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Finally, we got some snow here. At least for the few days…the sad truth is that the 15 days forecast shows + degrees (Celsius) for the whole period. So, we had a taste of winter for a short time. The two previous winters have been exceptionally warm here and I guess this one won’t break [...]

In the first part of this avalanche articles series I discussed about the basics and the behavior of an avalanche. In the second part I discussed how to avoid an avalanche. In this third part of the series I dig into the most interesting part, examining the snow. This is an important skill to have [...]

Come on, this is unbelievable! Ridiculous! It is December 15th. and we have no snow here in Helsinki (Finland)! I do not know what to say, this is so unreal. Al Gore seems to be right, the climate is changing fast. Back in the 80’s it was so much different. We used to have real [...]

According to Vaildaily, the Vail Mountains will be opened on Friday, but they are still waiting for the big snow. We also had the ski season 07/08 opening expo here in Finland a couple of weeks ago, but as you probably have heard, FIS alpine skiing world cup Levi race was moved from Finland to [...]