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A new book charts the evolution of Austrian farmland into megaresorts.

Marilyn Monroe, Jimi Hendrix, and Jerry Garcia are just a few personalities honored by shrines in the woods of Aspen. Check out a few photos of the infamous memorials.

He won two Olympic gold medals, experienced one of the most horrific crashes in racing history, and nearly lost a leg in a motorcycle accident. The Austrian bricklayer turned ski legend won 54 World Cup races and four overall World Cup titles. In October, Hermann Maier announced his retirement. Here are six takes on what his career meant to skiers.

According to Patagonia. We visited the Patagonia headquarters in southern California to talk about recycling clothing, how to get away from petroleum-based fabrics, and a killer washing machine that tests products.

Four upcoming ski movies tackle everything from sailboats to community development in Central Asia. And yes, there’s lots of skiing.

A new iPhone app lets skiers use their phone's video capacity to determine what lifts, chairs, and lodges are nearby. Fancy that.

The man behind two ski magazines moves into politics.

Every winter, hundreds of big-mountain athletes vie for spots on the Freeskiing World Tour, a competition circuit hosted by the International Freeskiers Association. Online registration opens today and tomorrow for this year's stops in Revelstoke, Telluride, Crested Butte, Kirkwood, and Snowbird.

Because the powder is deeper when you ski sitting down.

This mountain looms nearly 6,500 glaciated feet above the town of Engelberg, home to one of Switzerland's longest-operating monasteries. Go there and pray for snow stability and for one of the many transplanted Swedes to show you around so you don't get cliffed out. Or you could bypass Jesus and follow these directions.

EVE 6 and a few other more well known bands, like the Barenaked Ladies, are playing free shows in Vail this week and weekend.

Female skiers are more likely to tear an ACL than men. So we sent our knee-injured intern to the Boulder Center for Sports Medicine to find out why and to learn how to prevent and rehab knee injuries. Including her own.

Marco Sullivan's fan club, decked in "Marco Rocks" T-shirts and hosting cook-offs, proms, and costume contests, celebrated in style at the annual Birds of Prey World Cup Downhill at Colorado's Beaver Creek over the weekend. Kelley McMillan reports from the grand stand.

The latest storm has pummeled Tahoe resorts and is currently heading east, with blizzard warnings through Utah and Colorado. Jeremy Benson gives us a powder-day update from Alpine Meadows, California.

Pyramid Brewery’s sweepstakes could get you five days of resort and cat skiing at Squaw Valley.

We review pants from Patagonia, Scott, Westcomb, and Oakley.

The next time you head to Crested Butte, save some money and meet some interesting personalities by staying at the Wanderlust Hostel in Gunnison, Colorado. For only $23 a night, you’ll get a warm room, communal kitchen, hot shower, and an inviting common space to play the guitar, cards, or just chat with other hostel goers.

A World Cup newbie heads to watch the races at Lake Louise and comes away with four valuable insights, ranging from cowbells to ski racer quads.

With their new avy beacon, the Tracker 2, the crew at Backcountry Access hopes to change the way skiers deal with slides.

One December 1, skier Chris Tatsuno was announced the winner of the Powder Highway Ultimate Ski Bum Contest, which will give him three months of free skiing and travel around BC's Powder Highway. We have his winning YouTube entry, plus a few more of our favorite videos.

Take a look at a year's worth of ski photos in the Rad Boob Calendar documenting some of skiing's favorite females. Created to raise money for the Rethink Breast Cancer Foundation, these ladies provide good reasons for gifting a calendar this Christmas.

Another reason to love Canadians this winter. Canadian Mountain Holidays’ is teaming up with ski mountaineer Greg Hill and Arc’teryx to give away a seven-day helicopter-assisted ski tour with Hill in British Columbia’s Selkirk Mountains.

If it works for Sports Illustrated, it’s got to work for the ski world. The Rad Boob ski calendar, which was put together to raise money for breast cancer awareness, highlights the more desirable talents of some of the ski industry’s favorite females.

If you don’t recognize the name Tom Wallisch you either don’t watch MTV or spend enough time on newschoolers.com. Winner of last season’s Red Bull Dumont Cup, featured on MTV2’s freeskiing episode of the Alli Show, and newly signed Scott athlete, Wallisch answered a few of our questions about being a TV star.

It’s that time of year again—you need to get holiday gifts for Uncle Bob and your sister in New Hampshire. Don’t fret. We have ideas for all the skiers on your list, from your groomer-shredding dad to your jib-rat niece.

We called Eric Edelstein, the founder of exoticskis.com, at his new home in France to talk about the rise of boutique ski companies. He chatted about microbrews, mail-order bases and edges, and the garage-band style of ski manufacturing.

Beaver Creek’s Finest Condominiums and Private Homes

Feeling hungry for winter? Here's a short clip from Rage Films to satiate your appetite.

Don't let fear lock you down in the steeps. Work with your downhill ski, not against it.

Taos Ski Valley kicked off its 2009-2010 season on Thanksgiving with one of their biggest openings ever. It's game on for the best terrain the Southwest has to offer. Enjoy a few shots captured from the day.

Serac Adventure Film School catapults aspiring filmmakers into the Colorado backcountry. From January 25 to February 2, learn how to make your own movie while snow camping, hut traveling, and working with film-school mentors.

...While heli-skiing in Canada. CMH and K2 partner up to offer two seven-day trips to be part of designing the next generation of K2 skis. Where do we sign up?

A Venice, California-based musician tells us about bringing beach music to the mountains, and why L.A. is just like Taos.

Fat skis have redefined the way we ski powder. Once rare, now they’re mainstream—and only getting fatter.

U.S. Women’s Ski Team coaches vie for the sickest mustache in the name of prostate and testicular cancer awareness. Following this weekend's World Cup in Aspen, we sit down with the winner of the mustache contest, women’s technical coach Chris Knight.

Sadly, the contest is over now. But check back for future giveaways. Here's a list of who won this time around.

Sadly, the contest is over now. But check back for future giveaways. Here's a list of who won this time around.

Bolle athlete Jen Hudak plays host to “Twin Tips,” a series of entertaining and educational videos designed to help you ski safer and stronger.

Keep your ankles rolling to stay connected with the slope.

A small New York ski area reopens after a four-year closure, thanks to an army of volunteers and a Texas businessman.

Thousands gather to kickoff ski season in Idaho and play with their new toys, including a new gondola and brand new park features.

Transue can do a 360, enjoys old Warren Miller movies, and likes to listen to the Vermont-based jam band Strangefolk before he races. We chatted with him during a pre-World Cup training day at Copper.

This is our stuff. We own it, use it, and believe in it too. We think you'll like it, too. Check out this video for interviews with the Skiing staff about why they picked mustard, boxed wine, and a flask as part of the Best Gear of the year.

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With the new cookbook from Island Lake Lodge, B.C., on our desks, we're craving pan-seared miso scallops with leek and bacon. And cherry jus-braised organic beef short ribs. And butter curry free-range chicken....

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Check out the Best Photos of the Year gallery from our December 2009 issue in a lovely-to-look-at video slideshow. Also, click to vote for your favorite image—where the readers' choice award photographer will win $500.

Today’s gear lets you use your legs—not your whole body—to move vertically over your skis and apply pressure to your edges.

The Utah-based Levitation Project, a group of filmers, photographers, and athletes, have put together a nice clip of footage starring Rachael Burks, Cody Townsend, Dan Treadway, Jamey Parks, and Elyse Saugstad. Check it out here.

For those to whom Squaw Valley is a religion, rejoice, your church has reopened for worship. JT Holmes celebrated opening day by BASE-jumping off the tram. Video here.

America’s first winter resort built its reputation on unsurpassed opulence. Nearly three quarters of a century later, visitors still indulge in Sun Valley’s luxuries, but now it’s the area’s peaceful simplicity that locals and a shrewd owner are so keen to protect.

BetterThanAir - the leader in Supplemental Oxygen Products for Skiing and other high altitude activities

the leader in Polarized + Photochromic lens technology, introduces the SPPX Eclipse™ model for 2010

Find yourself at home in this Park City, Utah, hotel.

Beaver Creek, Colo.

Manchester, Vt.

In Switzerland, a bluebird powder day when nothing’s been groomed means ready, set…panic? Part four of writer Tim Neville's six-part series.

Ski photographer Lee Cohen created Altaholics Anonymous in 1983, when Utah's Alta ski resort received 244 inches of snow in one month. He launched a website to sell his goods a few years ago, and he's recently added a few more products. Interview by Caroline Gleich.

In our December issue, we take an in-depth look at the Freeride World Tour, an elite big-mountain competition now entering its third season. Here are some video highlights of last year's tour.

For the 2009/10 ski season, Volkl introduces an entirely new concept, called Bio-Logic, that delivers a huge leap in performance PLUS the potential to reduce injury.

With some 24,000 acres of lift-serviced terrain, 160 lifts and 15 ski areas overall, the Tahoe Basin is the stuff that skiers' dreams are made of.

Known for their thoughtful staff and remarkable service.

A new website, flightcaster.com, aims to alert travelers to flight delays hours before the airlines would, allowing for easier rebooking and planning.

Northstar’s new Chocolate Bar is, well, sweet.

Skiing Magazine's Senior Editor Sam Bass is logging a lot of vertical this week. Check out his images to see what skiing in Antarctica is like.

You've probably seen pro skier Colby West's goofy impersonations and singalongs in Matchstick Productions' films. They're funny, right? Well, now he's bringing his camera-friendly mug to the commercial side of things, with a slapstick ad for Vail Resorts' Epic Pass.

An afternoon of stories, wisdom, and one large palm tree. Jake Davis spends some time with Klaus Obermeyer, who turns 90 in December.

Check out the newest Hestra freeride glove designed by a pro

This just in: Intrawest—the company that owns Whistler Blackcomb, Winter Park, Steamboat, and other ski resorts—announced today that they're selling Copper Mountain to Powdr Corp, which also owns Park City Mountain Resort.

Jacket-of-All-Trades

Last weekend called for up to a foot in the southern Rocky Mountains. With high hopes, we headed to Copper Mountain, which was expecting the brunt of the storm.

Known as the "Teen Heartthrob", 18-year-old pro skier Bobby Brown talks about prom, pond skimming, and his plan to go big this season.

Skier and climate change activist Alison Gannett is at it again. But this time, she's walking 225 miles across European flatlands en route to the UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen. She'll be carrying skis on her back to raise awareness for our dwindling snowpack.

Jackson Hole custom-ski-maker Igneous produces one-off powder boards made to withstand any kind of beating. If you can find the warehouse in Jackson (through an unmarked door in an industrial-looking building), they'll make you whatever you want.

A red menace is sweeping North America’s lodgepole forests, killing trees in ski country from Colorado to British Columbia. This might be good news after all.

At Vermont’s Trapp Family Lodge, cross-country skiing got down to business.

Maine's sleeping giant awakes just in time for the 09/10 season

It’s easy to understand why you’d be obsessed with Nevada. The more than 24,000 acres of skiable terrain, 33 feet of annual snowfall and 18 incredible ski resorts at legendary Lake Tahoe would thrill anyone.

So, it’s your second season in Jackson and you just called mom to break the news you won’t be heading east for Christmas. Let her know you already have a list of potluck party invites, even if you don’t. If you do—here are a few tips for blowing the pom-poms off your friends' tuques.

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