 Comments
INFOGRAPH: 8 Interesting Facts About Avalanches After a week with lots of snow––and lots of avalanches––it is good to remind ourselves about the risks that skiing and being at the mountains involve, and more importantly, try to minimize them as much as we can. The following graphs are only a couple of interesting facts about avalanches that are good to know, but won’t save our lives. There is only one […] Brains Matias Ricci | January 12, 2017 1 Comment
Terrible Start of the Season for Europe | December Was Switzerland’s Driest Month On Record. December was ultra-dry in the mountainous heart of Europe, causing ski sales to drop considerably compared to last years’. Ski resorts in Switzerland have seen a big drop in visitors on the slopes so far this season due to the lack of snow, official figures show. Meanwhile, some French regions were declared drought zones, forcing resorts to switch off their snow cannons. A […] Matias Ricci | January 11, 2017 0 Comments
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