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Jaded In Mammoth – Season Closer
Words by the Jaded LocalPhotography by Christian Pondella It’s not all heli rides and Industry Events here in the Ski Media. Sure, you’ve been mountain biking for months, all the pro skiers went to...
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Sierra Stackage Stomps Mt. Shredly
By Hans LudwigMAMMOTH, Calif.March 24. Getting deep here. Too deep if anything. I started writing this update on the 21st, after the first five to eight feet fell in three days. And then it kept...
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Making Locals Jaded
Once upon a time Sunshine Village, near Banff, was best known for things like snow and skiing. Today, not so much. Photo: Ryan CrearyBy Hans LudwigThere’s a saying in the PR game that there’s no such...
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Jaded Rejects #1: Rejection Letter
Photo: Jordan ManleyBy The Jaded Local1Hi! Welcome to the inaugural voyage of Jaded Rejects. Go ahead and make yourself comfortablejust, um, clear the empties off the couch over there. Sorry the place...
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Re: Making Locals Jaded
Healy Pass, Sunshine Village backcountry, Banff National Park, Alberta. Photo: Ryan Creary(Eds note: After an op-ed posted here, Sunshine Village contacted us requesting the opportunity to respond. In...
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Jaded Rejects #2: Take a Lesson
Photo:Oskar EnanderBy The Jaded Local1T.A.L.2You’ve got the biggest, most rockered skis. You’ve got the bling-ass boots, the high-DIN binders, the Avalung, the GoPro, the sick outerwear. You read the...
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Jaded Rejects #3: Adversarial Skiing
Photo: Mark GallupBy The Jaded LocalFrankly, professional skiing is getting a little boring. I know, I knowThe Level is off the charts. People (or at least one of them) are doing double flips off...
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Jaded Rejects #4: Upload from a Dying Hard Drive
Jaded Rejects #4: Notes from a dying hard driveBy The Jaded LocalOminous grinding sounds. A flickering screen. The Jaded Laptop is on its last legs. So this week’s Content Upload is going to be the...
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Jaded Rejects #5
Photo: Jace RomickBy The Jaded Local1Things have reached the point where someone could stick a 375-foot jump on a pair of 20-plus year old skis and not one professional Ski Journalist notices. How do I...
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Jaded Rejects #6: Tuning In
Photo: Jordan ManleyBy The Jaded LocalIt’s that time of year again, when you pull the skis out of the moldering junkpile in the back of the pickup where you left them last May and realize that it’s...
View ArticleWish You Were Here
By The Jaded LocalExtravaganzery? Extravagantilation? Something like that. Sun Valley rolled out the red carpet for their wayward Powder children, and the locals embraced us like long-lost brothers and...
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Jaded Rejects, No. 7: And So It Begins
'This guy won Opening Day...' -TJL Photo: The Jaded LocalToday, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibrationthat we are all one consciousness experiencing...
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Jaded Rejects, No. 8: The One Where My Soul Burns with Dark Fire
Photo: Dan BayerBy The Jaded Local1Ok, forget everything that I said in the last installment about how awesome early season is and how killer it is to shred the groomers with friends, et cetera. Forget...
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The circus has left town; Powder Week is over. Bartenders will look off into the distance and get all misty-eyed, editors and product managers will be called on the corporate carpet for outrageous...
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aggressive standby: What an AK heli guide says to clients to imply there is a chance the weather will clear and they will fly. Exactly the same as standby, just more dynamic sounding. Hows it going...
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Junk in the Truck: 2013 Dynafit Huascaran
Dynafit Huascaran Photo: The Jaded LocalWords: The Jaded LocalThe only growth in the gear market right now is in backcountry equipment. The big traditional alpine companies are building “sidecountry”...
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John Clauson is Kicking Cancer
John Clauson. Photo: Scott D.W. SmithWords: The Jaded LocalWhen I was visiting Silverton last season to ski with guys at the heart of the ski area’s snow safety program, I told John Clauson that I was...
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Jaded Local: Might As Well Face It
Closing day at Mammoth. PHOTO: THE JADED LOCALWords: The Jaded LocalShot out of a cannon, a skier careens through the smithereens of another ski season. Births deaths funerals reunions mountains...
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The Jaded Local: June Gloom
3d Chute (far left), the ramp of Dream Mountain, and Upper Hemlock. Photo: The Jaded LocalWords and Photo: The Jaded Local“Are you all right? What’s wrong?”“A great disturbance in the Force, as if...
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Interns Wanted: Earn College Credit*
Ski Journalism: The Truth is out there somewhere. Now let's go to the bar. PHOTO: MIKE WELCHJaded Local seeks avy II-certified college students to work closely with Renowned Ski Journalist. Race...
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