This is amazing. A skier was buried beneath an avalanche for 17 hours in the Swiss Alps before being pulled from the snow with only mild hypothermia.

Heyyy, where the heck is the best powder right now?! No worries because this tiny little gadget helps you to find the best powder in few seconds.

Our kids in Helsinki would love to have a snowy playground, but the project was frozen. Help us by signing a petition!

We are so used to ski and snowboard in vertical position that it wouldn’t even come to our minds to ski in horizontal position. Hangboarding is a combination of skiing and snowboarding, invented by Canadian Don Arney. Because of the horizontal skiing position, hangboarding reminds me from hang gliding. Instead of bindings hangboard has a [...]

Sad but true. People get older, including you and me. As we get older, we most probably gain more responsibility at home and at work. The more we have responsibility, the less we have time of our own. I realized this few years ago as we got more children. It was early ski season and [...]

Yesterday I watched Wildboyz on MTV. Some things they do are disgusting, but I have to say it looks a lot of fun. Sometimes I feel like I wish I was there with Wildboyz. Anyhow, they are stuntmen and they know what they are doing. I would just kill myself when trying those freaky tricks.
Dropping [...]

Back in 1999 I was living my dream with my friends. We were ski bums spending the whole ski season in Chamonix in France. Being a ski bum was absolutely one of the highlights in my life, not just because of skiing but also because of great friendships we created and the great moments we [...]

For those who are planning to ski in Chamonix I would like to suggest Gîte D’Étape La Tapia, a very cheap and good hostel located close to Chamonix center. I have stayed in many hostels in Chamonix, and La Tapia is one of the best ones I have found in Chamonix. I stayed in La [...]

This is a Doomsday article. Climate change is going to kill skiing industry. The amount of snow in this planet will decrease day by day until skiing in most of the countries is impossible. This is how I see it and it is based on real-life experience. Period.
Am I over-reacting? Maybe, maybe not. The fact [...]

Would you like to write and publish your road trip stories, gear reviews, resort reviews, book or DVD reviews, how to articles or just anything related to skiing, and reach interested readers? Now you can do it with HomeboySki.Com! We are looking for contributors to enrich HomeboySki.Com’s content. As old farts we sometimes feel like [...]

Glorious life, awesome powder skiing, living like a rock star. Great friendships, easy living, money and exposure. Traveling around the globe, dangerous moments, unexpected situations. Is that the life of skibums? Well, not actually. This article talks about the life of skibums, those free radicals of skiing surrounded by glory and fame. Hah! What an [...]

We have three kids in our family, and one of them is my four-year-old son. I am going to take him skiing with me next season, and I have been thinking “what should I know about skiing with a child“. This short article points out few things to remember when you start skiing with your [...]