Do you know what happened in the mountains this week? Here’s a selection of backcountry news, articles, posts, videos, photos, and other cool things that we think you’d like to know about. Enjoy!
- NatGeoMaps Makes It Easy To Find, Download, And Print Any USGS Topo Map For Free – A Mountain Journey – Need a USGS topo map? NatGeoMaps has all USGS quads available for free.
- Avalanche Control Systems To Be Installed On Remote Section Of British Columbia’s Highway 1 – A Mountain Journey – Highway 1 near Three Valley Gap will have remote avalanche control systems installed for avalanche mitigation over the Trans-Can.
- Maddie Miller Sets New Record For The 50 Peaks Challenge in 41 Days, 16 Hours, and 10 Minutes – A Mountain Journey – Congrats to Maddie Miller for setting the new 50 Peaks Challenge Record.
- Miranda Oakley Sets New Female Solo Speed Record On The Nose On El Capitan – A Mountain Journey – Miranda Oakley climbed the Nose in 21 hours, 50 minutes – setting a new women’s solo speed record.
- Mountain Collective Adds Revelstoke And Telluride | Buy Your Ski Pass Now – A Mountain Journey – This could now be the best ski pass for #vanlife.
- Vail Resorts Buys Whistler Blackcomb In $1.4 Billion Deal – A Mountain Journey – Vail Resort continues to influence the ski industry with major resort purchases.
- Alberta Mountain Guide Nearly Killed By Falling Boulder Determined To Walk And Climb Again – CBC.ca – Even though a 300 kg chunk of granite rolled over Ryan Titchener below Pigeon Spire in Bugaboo Provincial Park, the guide is determined to recover.
- 27-Year-Old Buys Colorado Ski Resort Out Of Bankruptcy For $3.8M – UnofficialNetworks – Peter Burwell, 27, just bought Echo Mountain near Denver.
- Feds Thinning Burro Herd In Red Rock Canyon Area Near Vegas – MyNews4.com – Federal officials are planning to corral 40 wild burros in Spring Mountain Ranch State Park near Red Rock Canyon near Vegas.
- Climber Rescued After Granite Peak Fall – BozemanDailyChronicle.com – A fall on Montana’s highest peak severely injured a 19 year old.
- Summer Snow Falls Overnight On Pikes Peak – CBSDenver – Snow hit the high country in Colorado this week.
- Avalanche Bridge Opesn On I-90 In Snoqualmie Pass – KREM2 – A new avalanche bridge on Washington’s Snoqualimie Pass opened this week.
- British Mountaineer Claims To Be First Quadruple Amputee To Conquer Switzerland’s Matterhorn – TheSun.co.uk – Jamie Andrew, 47, just summited the Matterhorn after losing his hands and feed to frostbite 17 years ago.
- Cerro Castillo 2* Succumbs To Weather – Feeride World Qualifier – The Cerro Castillo 2* event was cancelled due to high avalanche danger and wet snowpack.
Did we miss any backcountry news? Tell us in the comments below. Have an awesome week!
