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Mount Bohemia’s Voodoo Mountain underwent a seven-run expansion over the summer. | Credit: Skiers over 60 Facebook Skiers at Michigan’s most beloved ski resort will have brand-new terrain to explore this season.  Mount Bohemia recently announced the completion of seven new runs in its Voodoo Mountain area. Located about 10 minutes north of Bohemia, Voodoo…

Unclaimed Baggage, located in Scottsboro, AL, is set to host its 44th annual “Ski Sale” with only lost baggage. | Credit: Gear Patrol The United States’ only retailer of lost luggage, Unclaimed Baggage, is set to host its 45th annual Ski Sale event on November 7, 2026. While Scottsboro, Alabama, might not be known for…

Eight injured, and five were unaccounted for after the Thusis restaurant fire in Switzerland. | Photo: Police The Thusis restaurant fire destroyed a building housing a restaurant and apartments in Thusis, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, overnight Thursday into Friday. Five people are missing, and eight others were injured, according to the Graubünden Cantonal…

Marco Odermatt in Zermatt. | Image: Rene van Engelen This summer on Zermatt’s famous Theodul Glacier has been very different — and concerning. Typically, the glacier’s lifts spin throughout the summer, allowing skiers to enjoy summer laps under the sun. But this summer has been vastly different. Since early August, operations have been temporarily suspended…

Report from August 7-8, 2026 My wife recently got into river rafting with her friends and had me, an old high school buddy, Vince, and his wife go on a class 1-2 river rafting trip on the Colorado River from Fruita, CO, toward Moab, UT, in August 2024. The whole trip was hilarious in lovely…

Tolhauca Volcano resting peacefully at night under a sea of stars. | Photo: Martin Kuprianowicz Report from mid-August, 2026 In the blue light of dusk, I took the hairpin turn at the bottom of the abandoned half-snow, half-volcanic-rock service road at dangerous speed, carrying a literal bag of shit on my back. A fall here…

American snowboarder and drone pilot Spencer Whiting aka “Gimbal God” and crew are back in Chile this austral winter for what is the snowiest winter the Central Andes have seen in over a decade. Snowmobiles, helicopters, avalanches, hectic travel on muddy dirt roads — Whiting and his crew are documenting all of the wild adventures…

Helicopter crews have been carrying in tower footings for the resort’s new Electric Horseman chairlift. | Credit: Sundance Resort One of Utah’s major new lifts is starting to come to life.  Sundance Mountain Resort recently posted a construction update on its Facebook page about its new Electric Horseman lift. So far, construction crews have been working on…

Banff National Park | Image: Wikimedia Commons The 2021 avalanche on Haddo Peak in Banff National Park killed an experienced Canmore skier. More than five years later, an Alberta inquiry has turned the case into a broader call for change. Spencer Postman and Kevin Rohn set out to ski Haddo Peak near Lake Louise on…

Washington’s White Pass Ski Area has been working on its new Base Camp Lodge for months, and construction is nearing completion. | Credit: White Pass Skiers at Washington’s White Pass Ski Area will have a brand-new facility to enjoy this season.  Over the past several months, White Pass has been working on the construction of…