Fall in ski country can be a lonely place. The summer tourists are gone and the skiers and snowboarders have yet to arrive. Cold temperatures bring a frosty blanket of snow and ice, while darkness and clouds hover like the flu. When Halloween arrives, lone pumpkins dot the deserted main drags and cobwebs form on unused doorways.
And then, of course, there are the ghosts of visitors past  … More
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We thought it was not possible to top last years event but it happened. Ones again the sickest railbattle that has ever been went down in The Hague, Holland. Thousands of spectators got amped by good music, good snowboarding and hail. During the finals the party erupted and the crowd didn’t let the rain and hail stop their jumping and bouncing and cheering.
It’s impossible to capture that vibe in a video especially because I was cheering just as hard when I should have been filming. Blame the rain.
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Last winter Europe was basking in its best snow season since social networks began. My friends’ timelines were abuzz with updates and images chronicling the ridiculous amount of snow falling in the Alps. All of which would have been fine if I wasn’t heading to the usually snowsure state of Colorado for 10 days, where it was having its “worst” winter for a decade.
It hadn’t snowed for two weeks and nothing was forecast for the duration of my stay. Landing under a starry sky in Durango – after a short internal hop from Denver – my planned powder quest was looking like  … More
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