Megan Michelson is the contributing snowsports editor for the Co-op Journal based in Tahoe City, California. She’s formerly an editor at Outside magazine, Skiing magazine and ESPN.com. REI member since 2009.
In 2005, Stacy Bare, then a U.S. Army captain, was stationed in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, working as a civil affairs team leader. His efforts cent...
When my oldest child, Nora, now 4, was an infant, I was adamant that having a baby wouldn’t prevent me from riding my bike around town like I’d always done pre-...
Editor’s note on Aug. 25, 2020: Since this article was first published, Sydney Zester, 26, has released a second book of poems, “Rituals,” which focuses on the ...
Trevor Kennison imagined skiing Corbet’s Couloir—Jackson Hole, Wyoming’s iconic and nearly vertical chute with a dicey, dramatic entrance—six times in his head ...
When Vail Resorts debuted the Epic Pass in 2008, it was a game changer for the ski industry. Never before had a single season pass provided skiers and riders ac...
Seven years ago today, Elyse Saugstad nearly died. The massive avalanche that ripped on the out-of-bounds backside of Stevens Pass ski area, in Washington, kill...
Pro snowboarder Ralph Backstrom has not strapped into his snowboard since April 3, 2017, when he took a dramatic, high-speed tumble down Verbier, Switzerland’s ...
Editor’s note on February 11, 2019: Due to the popularity of the Salomon S/Lab Shift MNC binding, inventory levels may vary.
Pro skier Cody Townsend and I ...
Jon Rockwood is standing in front of a sold-out theater at the Art Haus in Tahoe City, California, getting ready to premiere his 10th ski movie, appropriately c...
Johan Steene, a 44-year-old ultrarunner from Stockholm, Sweden, was lounging in his motel room outside of Nashville, Tennessee, watching TV on Wednesday evening...
Jacob Urban’s depression started after the helicopter crash. It was February 15, 2012, and a helicopter carrying rescue workers from Wyoming’s Teton County Sear...
In late August, a 35-year-old Google employee named Will Barkan ran the Tamalpa Headlands 50K, a trail ultramarathon in Sausalito, California, just north of San...
