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We all know about protecting our skin from the summer sun, but our face and body are just as vulnerable to winter weather. Men and women should practice a few simple skin care tips that protect and repair winter skin.
NTN stands for New Telemark Norm. It’s a complete redesign of telemark’s boot/binding interface. Over the decades, design tweaks to tele’s standard 75mm bindings have improved tourability, releasability and downhill power. But in recent years, it’s been obvious that major improvements would require starting from scratch, which is where the NTN makes its anticipated appearance.
Already during this 2007-08 season, twenty-six deaths across North America make it painfully clear that the historical mediums of avalanche awareness are in need of a new approach. The Rocky Mountain Sherpas have teamed up with the Canadian Avalanche Foundation to revolutionize both the medium and the message.
You see, Aspen/Snowmass is ideally situated smack in the middle of ski country, so that it gets hit by both northern and southern storms. In a normal season, that means we get a few inches from the edge of each storm, while our neighbors to the north and south – like Steamboat and Telluride – get pounded. But this isn’t a normal season...
Competitive big mountain freeskiers pushed the limits last Friday at the Subaru Squaw Valley USA Freeskiing Open while crowds of sun-drenched spectators indulged in the top-shelf performance. Here is a smattering of video highlights for your viewing pleasure.
The second stop on the Subaru US Freeskiing Series commands the best freeskiers on the planet to chase the championship title.
Finally, POWDER made it to the Butte. Since mid-December, the little town at the end of the road with the monolithic mountain rising up from the valley has received near record-breaking snowfall.
The 2008 Red Bull Playstreets happens February 16th in Bad Gastein, Austria. Playstreets is a on-of-a-kind urban freeski competition sending competitors jibbing through the city off of lots of man-made and "natural" terrain.
POWDER Magazine teamed up with PacSun for a luxurious evening of watching the world’s best halfpipe skiers from the cozy confines of the PacSun Lounge at the base of the Superpipe in Aspen, Colorado.
Ski areas in Western Washington strangely crossed their fingers in hope for a break from the weather that has discharged up to 8 feet of snow in five days. On Saturday, the Mount Baker, Stevens, and Snoqualmie Pass' were all closed due to avalanche danger forcing the closure of those three ski areas.