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2018 Season Recap

By | Powder News

2018 turned out to be a fantastic heli-ski and ski touring season in Greenland!  The storms kept driving in from the Davis straight and pounding the Southwest coast of Greenland and our arctic paradise. We were fortunate to have really fun ski groups from Canada, Europe, and US. Due to the amount of Polar Powder we received and good stability, we were able to access lines that we have never skied before. The steep couloirs were in great condition and added a huge element of excitement to our season. Here is a shot of one of the amazing couloirs we…

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Nov 04
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Ski Hall of Fame Pete Patterson

Sun Valley Ski Hall of Fame Honors Pete Patterson

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Pete Patterson was born in 1957 in Sun Valley, living at the bottom of Warm Springs long before the lifts were installed. He made the U.S. Ski Team at age 17, and spent the next eight years representing the country in international competition. A two-time Olympian, Patterson placed 13th in the 1976 Innsbruck downhill at age 19 and a historic fifth in the 1980 Olympic downhill in Lake Placid, at that time the best-ever U.S. men's finish in that event. Two years earlier, he earned the only U.S. medal in the 1978 World Championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, taking bronze in...
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Nov 04
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Pete Patterson Greenland

U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame and Museum

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Peter Patterson was a junior racer with the Sun Valley Ski Club in 1973 but competed at the 1974 junior nationals in cross country. Still, he settled on alpine racing making the 1975 Can Am team and the 1976 U.S. Olympic Team in Innsbruck where he finished 14th in the downhill. He was second in the giant slalom at the U.S. national championships and then accumulated several race victories including a first in the slalom at the Kandahar of the Andes. He was awarded a bronze medal in the combined at the 1978 World Championships. A two time Olympian he...
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Nov 04
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Greenland | The Big One

Ski the Top of the World

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Skiing Greenland Diana Kapp/Wall Street Journal I’M ON AN icebreaker ship traveling slowly up a finger of the Eternity Fjord on Greenland’s west coast. We are a few miles from the edge of the ice sheet, a solid blanket of ice three times the size of Texas that covers about 80% of the country. All around us, peaks coated in virgin, polar snow seem to rise directly out of the vivid blue water. I’ve got my skis. A helicopter is waiting. Whale sightings are promised. The scenario is so fantastical, I may as well have fallen into a Dr. Seuss…

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