SKIERS and snowboarder were basking in deep powder snow over the weekend after a huge storm hit Australian ski resorts.
It Hotham in Victoria received 70cm of fresh snow since Thursday – the most of any resort in the country.
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Alaska’s 20,320-foot Mt. McKinley has presented unrelenting poor weather and avalanche conditions this climbing season and has kept multiple parties from the summit. Several people have not returned from their expeditions up North America’s highest peak, including a group of four Japanese climbers, who died on the mountain in mid June.
Among those turned from the summit recently is Whistler-based big-mountain skier Holly Walker. After three weeks on the mountain, Walker and her partner left Denali on June 13 and skied the mountain from the highest base camp in one, long run  … More
In the PREMIERE episode of “Winch Sessions”, we meet up with professional snowmobiler Levi LaVallee, who gives us the low down on what to expect from the upcoming season. We then mission over to Minnesota where we are introduced to “Skier Steve,” who has spent the last four years attempting to land a 97ft rail.
Mammoth Mountain-owned June Mountain is being closed “indefinitely,†according to a company source, while it assesses the profitability of the mountain, which has operated at a deficit for the last several seasons. Mammoth was hit hard by this winter’s meager snowfalls and has been implementing aggressive cost cutting measure since early this year.
While senior management was in meetings at the time of our call, they forwarded us this statement:
Rusty Gregory, Mammoth Mountain Ski Area Chairman and CEO, announced today the company will not operate June Mountain this summer and for the upcoming 2012-13 winter season. “June has operated at an annual deficit each year since its purchase in 1986,†said Gregory. “It is time to … More