At approximately 3:45pm this afternoon, 27-year-old John Nicoletta of Aspen, Colorado, died due to injuries sustained during a fall while competing on the first day of the Freeskiing World Championships at Alyeska Resort, Alaska. Nicoletta was the 47th competitor of the day down ...

Billy Poole was quite a spectacle/specimen. A spectacle specimen I saw in Billy Poole. Billy's agile nature and the clever way he went about could only be described by first simply shaking his hand/paw and seeing the kindness in his eyes then quickly realizing what a physical ...

Mid-winter blues kicked in a little while ago. What are midwinter-blues? Its that feeling when you have skied more powder than your legs can handle, it isn't snowing 10cms everyday, and people you know are dieing in the mountains. Thats the blues. But one bluebird day in the ...

Billy Poole died today skiing in Wolverine Cirque in Utah. He sustained trauma skiing that friends and ambulance staff couldn't stabilize. Follow the link inside to read the report. Our thoughts are with Billy's family and friends. Memorial details for Thursday enclosed.

I was shocked last night to learn of the tragic passing of another young ripper, Neal Valiton, who perished during his run at the Freeride World Finals in Tignes, France, last Wednesday. While I hardly knew Neal, the news conjured vivid memories of trying to understand and ...

This is the February 11th dispatch from Eric Segalstad in Kashmir discussing the recent avalanche and resulting death in Gulmarg.

When you lose someone close to you, there’s only a few ways that you can keep your memories of that person from fading into the recesses of your mind. As time works away at the fleeting moments that you’ve stored from the past, you begin to worry that not only have you lost a ...

Tobias Lee, accomplished as a human being and a skier, passed away on Tuesday, April 18 in the Mt. Baker backcountry.

Marc-Andre Belliveau suffered a life altering Spinal Cord injury early last week while skiing in British Columbia. Marc has been consistently putting together some of the best film segments for years on end. Those who know him personally will tell you that his lively personality ...

Randy Reynolds, a cameraman from Park City just called me with the awful news. I had been so wrapped up lately with paragliding projects that I was just not up on all the ski media news. Randy said he heard that Doug Coombs just perished in La Grave. He said something about ...