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March 22, 2006
National Geographic Returns to Chernobyl
If you've found the Ghost Town/Kid of Speed entry on my links page, you may have guessed I'm fascinated with Chernobyl, site of the world's worst nuclear accident. In the April (more)
March 11, 2006
Flirting with the Girly Man
A very chilly storm is working its way down California, with reports of snow falling in the metro Bay Area and Kirkwood skiers claiming the 'best snow ever'. Down South, Mount (more)
March 7, 2006
Sue Burak: ‘Nervous’
If you haven't been following Avy forecaster Sue Burak's updates on the Eastern Sierra Avalanche Center website, now might be a good time to pay attention. The Sierra has been (more)
March 5, 2006
A Mammoth Blizzard
Snow, snow, and more snow. It was one of those days at Mammoth where you needed a shovel to dig yourself out. Friday the snow was coming down so hard the air could actually (more)
February 28, 2006
Okay, it Rained—a Lot
Word from Mount Baldy is that the ski area received a staggering 8-10 inches of rain. A little colder, and that one storm could have turned the season around down here in the San (more)
February 19, 2006
Tuttle Creek Shakedown
I've been trying to think of a good motto for this website, and one of my ideas, which seems especially apt right now, is "We make the mistakes so you don't have to." My trip (more)
February 6, 2006
Telluride Powder
We'd been waiting a long time for a day like this: a foot of fresh snow overnight and it just kept on dumping. The air was alive with snow all day. Here, my brother Yuri Lewicky (more)
January 9, 2006
A 10,000′ Ski Descent?
Finally made the pilgrimage to Mammoth this past weekend. Coverage was spectacular—Mammoth Mountain is claiming they've currently got the deepest base of any U.S. (more)
December 15, 2005
ESAC: The Eastern Sierra Avalanche Center
If you've been paying attention, you may have noticed that avalanche information is conspicuously absent on SierraDescents.com's pages. This is certainly not because I don't take (more)
December 7, 2005
A Look Ahead
The Sierra Ski Season is off to a less-than-outstanding start, with generally minimal snowfall thus far, and some nasty instability setting up due to shallow coverage. While (more)
