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Snowboard news from real snowboarders, snowboard industry rants, snowboard travel news and the latest snowboard company news. The Mountain Weekly News is based in Colorado with a good portion of the staff snowboarding daily, looking for news on snowboard shops, new snowboard products, Colorado snowboard pictures and more, this is the place.

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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Homeschool Snowboarding Review

Morgan Hebert Mt Baker 2-1-11 Photo Mike Hardaker

Homeschool Snowboarding team rider Morgan Hebert and I went off today in search of pow laps and face shots. It only took a few seconds before we were smiling from ear to ear and kicking up rooster tails full of snow at the Mt Baker Ski Area… Product testing has never been so fun!!...
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Mt Baker Powder

Morgan Hebert Mt Baker 2-1-11 Photo Mike Hardaker

Mt Baker powder days seem to never stop! The ski area currently has a 200″ base and conditions are simply epic. The best part is Mt Baker now has more snow than Jackson Hole, Squaw and Snowbird combined!! Moving our main product testing facility to the northwest for the season turned out to be...
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Cornice Cutting

Cornice Cutting

The above video is surely a good way to get killed, the audio alone is a priceless gem. Are we watching porn or people testing Darwinism on snow? Standing atop a cornice trying to break it off with your ski is a good way to end up tumbling down a mountainside in an avalanche....
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World Heli Challenge Heads to Alaska

World Heli Challenge

Valdez, Alaska – The World Heli Challenge will be taking place April 14th-24th 2012 in Alaska and then will head south to New Zealand for a stop in Wanaka August 1-14 2012. The first stop of the tour kicks off in the soaring mountains of Valdez Alaska this April. “The World Heli Challenge, King...
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