A man doing snow study tests on a mountain in Ketchikan, Alaska this weekend found and freed a black bear cub who had become trapped in a plastic jar. Michael Schuler was hiking and evaluating avalanche risk on Deer Mountain with his dog when he notices a small animal struggling to free itself from a jar. Schuler pinned the jar to the snow with his ice axe, then and cut it open with a pocket knife. "He was really tucked up, he was quite cold–totally snow covered," Schuler said. The bear ... Read More
On Tuesday, the Utah House of Representatives passed a resolution in support of a controversial plan to connect four ski areas in Park City with three ski resorts in Cottonwood canyon. In a largely symbolic vote that split along party lines, Republicans threw their support behind a proposed SkiLink network that would include a tram through the Wasatch backcounty. "Although widely seen in Europe, a connection of this scale does not exist in North America," said Ski Utah President Nathan Raffer... Read More
NASA is planning to launch five rockets sometime within the next month that will help meteorologists track the flow of the jet stream off the Atlantic coast. Once airborne from Wallops Island, Virginia, the rockets will expel a cloudy film in the upper atmosphere, then crash land in the ocean. The film will be visible to scientists and should help explain wind patterns at high altitude, where speeds can reach 300 miles per hour. The films will also be partially visible to east coast residents ... Read More
Filmmaker and ocean explorer James Cameron plans to descend to the ocean's deepest point in the Mariana Trench in a one-man submersible within the next few weeks. If successful, Cameron will become the first human to visit the floor of Mariana Trench, seven miles below the ocean's surface, in more than 50 years. He would also become the first person in history to do it alone. Cameron's Australian-built sub has been called "as futuristic as anything in his movies," and will allow the filmmaker ... Read More
Steve Romeo, the blogger behind the influential backcountry skiing website Teton AT, has been killed in an avalanche outside Jackson Hole, Wyoming. According to Jackson Hole News & Guide, Romeo and Jackson Hole Mountain Resort employee Chris Onufer were reported missing on Wednesday evening after failing to return from a ski tour in Grand Teton National Park. A search and rescue mission launched Thursday morning discovered a large avalanche on Ranger Peak. Rescuers recovered Romeo's and On... Read More
