- Most black bears will high-tail it when they hear or smell a human. While being loud and ripe with B.O. is a social no-no in the human world, it’s a good idea in bear country.
- If you surprise a bear on the trail, back away while speaking calmly and choose a new route or wait for the bear to leave the area.
- Avoid eye contact. This is perceived as a challenge to bears and may change their attitudes from “What’s that weirdo doing?” to “What the hell are you staring at? I’ll rip you apart, smartass!” Read More …
Gear Articles tagged ‘video’
Black Bear Attacks: What To Do
By: Genevieve Mount | June 21st, 2010Preventing Animal Attacks
By: Genevieve Mount | June 21st, 2010
Happy Solstice, everyone. Now that warm weather is officially here, we implore you to be careful out there. Because along with heat of summer comes something else: deadly animal attacks!
To kick off the summer season, we’ve compiled some tips (and some shockingly realistic videos) on how to handle animal encounters. Over the next few days, keep an eye out for the advice and the video that just might save your life. Read More …
Ski Edge Sharpening
By: JGW | February 3rd, 2010Decades ago, Mr. Young warned us that rust never snoozes. I’m pretty sure Neil was referring to ski edges. Snag-tears in your gloves and pants, and rust stains all over your matching kit: all nasty side effects of poorly maintained ski edges. Read More …
Best Way to Wax Your Skis
By: JGW | February 3rd, 2010Fresh wax smells better than incense any day—just one of many reasons why you should regularly wax your skis.
A well-waxed ski runs more smoothly on any and every snow surface than non-waxed ski. While some novices may feel that a lack of waxing will help them from ‘going too fast,’ this is actually faulty logic. Read More …
How to Fix Core Shots and Deep Scratches with P-Tex
By: JGW | February 3rd, 2010Sharks, demons, and other ski-hungry beasts lurk beneath the clement whiteness that we all ski on top of. Believe it. If you’ve yet to hear the tell-tale crunch of a ski-vs.-rock core shot, consider yourself blessed. Rocks, stumps, and other hard sub-snow nasties want to eat your skis bases, and if you aren’t wary, they’ll eat your ski right out from under you. Fortunately, we have some triage tips for when the ski-eaters pounce. Read More …
How To Deburr Ski Edges
By: JGW | February 2nd, 2010Catching an edge on manky snow sucks. Deburring your ski edges smooths everything out when you’re making turns. Here are some easy steps to deburr your ski edges. Read More …
How to Detune Ski Tips and Tails
By: JGW | February 2nd, 2010Factory-fresh edges are magic underfoot, but let those tips and tail go untouched for long and you’re aiming to hook your way into edge-catch city and tip-dive town. Sharp, tuned edges are there to help you slow and control your descent on the mountain (and so you don’t die on East Coast ice). Thing is, while most of your ski is wrapped with a metal edge, you don’t actually use your entire tip-to-tail edge for control. In fact, the tips and tails of tuned and new skis often hook and catch on the snow, making for bad days on the mountain. Read More …
The Birth of a Ski: When Wood, Fiberglass, Metal, and Beer Meet in a Garage
By: Beth Lopez | October 19th, 2009
If you love talking skis as much as we do, you follow ski companies’ every development, own a coffee table just for a spot to pile the annual Best Of mags, and gorge yourself at resort demo days. But the ability to rattle off a few tech terms, materials, and construction types doesn’t necessarily equate to a commanding knowledge of how skis are actually made. I do know the difference between torsion box construction and a baby unicorn, but for a more in-depth understanding of ski building, I spent some time at the Salt Lake garage workshop operated by Dwyer Haney, HardwoodSkis.com blogger / sandwich-eater extraordinaire. Read More …
Creating the Carabiner: A walk through Black Diamond headquarters
By: Andy Anderson | May 19th, 2009
Strangely enough, the humble beginnings of Salt Lake City-based climbing and skiing gear manufacturer Black Diamond can’t be traced to some snow-choked mountain hamlet or crag-loaded Front Range town. Read More …
Avalanche Control on the 210: Flagstaff Foment
By: JGW | January 25th, 201037 Comments »
Rumors of ski-resort expansion have two unavoidable consequences: rejoicing amongst the piste-oriented pass purchasers and jaded, not-in-my-backyard derision from the skin-track-centered crowd. Stick this scenario between two incomparable gems (Utah’s Alta Ski Resort and the central Wasatch backcountry), and you’re bound for some ski-world fireworks. We’ve heard that working with fireworks—and avalanche artillery—can be dangerous, so we left the conversation to the pros. Listen to our interviews, become informed, and get stoked or jaded accordingly.
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