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Barry “Bear” Bryant highlighted perhaps the busiest day of the 2013 USSA Congress with a stellar acceptance speech after being presented the Julius Blegen Award, the highest honor the association hands out. The award was the finale of 50 awards presented at USSAs Chairmans Awards Dinner Friday (May 17) night after three days packed with meetings of working groups, committees and sub-committees. Most considered the meetings to be particularly productive…

The second episode, featuring Yater-Wallace, is now live.

May 25th stowe will hold the Last Trick Rail Jam. Be There for your last chance to jib!

Fuck the Hot Possie. Video by Jeffrey Tolland Smith.

The wealth of snow produced for Buttermilks X Games continues to be put to good use, as Aspen Valley Ski Club (AVSC) alpine racers have been running gates on the recently flattened former slopestyle jumps. This is the second year that the hefty piles of snow — some up to 50 feet deep — have been repurposed for spring training. Its a boon to young athletes who can benefit from ski time without the inconvenience and expense of travel. "We…

Wrightwood, CA - Get out onto the ski slopes in summer and play a round of disc golf at Southern California’s only course above 6,000 feet. Originally designed by Dave Dunnipace, owner of Innova Disc Golf, one of the country’s largest manufactures of discs, baskets, and accessories, Mountain High’s Sky High Disc Golf Course is touted as one of the best in the region thanks to its course variety and scenic views. Broken into three nine-hole courses, a full outing takes players on a 2.5-mile hike through…

Scranton, PA - With the sale of Pennsylvania’s financially beleaguered Snö Mountain now finalized, its name will revert to its former moniker, Montage Mountain. The 440-acre ski area was sold to its largest creditor, DFM Realty, an affiliate of National Penn Bank of Boyertown, Penn., for $4.6 million. DFM was the high bidder for the property at a bankruptcy auction held in March. In Philadelphia on Friday, the bank sold the property unencumbered for $5.1 million to Jefferson-Werner, an urban real…

Whistler (BC), Canada - A father and daughter camped on Blackcomb Glacier as part of a backcountry skiing trip died on Saturday night when what has been described as a bear-sized boulder came crashing down onto their tent. A 10-year-old female and her 49-year-old father, both of North Vancouver, were reported overdue and missing at around 6 p.m. on Sunday after missing their scheduled check-in several hours earlier. “The report was that a father/daughter duo had gone up Blackcomb Mountain on May…

Union Dale, PA - Robert Frost dryly quipped that “good fences make good neighbors.” Apparently the same cannot be said for gates. A long-simmering dispute between Pennsylvania’s Elk Mountain and neighboring Village of the Four Seasons (VOFS) boiled over in December of 2011 when, purportedly in response to Elk’s closing of a gate between VOFS and the resort, VOFS sued Elk for drawing water from a shared pond. According to a story published in the Scranton, Penn. Times-Tribune, a judge has finally…

Perisher Valley (NSW), Australia - The ski slopes in Perisher were looking frosty white this morning as some of the season’s first snows dusted Australia’s Snowy Mountains. Temperatures hung below freezing from top to bottom this morning. Snow guns are already pumping on Front Valley and Mt. Perisher, where the ski season is set to debut in just under a month on June 10.   More Available Services