Winter is still going strong up here in Alaska. Low pressure last week brought quite a bit of snow up high, and there is still plenty of powder to be … Read More

Tanner Park is know mostly as the place in Salt Lake to take your dog for a walk. I had heard that there are also some super good dirt jumps … Read More

Ready for winter yet?  Sure some warmth, shorts and miles of singly track do a decent job of filling the void.  Skiing, however, is what drives the train.  Since the … Read More

In a lot of ways snowboarding hasn’t changed much since I started riding almost 15 years ago. It’s still about the search for unique terrain, building features with friends, exploring … Read More

Compared to the internet audience at large Unofficial Networks readers are….. 5 times more likely to have drank Gin in the past 7 days. Half as likely to have rented … Read More

Are these Russian teens fearless of just plain stupid? High above the recently completed Russky Island Bridge, which finally connects the very isolated island in eastern Russia with Vladivostok and the mainland two teens … Read More

Surfboarding is awesome, cliff jumping is cool and girls are pretty rad! GoPro figured this out and made a darn-good looking commercial. The girls -Alana Blanchard (The World’s Hottest Pro Surfer) … Read More

This Sunday there is going to be an annular solar eclipse, an event that takes place only once every 50 years, and it just so happens that it is going … Read More

Beatriz Feres and Branca Feres (born February 22, 1988, Brazil) are Brazilian synchronized swimmers. And yes they are identical twins. The Feres sisters competed for Brazil in the 2007 Pan American Games in synchronized swimming.

Bike-to-Work Day is an annual event being held across the United States and Canada to promote bicycles as an option for commuting to work. In order to celebrate National Bike to Work … Read More

Moments after our writer, Joey bagodounts, published his very controversial piece Still Telemarking, Huh? it started to spread it’s way around the internet. Within a day and a half it … Read More

MAMMOTH CONDITIONS REPORT | When the beach weather’s so very nice it certainly can be difficult to think snow… Understood. Even around Mammoth Lakes GREEN is the predominant color these … Read More

Now that Snowbird is closed and the cat crews are hard at work making road cuts in the remaining snow, Snowbird is looking for someone to buy the Little Cloud … Read More

Cammy Martindale emailed us this update on the current skiing conditions in Scotland.  Cairngorm Mountain is experiencing the best conditions of the whole season on the top half of the … Read More

RideThePlanet: Norway – Lofoten Islands The crew of ridetheplanet.ru have been traveling the world in search of exotic ski locations. So far they have traveled to Japan, Norway, Kamchatka, Georgia (the nation not the state), Arkhyz, Kavkaz … Read More

This is straight nuts. Think avalanches are bad? Check out this natural disaster in Preonzo, Switzerland. An entire mountainside collapses itself. The landslide was estimated at 300,000 cubic meters. A … Read More

Historically, Sun Valley has been known for a lot of things- the world’s first chairlift, wealthy celebrities, etc. More recently they’ve gained some popularity in the mountain bike world, hosting … Read More

  Mount Rainier is always an exciting ski.  The tallest, most glaciated peak in the Cascade Range has no simple hiking routes to the top.  All routes to the summit … Read More

So on every third Saturday in May the historic Preakness Stakes are held at the Pimlico Racetrack in Baltimore, MD.  It’s the second leg to the U.S. Triple Crown horse racing … Read More

This past weekend I had the fortune of remembering why the Mt. Shasta area is arguably one of the highest quality spring skiing centers known to skiers and riders. With … Read More

This video may be disturbing to some. At first it is difficult to see what happens, but the obvious struggle to pull his chute and the limp legs in the … Read More

This is my second rediculous mountain lion post in a month, but the tale is too good not to share.  When a rabid mountain lion attacked Brandon Arnold’s 90 lb. … Read More

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 Southern Utah The Turret When I left off last week I was covered in poison ivy and questioning my moves. I was deep in the … Read More

It is now 2012 and people 20 years ago would have thought that mankind would have invented some sort of awesome/inexpensive personal flying device by now. Unfortunately our dreams of charging around … Read More

So it turns out Dexter Rutecki, Peter Berg, is now a big time director. Our only question is, who thought it was a good idea to leave Rutecki with $200,000,000 to make … Read More

LIFE Magazine Gallery: Aspen Girls from 1971 You can check out more photos from the LIFE magazine gallery at retronaut.co