With a planned season start date of November 14, 2025, Mammoth Mountain is aiming to be one of the first-open ski resorts in California. What will Mammoth Mountain’s opening day bring? Tough to say.

What can go wrong?” I ask my instructor Luca, as he straps me to a harness attached to a huge parachute, looking over a mountain edge. “A lot of things in life can go wrong,” he smiles, which does ...

Months before the first snow beckons skiers, sheep and goats are hitting the slopes in Vermont. Dozens of animals have been mowing down overgrown vegetation at Jay Peak near the Canadian border.

Remember Malory Towers? The high jinks of boarding school subculture that we gorged on as kids? Less well known, but a personal favourite, was the Chalet School series, set above the snowline in ...

Kilian Jornet grew up in the Pyrenees Mountains of northern Spain, the son of a man who operated a backcountry hut for mountain travelers. Since then he has made himself at home in mountain ranges ...

Copper Mountain announced that as of Oct. 1, its snow guns are live and snowmaking activities are fully underway, unofficially kicking off Colorado’s winter 2025-26 ski season.

As you may have noticed from this list, a few Colorado ski resorts tend to open before the rest, like Wolf Creek, Arapahoe Basin, Keystone, and Loveland. Among these mountains, Wolf Creek was the ...

The world has become focused on achieving a global climate target with the goal of mitigating the effects of climate change. Some countries, and even cities, have also implemented personal climate ...

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