Billowing evergreens silhouetted against the soft glow from layers of freshly acquired snow crystals is a panorama often anticipated by skiers when embarking upon their adventure. However, each year in Bellevue, Idaho, such opulent scenery is traded for the hind view of a four-legged stead. The sport is dubbed “ski-joring” and incorporates two teammates: one [...]
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Air borne with nothing but snow and an 8,000 foot decent to the valley below, ski and boarding competitors practice jumps, grabs, kicks and spins as they get ready for Pomerelle’s Big Trick Competition, Saturday, February 11, 2012. Dealing with up to 7 feet of snow fall, grooming crews faced one of its biggest challenges [...]
If our past can tie us down it can also free us. Keith Adams (59 years old) is living proof. Professional Trial Bike competitor, educator and avid outdoors man, Adams uses his past to inspire the future of those around him. Using the power of sports and the great outdoors of Southern Idaho Adams freed [...]
For skiers and snowboarders, oh the anguish of soul October brings! The sweet taste of cool brisk air causes an immediate longing to ride, but you look toward the mountains for snow and – nothing. You feel the urge to shred, but snow is yet to fall. It’s the skiing/boarding blues. Idaho Water Sports in [...]
Sure, he catches big air and can perform full 360-degree back flips. When you find out Biff Hutchison is on a pogo stick things get interesting. Hutchison, an otherwise typical 16-year-old Burley High School junior, started riding years ago. Like many children before him, Hutchison quickly out-grew his first pogo stick – you know the [...]
Freeskiing phenom Tyler Shockey finished last season ranked 18th nationally in slopestyle for his age group (16-19) by the USASA – the country’s premier amateur ski and snowboard association. What makes this feat most remarkable is that Shockey is from Burley – not exactly a mecca for slopestylers. The nearest ski resort with adequate terrain [...]
A rush of cool air whipped through the airplane as Paul Janes opened the door. Ten thousand feet below, the city of Buhl seemed small intertwined with the patchwork quilt of the earth’s surface. The Snake River Canyon cut through an inspiring masterpiece of geometric shapes cast in green, brown, yellow and beige. Southern Idaho [...]
For the past nine years, the Wake in the Snake wakeboard competition in Burley has been the favorite for both riders and spectators. On Saturday, July 14th, the local wake world will converge again on the Burley Golf Course Marina for what promises to be off the hook! Idaho Water Sports will once again put [...]
A Conversation with Champion Racecar Driver Bobby Latham III As told to Southern Idaho Magazine There’s no other smell like race day. If you’ve never smelled burning race fuel, it’s a smell that definitely wakes you up and gets you excited. It gets my adrenaline pumping. It’s intense. I love the sounds of race day. [...]
