Riders On The Storm: The Ultimate Guide To Living In A Van, Chasing Pow, & Slaying The Goods Every Day SO… You’re a so-called ski bum. Maybe you live in a ski town, or town near a resort, or battle it out with the other weekend warriors enough to associate with the periphery of a lenient definition of the term. Regardless, you’ve had epic days…and I mean epic days. The best day(s) of your life. Untracked lines. Free refills. You’re a hero. […] Brains Sergei Poljak | September 5, 2020 8 Comments
Telluride, CO Backcountry Report: Big Lines + Variable Snows Season’s Greetings From The Telluride Backcountry The snowpack may be average, but the Telluride backcountry has been exciting and full of surprises. The winter season in the North San Juan region has been characterized by a number of anomalies. There have been pros and cons, as I will discuss. Nevertheless, the best skiing has been found in the backcountry, and relatively […] Conditions Report Sergei Poljak | February 4, 2020 0 Comments
The Best Places For Early Season Lift-Access Powder in North America: Today is Sunday, October the 13th, and let’s face it, us powder hounds are absolutely itching for the goods. Although your average skier would be ecstatic to have good conditions as early as the December holidays, Powderhounds are much too spoiled, one could even say entitled, to be content with such mediocrity, with true bliss reserved for those deep mid-winter days. This may seem like an imminent […] Industry News Sergei Poljak | October 12, 2019 0 Comments
Your Own Slice of Valhalla: Aspen Snowmass Bike Park Report + Photo Tour Journey to Aspen Snowmass Last week, I embarked on a journey from Telluride, CO to the hamlet of Aspen, CO after the recommendation of my friend Ben, a contractor with Gravity Logic. With the blessings of Tucker Vest Burton, a full tank of gas, and plenty of cheese in my cooler, fate sealed the deal and I headed on my sojourn […] Trip Report Sergei Poljak | July 31, 2019 0 Comments
Literally The Best Season Ever: Telluride Season Conditions Report + Photo Tour Telluride, CO had the best season of all-time this year! Anyone younger than thirty had the best winter of their life. Anyone over forty may never have another winter like this again, at least in the San Juans. After having one of our worst winters ever last year, and an extremely dry summer to beat, this year’s snowpack was essential not […] Conditions Report Sergei Poljak | April 23, 2019 2 Comments
How To Avoid Getting Injured From Skiing: The last month has been big, and it seems like everybody is nursing an injury whether large or small. The knees, hips, wrists and other parts of skiers and snowboarders alike have fallen prey to fearsome malfunction that is injury. Many of these injuries are season ending, and require expensive surgeries, exhausting rehabilitations, and many moons to recover from. So how do we avoid […] Brains Sergei Poljak | January 30, 2019 0 Comments
Austrian Man Suffers Fatal Cardiac Arrest In Avalanche Near Revelstoke A 52 year-old Austrian man has been pronounced dead after an skier-triggered avalanche in Revelstoke, BC. The exact cause of death appears to be a cardiac arrest suffered during the avalanche that caught three heli-skiers in the Goldstream area, 100 km north of Revelstoke, on Monday afternoon. The government initially withheld the name of the heli operator, although Canadian Mountain Holidays (CMH) have […] Avalanche Sergei Poljak | March 10, 2017 0 Comments
HIGH Avalanche in Idaho, Washington, Oregon, & Montana Today The past several days have seen the Northern tier of the country getting bombarded by storms. These storms have brought snow, wind, and, most recently, abundant warm Pacific air to the mountains. Today, HIGH avalanche danger exists in four states, with CONSIDERABLE conditions in the Tetons and other regions of Wyoming. There are three main avalanche problems today in the region […] Avalanche Sergei Poljak | March 10, 2017 0 Comments