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“I really want to be an expert at Olympic qualification and quota allocation,” said no one ever. And yet, every four years people care deeply about this very topic, and none more than the athletes themselves. Marching behind your flag into the opening ceremonies and competing in the Olympics is a lifetime dream for many,

Receive $50 off an eligible $100 purchase at the Outside Shop, where you’ll find gear for all your adventures outdoors. Sign up for Outside+ today. It’s almost time! We can practically hear the Olympic theme song playing in our heads. So when the first ski events of the 2022 Winter Olympics kick off in Beijing

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The Natural Selection Tour has returned for its second year and we couldn’t be more stoked to watch everything unfolding at the tour’s first stop in Jackson Hole. Day 1–women’s quarterfinals and men’s qualifiers–took place on the first day of the contest window, Tuesday, January 25th. Here’s a quick recap of the results, but we

If there’s one state that’s synonymous with skiing, it’s Colorado. Home to over 30 ski resorts big and small, the Centennial State has options for everyone, from the destination mega resorts with massive hotels at their bases to quaint, independent ski areas that still welcome school groups and dole out complementary passes to seniors. Related:

Day 1 of the Yeti Natural Selection went down on the first day of the contest window at Jackson Hole. On Tuesday, January 25th, 24 riders dropped in on the rider’s right side of the course, finding lines and hitting features in the first stop of the second-year evolution of the Natural Selection Tour. Conditions

A successful day in the backcountry begins when you’re still in your pajamas. Reading your local avalanche report is an important part of most skier’s morning ritual (along with an extra strong cup of coffee), but it’s one that’s easy to rush through. Rebecca Yaguda, AMGA apprentice ski and rock guide and AIARE instructor in

Sun Valley is this country’s original destination ski resort—which means it pretty much invented the American ski vacation.  It all started when railroad magnate Averell Harriman, inspired by the ski resorts so prevalent in the Alps, had a dream to create a luxurious, Alpine-inspired destination resort in the United States. So, in 1936, armed with

Bear Mountain’s Sunday in the Park was one of the very first web series to grace the internet–its Youtube archives date back to the winter of 2012-13. That’s an impressive feat which is further bolstered by the fact that Sunday in the Park is still churning out hammer-filled edits from the legendary park oasis in

Receive $50 off an eligible $100 purchase at the Outside Shop, where you’ll find gear for all your adventures outdoors. Sign up for Outside+ today. COVID-19 has brought legions of new enthusiasts to the outdoors, but climate change threatens to send them right back inside. That’s a key takeaway from a new study, “Global Environmental

The U.S. Ski Team will travel across the globe to Beijing, China, in early February in pursuit of Olympic glory, to compete at a Winter Olympics that will be unlike any of the previous 23, which began with the inaugural games in Chamonix in 1924, nearly 100 years ago.   When the XXIV Olympic Winter

Discipline Moguls Hometown Vail, Colorado Age 17 Career Highlight 3rd place in singles moguls at the FIS Freestyle World Cup in Ruka, Finland It shouldn’t come as a surprise that 17-year-old moguls phenom Kai Owens loves “pretty much all sports.” She doesn’t get to compete in anything else on a high level due to her

Breezy Johnson, Team USA’s biggest Olympic medal contender in women’s downhill racing, announced today that she is withdrawing from the Beijing Olympics due to injury. Johnson, who was ranked second in the world in downhill this season and had a real shot at claiming her first Olympic medal in Beijing, crashed in a training run

Receive $50 off an eligible $100 purchase at the Outside Shop, where you’ll find gear for all your adventures outdoors. Sign up for Outside+ today. A few years ago, when China was really in the thick of trying to become a state-sponsored winter sports nation, I was walking down a street in the town of