“Information Flash” is FREESKIER’s on-line column designed to maintain you recent with snippets of outside information it’s good to find out about. This text is printed weekly on Wednesdays.
This Week’s Climate Forecast
Winter is again in full pressure
The Sierras and Central Rockies had been favored the primary half of this week, with heavy storms leaving toes of recent. The subsequent storm cycle this weekend will land in Canada and the PNW earlier than making its means south early subsequent week. Welcome again, winter!
This Week’s High Headlines
Colorado Avalanche Info Middle releases sobering statistic
A lot of the Western United States is coping with an uncommon snowpack, and the final week in Colorado has been particularly tumultuous, based on the CAIC. Since February 17, lower than seven days, 9 individuals have been caught in avalanches, together with one fatality close to Crested Butte.
Mt. Bachelor opens 22-foot halfpipe for the season
It’s not at each ski resort that you’ll find a 22-foot halfpipe. They’re costly to construct and preserve, and solely see a choose variety of skiers and riders inside the large partitions. Mt. Bachelor is formally one of many few ski areas within the nation that boasts one in every of these dangerous boys, and it’s formally open for the season.
Caroline Gleich hosts first fundraising occasion TONIGHT
Earlier this yr, Caroline Gleich introduced her candidacy for the Utah Senate. Each an athlete and an activist, Gleich is defying the established order of each the ski trade and the U.S. authorities, and her first fundraising occasion goes down tonight at HK Brewing in Salt Lake Metropolis. Click on right here to RSVP.
Keystone Resort celebrates Queer Ski Weekend beginning March 1
Queer Ski Weekends are nothing new, however by no means has there been one at Keystone Resort earlier than. The Colorado entrance vary resort will kick off the festivities on March 1 with Sashay on the Slopes.
Alex Ferreira makes halfpipe historical past
Alex Ferreira is on a tear this yr, and the proof is within the historical past made. After lacing a fourth straight win in Males’s Halfpipe, Ferreira is the primary male skier to ever achieve this.
What to Watch
Connor Ryan releases new YouTube sequence, “The New Radical”
“This sequence is for everybody who finds a strategy to do what’s radical for themselves, for his or her group and for our planet. This sequence is for everybody who has discovered to stay a extra radical life from their relationship to the mountains.” – Connor Ryan
Amie Engerbretson calls herself out in new movie, “The Hypocrite”
Are you able to be a local weather activist and a snowmobiler? Are you able to advocate for coverage modifications concerning local weather well being and nonetheless journey? Amie Engerbretson explores these robust questions in her new movie, “The Hypocrite.”
The North Face celebrates 40 years of working with Scot Schmidt
Scot Schmidt was on the forefront of the freeskiing revolution when joined The North Face (TNF) athlete group in 1983. Over 40 years later, Schmidt joins fellow skiers and TNF Athletes Ingrid Backstrom, Dennis Ranalter, Tom Wallisch and Jossi Wells for a spherical desk dialogue on the influence he and his outerwear line Steep Tech have had on snowboarding and tradition.
