You are browsing the archives of snowboarding.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Some local snowboarders in the North Carolina High Country are taking advantage of this year’s snowfall and making some fresh backcountry tracks. Eric Crews, who shared some of his favorite outdoor spots around Boone as this month’s Outside Insider, just sent me this video he made during some backyard runs on the local slopes of [...]

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 [...]

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

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

A heated winter jacket. Avoid-grip trekking poles. Gummy athletic gel. These are a few of the innovative products coming to market later in 2009 in the outdoors industry. Last week, at the Outdoor Retailer Winter Market trade show in Salt Lake City, I got a peek into this future of outdoors [...]

If any place in Appalachia can still make you feel like you’re in the middle of nowhere, it’s West Virginia’s Canaan Valley. Development is limited. Light pollution is minimal. Backcountry is everywhere.

START HERE
The unimposing Whitegrass Ski Touring Center (whitegrass.com) is the home for cross-country skiing in the rugged region of the Mountain State. With over [...]