Beginning June 2008, Mount Bachelor will be one of seven ski resorts that will have 100% of their grid supplied electricty offset. Powdr Corp, who owns and operates Mount Bachelor and six other ski resorts across the US, recently purchased 50 million kWh of renewable energy credits. This purchase is the second largest among the [...]

Well, the Wend Blog isn’t strictly reserved for “ye old most extreme vid” out there, but for some reason, we keep coming across a bunch of really, truly, jaw-dropping videos of late. This is Terje Haakenson, whose been snowboarding since the old school days, and this descent puts him in a league of his own. [...]

So I agreed to camera duty yesterday on a Wend outing to Mt Hood. Here’s Wend Ed Ian giving me faceful of powder for my efforts. Thanks bro.

Stiv showing some nice form with this abstract slash.

Brian, styling through the epic conditions.

Skier Matthias Giraud skies off Mississippi Head on Mt. Hood

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRZd1TqcVAk

I watched Schralptown and return to Schralptown this week and really got the bug to hike for some turns soon. This is the trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLjtxEs0_qg

Wend and Marmot are giving away some Marmot gear. Send us a pic of you in your Marmot gear out in the world wending. Go here to see the rules.

Do you know what a splitboard is? A splitboard is a type of snowboard that is cut down the center, so that it can be split into two skis with climbing skins and then reassembled back to a snowboard to ride down. They are way better a way more fun than huffing it up a [...]

Two guys from North Dakota are snowkiting across the state to bring awareness to the potential of wind power.
Via-The Gear Junkie.

This was New Year’s Eve and the first clear day on the mountain in a month. Clear means sun, overcast means powder, and damn there sure was a lot of powder up there.

… in 2 minutes and 10 seconds.