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!
- Watch Trailer For Monumental: Skiing Our National Parks – A Mountain Journey – Who’s excited about this ski mountaineering film focused on skiing in national parks? We are.
- Big Sky Resort Plans To Invest $150 Million Over Next Decade – A Mountain Journey – Over the next decade, Big Sky Resort will invest $150 million into the resort. Roughly $1 billion will be invested into the community via their development partners.
- Czech Tramper Spends Month Alone In New Zealand Backcountry Hut After Boyfriend’s Fatal Fall – A Mountain Journey – After her partner suffered a fatal fall on the Routeburn Track, Pavlina Pizova hunkered down in the remote Lake Mackenzie DOC hut for a month.
- Personal Trainer From Gold Hill Sets Record With 57 Fourteeners In 32 Days, Eight Hours – DenverPost.com – Joe Grant rode his bike from Gold Hill to every 14er in Colorado, climbed the peaks, and rode home. New record. Congrats.
- Nick Elson Sets New Grand Traverse Speed Record In The Tetons – A Mountain Journey – Congrats to Nick Elson who just completed the Grand Traverse in GTNP in 6 hours 30 minutes – beating a 16-year-old record.
- Two Russian Mountaineers Killed In Avalanche On Peak Somoni In Tajikistan – A Mountain Journey – A tragic avalanche on Peak Somoni killed two mountaineers as they ascended Tajikistan’s highest summit.
- Falling Glacier Kills Three Women Taking Selfie Near Saiful Muluk Lake In Pakistan – A Mountain Journey – A glacier fell while three woman were taking a selfie, killing them all.
- Heavy Snow CLOSES US-212 Beartooth Pass In Montana – SnowBrains – Montana DOT closed Beartooth Pass this week due to heavy snow – in August.
- Woman Falls And Dies At Grand Canyon Of The Yellowstone – BozemanDailyChronicle.com – A tragic accident in YNP.
- Amtrak Winter Park Express Ski Train Returns For 2016-2017 – OpenSnow.com – The ski train to Winter Park is back!
- Watch South Lines Episode 4 with Adria Millan and Aymar Navarro – A Mountain Journey – The South Line crew is back and this time they’re skiing awesome couloirs.
- Mountain Bike Pedal Causes Wildfire – TetonGravity.com – A 122-acre fire in the eastern Sierra Nevada was started by bike pedal hitting a rock.
- Dolomites Come Apart At Seams In Massive Rockfall – Adventure-Journal.com – A mountainside collapsed in the Italian Dolomites. Approximately 700,000 cubic meters of rock and debris fell from Piccola Croda Rossa.
- Obama Names Maine’s Katahdin Woods As Newest National Park Site – CNN – Maine’s Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument is the newest 87,000 acre national park monument in the US. Cool!
- The Official Bird Of Mount Everest Seems To Be A Helicopter – Adventure-Journal.com – Over 150 helicopter flights were conducted on Everest last spring.
- Happy Birthday, National Park Service, Ya Big Hot Mess – Adventure Journal – The NPS turned 100 this week. This wonderful government agency is unfortunately plagued by many problems.
- Sign Up To Win A Grayl Ultralight Purifier – A Mountain Journey – There are lots of ways to enter this contest. Enter today and you could win a Grayl Ultralight. Contest ends on 8/31.
Did we miss any mountain news? Tell us in the comments below. Have an awesome week!
