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Editor’s Note:
Normal articles will resume after Christmas. Happy Holidays.
The holidays: we're busy coming up with lines like "spice up your spread"
If you read the Beacon often, you probably have noticed that we’ve gone a few days over the last few weeks without publishing articles. Sorry about that. As you can imagine, December is the busiest time of the year at Backcountry.com, so our writers have been slammed with all sorts of last minute stuff to do. You gotta keep the lights on somehow, you know?
The good news is that the end is in sight, which means we have a bunch of new articles and featured pieces on the docket. Next week it looks like we have a full lineup of articles, so stay tuned.
Thanks for reading. Creating these articles gives our writers a much-needed break from crafting product descriptions and such. Because you pretty much go insane after the 400th T-shirt description. Read More …
It’s the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, which means half of our team is already waiting in airports, daydreaming about stuffing, turkey, and future naps.
So we’re going to take a little break for the next few days. But to tide you over until we resume normal articles on Monday, here are a couple of vids and links to some of our winter / fall articles that are worth checking out.
Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving. Read More …
We at Backcountry.com are stoked that The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest will be screened in our backyard this fall as a part of the Park City Film Series. The documentary follows mountaineers Conrad Anker and Leo Houlding as they don leather boots and wool sweaters and attempt to re-create George Mallory’s 1924 ascent to the top of Mount Everest.
About a week ago, an acquaintance told me that Park City, the town in which Deer Valley and Park City ski resorts are located, had put a law on the books that makes speeding on the ski slopes a misdemeanor that could result in a fine or jail time. After doing some research, I’m fairly certain he got this bit of info from Teton Gravity Research.
The Sept. 13 TGR thread begins with DasBlunt posting an article published on Zeta Page about how those who ski too fast at Utah resorts could face jail time. Those on the TGR thread then go on to express their opinions about this policy—some for it, most against. A sample:
Ski patrollers are NOT traffic cops. What is “too fast”? Obviously, out of control is another thing altogether. This is GHEY. – axebiker
Not much is better than a good rant, especially when it happens to be one that gets you thinking about snow and stoked for the season. But reader beware. Read More …
Hiking Baldy at Snowbird on May 1, 2010; Photo by Kris Saign
Assuming you’re in the northern hemisphere, you’re likely looking forward to summer’s arrival instead of backward to winter’s snowy days. Here in Utah, however, after a mediocre ski season, we still have snow on the brain. A 33-inch dump at Snowbird resort last weekend didn’t help any of us move on to our summer sport of choice.
As if we weren’t having enough trouble recovering from last weekend’s powder panic, while we sat at our desks yesterday and watched snowflakes fall outside our office windows, we stumbled onto Flaky Science. The Economist highlights the research of two scientists at the University of Utah who think they’ve determined what weather and temperature conditions make the best snow for skiing and riding. Read More …
Man … Daylight savings is rough. We love the extra hour of daylight at night, but you know as well as we do, that waking up in the morning sucks. It feels more like we lost three hours of sleep. So instead of struggling through emails and trying to put together some semblance of work, we sleuthed through a few posts on the Goat Blog and came across a couple gems of daylight savings time procrastination. Read More …
A stream of skinny people toting messenger bags bang through a busy single door in a corner of Brooklyn near the Atlantic-Pacific transit hub. It’s tucked away in a neighborhood that has yet to feel the frontal assault of gentrification. Two blocks away rent prices triple, but on this side of the busy avenue, people still occasionally park on sidewalks and drink 40′s free of hassle from the police. Read More …