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You think snowboarding’s cool? Check out the next evolution of snowboarding: Noboarding. Take your standard snowboard, strip the bindings and stick a stomp pad on top. Then rip powder sans bindings. The niche sport gets back to snowboarding’s surf-like roots, and opens up a whole new world of tricks in the process. Granted, there are [...]

For more than two decades, Skip Brown has been taking pictures for adventure magazines like Outside, Men’s Journal, National Geographic, Runner’s World, and Blue Ridge Outdoors. Along the way, he’s mountain biked Copper Canyon, Mexico; kiteboarded the Columbia River Gorge; paddled the Congo River; and boarded the British Columbia backcountry—all while balancing family life in [...]

West Virginia delegate John Doyle has introduced a bill (HB4192) that, if passed, would create a West Virginia Ski Resort Industry Commission designed to identify potential locations for new ski resorts, according to a recent article by the Charleston Gazette. The Mountain State currently has four downhill resorts that bring in 800,000 tourists and $250,000 [...]

A new bill introduced in California would make ski helmets mandatory for all minors and employees at any resort in the state. Intrawest, the mega-corp that owns a network of resorts across the U.S., including Snowshoe Mountain Resort in West Virginia, enacted a similar policy at all of its resorts this season. Any kid involved [...]

We’ve had unprecedented amounts of early-season powder here in the Southeast. There’s been a constant base of snow in the high elevations near BRO’s NC office for almost a month. Canaan Valley, W.Va. has gotten 114 inches of snow already. Snowshoe Mountain Resort has gotten even more. The constant base on the mountain tops have [...]

Coastal Carolina Mom Wins Extreme Freeskiing Championships
Ashley Woody is a 47-year old wife, mother, and current U.S. Extreme Freeskiing Masters Champion. Woody, a resident of the Charleston, S.C., lowcountry for 14 years, won her division of the championship competition in Crested Butte last February.
Not many freeskiing champions live in Charleston, S.C. Do you spend a [...]

Skiing is dangerous, right?. You’re strapping into a set of hard plastic boots and stiff, sharp boards and flying 20 mph down an ice and snow covered mountain. And you’re doing it with about a thousand other people, while surrounded by trees. That’s a recipe for disaster, right? Wrong. A new study published in Sports [...]

Get to your local ski shop and get the gear ready—the Southern ski season is upon us. Temps are going to drop as the end of the week approaches with snow expected in the Virginias. Snowshoe Mountain already has the guns blazing and lifts will start running this Saturday, December 5. The same goes for [...]

A West Virginia couple has filed a lawsuit against Snowshoe Mountain Resort for “severe physical injuries and emotional distress” sustained while skiing Snowshoe’s Western Territory, home to black diamond slopes Cupp Run and Shay’s Revenge. The couple alleges that Snowshoe lured them into the difficult terrain by a savvy marketing ploy. In its marketing materials, [...]

48.6: Percent of Americans who participated in an outdoor activity in 2008. But 43 percent of those participants played outside less than twice a month.
4,857,000: Number of Americans who ran trails last year, up 15 percent from the previous year. Still, trail runners lack the numbers of road runners.
41,130,000 Americans ran on the roads last [...]

The infamous weather system kicked in during the summer, bringing plenty of rain to the Southeast, and giving us one of the wettest summer/falls this region has seen in several years. There were mudslides on the Parkway, flooding in Georgia, and some seriously damp basements in between. Watching the flooding footage on the news, I [...]

Regional ski resorts get early snow

Skier sues Snowshoe for effective marketing

Miller returns to U.S. Ski Team

My kids are two weeks old–is it too soon to start training them for the Winter Olympics?