Mike Hardaker

Mike Hardaker is Editor & Publisher of the Mountain Weekly News. A talented photographer and snowboarder, Mike has lived and worked in the Rocky Mountains for the past eleven years and is spending the 2011-2012 La Nina winter in Washington and traveling across the country in search of deep snow. His passion for being on snow and at live concerts can be found throughout his work.

Web Site: http://www.mtnweekly.com


The North Face Park and Pipe Open Northstar

Clayton Villa Sending it at The North Face Park and Pipe Open

Truckee, California -The North Face Park and Pipe Open Series (PPOS) will return to Northstar California Resort February 9- 12, 2012. The second stop on the three-stop tour will feature slopestyle and halfpipe competitions in which a worldwide roster of competitors will vie for the chance to claim a prize purse worth over $20,000....
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Bipartisan Politics and Higher Education: Two Roads to Nowhere?

Bipartisan Politics

By Patricia Leavy, PhD., author of Essentials of Transdisciplinary Research Americans have long grown sick of political in-fighting. Our leaders seem unable to get anything done because they’re too busy waving their party flag and flat-out refuse to work together to solve our many pressing problems. Politicians are in a game of Color-War that...
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Oakley Airbrake Goggle Review

Oakley Airbrake Review

Oakley created a new set of snow goggles for 2012 called the Airbrake featuring Switchlock technology. When my sample pair arrived in the mail I was stoked to try them on and even more pumped to take them on the hill for some testing. Over the past month I have been rocking the Airbrake...
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Backcountry Powder I Love La Nina

Mt Baker Avalanche 2-1-11 Hardaker Photo

Mt Baker has been going off all season and for the first time the ski area is seeing a major avalanche cycle. Recent rain formed a crust layer around 5,500 feet that acted as a trigger point for slides that ran on most aspects. The rain eventually turned to snow, lots of snow and...
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Skier Buried in Avalanche Video Footage

Mt Baker Avalanche Skier Fully Burried

The skier in the video was caught in an Avalanche above the Mt. Baker Ski Area on January 14th 2012 in a zone that is accessed via the resort. He got really lucky that his friend was able to dig him out, and thanks to technology in the backcountry we have some incredible GoPro...
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