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.
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To crib a line from Shakespeare, a colossus or two has come to bestride the Sierra Nevada.
One would be the combination of the Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows winter resorts under ownership of the KSL Corp., producing an entity that supplies 6,000 skiable acres served by 43 lifts, with the two mountains linked by a free shuttle; the other is Vail Resorts, combining Northstar-at-Tahoe, Heavenly and Kirkwood to present skiers and snowboarders with 10,100 acres on three mountains served by 63 lifts.
Not far behind is Sugar Bowl … More
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Olympic skiing champion Lindsey Vonn has launched an audacious and ground-breaking bid to compete against male opponents at a World Cup event on November 21.
The 2010 downhill gold medalist in the Vancouver Games believes that squaring off against the best men’s skiers in the world will boost the image of the women’s tour, which she dominated again this past season to cement her place as world No.1.
Vonn has sent a letter seeking special dispensation to  … More
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