Archive for the ‘Snow’ Category
Pointing to the sacredness of the San Francisco Peaks north of Flagstaff, Arizona, a coalition of Native American tribes has been fighting the development and expansion of Arizona Snowbowl ski resort since 1979. It remains defiant, reports the New York Times, despite having suffered a key legal defeat this winter. A federal court ruled against the tribes in a nearly decade-old lawsuit that claims the ski resort’s plans to use treated wastewater from Flagstaff’s sewage system to make artificial snow for the resort would interfere with religious practices and mar the mountains.
Wait. The resort will use sewage to make snow?   … More
The Lyngen Alps is a jagged mountain range located on a half island on the northern Norwegian coastline. It’s a magic place for ski touring in the early spring when the days are long and the snow conditions normally are good.
Skiers Andreas Fransson and Morgan Salén together with filmmaker Bjarne Salén explored the Lyngen Mountains during three weeks in April 2012.
During this time they made six first descents and skied some of the best snow they had ever found in Scandinavia – This is episode two out of three.