It’s after dark on the eve of Thanks Giving, and I am staring into a blackened screen speckled with illuminated white streaks. It’s snowing! A few days ago, these webcams in Mammoth were showing ...

If you are chasing northern hemisphere powder this season you want to have the right ski for when the snow gets epic – something fat and rockered that floats like a boat through the deepest snow.

Cotopaxi poking through the clouds on a frosty morning at Anitsana base camp. Unfortunately, conditions didn’t look promising for a ski descent of Cotopaxi, so we didn’t make an attempt. A week later ...

While summer snowfalls in Australian generated a bit of novelty value early this week, the real action is in the Northern Hemisphere, as it should be at this time of year with significant snowfalls in ...

At a time of year when 46 million turkeys will be put to the sword and served up on American tables, we’re not only salivating at the thought of tucking into a Thanksgiving feast, we’re also drooling ...

Black Friday cyber-sales, American Thanksgiving, 35º plus weather in south-east Australia; Yep, all signs point to the beginning of the 2015/2016 winter season. This year, talk of El Nino has ...

The Mountainwatch.com team is as passionate and dedicated about the mountains as you are. Skiing to snowboarding, hiking to biking, everything about those huge piles of dirt and rock keep our blood ...

Chris Benchetler is one of skiing’s most creative individuals, both on and off the mountain, and this beautiful short film is a study of his progression as a skier, an artist and a father. Filmed in ...

“The train came out of the long tunnel into the snow country.” This is the opening line of one of Japan’s most famous literary works, Snow Country, by Yasunari Kawabata and the snow country of which ...