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You might have heard the name Oakley White-Allen here and there, with a random impressive finish in a competition, or a shot in a magazine or on film. But for the most part he’s been under the radar. Until recently, that is. Heading into the big mountain comp scene full bore last season, he came up with some impressive results and scored one of the very coveted invites to last month’s Swatch Skier’s Cup at Valle Nevado in Chile, where he scored 20 percent of the team’s points—not bad for an off the radar athlete. He took some time to tell us what he’s been up to and why we’ll probably be seeing his name a lot more in the near future.
No one seems to really know if you are Canadian or American. What’s the story?
I grew up in Maine, but was born and skied mostly in Vermont. At 21, I moved west to Whistler, following the legend of BC powder and a chance to ski along side some of the worlds best. I lived there for seven years, and chose to return home to the US in 2007. Salt Lake City...
This time it's personal.
Valley Medical Center in Twin Falls, according to the hospital.
Rita Chretien, 56, has been discharged from St. Luke's Magic
Valley Medical Center in Twin Falls, according to the
hospital.
survival ordeal in the northern Nevada wilderness, her doctors at a
Twin Falls hospital said Monday.
BAKER CITY, Oregon -- Authorities from Idaho, Oregon and Canada are searching for Albert and Rita Chretien.
The couple left their home in Penticton, British Columbia, for a road trip to trade show in Las Vegas, but never showed up.
The road trip from British Columbia to Nevada is one the Chretiens have made before.
According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, they planned to return to last week but when they didn't come home, a missing persons report was filed and police immediately launched an investigation.
It was recently discovered that the Chretiens had stopped at a Baker City, Oregon gas station nearly two weeks ago.
Police released surveillance video of the couple loading up on food and gas on the afternoon of March 19th.
"What this does for us for this investigation is it narrows down our area that we can start looking at, determining if it's feasible to do physical searches," Corporal Dan Moskaluk of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in British Columbia, Canada said on Sunday.
On April 3, Baker City Police...
It was one year ago when the curtain fell on the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. In the next 18 months, the curtain will rise on the London games.
Idaho athletes are playing a major role in the bi-yearly event that brings the world together. It's a trend that is not likely to change any time soon.
Idaho's golden girl Kristin Armstrong became a household name around the state with her Olympic championship in China in 2008. She retired shortly after, but last year, following the birth of her first baby, Lucas, she would soon be back on the bike training for a comeback...
"As my husband keeps imagining and visualizing me and my baby on the podium and if my 2-year-old is on the podium with me it will make everything worth it," said Armstrong.
And, so its "on" for this mom, who proudly displays her gold medal bike at their new north Boise home. And who came out of retirement to make a run at a third Olympic games.
London is also in the sights for Boise's Nick Symmonds. The former Bishop Kelly speedster is the reigning...
It's been a dry couple of days in a lot of places. Colorado, California, and Wyoming have been sunny and snow free. But, up in America's hat, it's been dumping. Whistler Blackcomb has seen nearly three feet of snow in the past 72 hours. The crew at Dendrite Studios thought that was worth filming. Here's what they skied.
US Ecology had announced the deal was in the works in August. The company is still in talks with Siemens, said Jeff Feeler, vice president of US Ecology, Feb 8.
But “there can be [...]
BOISE -- National Signing Day is creating a buzz among college football fans.
So far, three Treasure Valley students have decided they will stay home and play football at Boise State.
Dillon Lukehart of Eagle High School and Corey Bell of Capital High School each officially signed to play with the Broncos.
Lukehart will be defending the Broncos as a linebacker.
Bell will also be playing defense.
Dallas Burroughs of Rocky Mountain High School also signed a letter of intent today.
He will be joining his brother, Mitch Burroughs, who is currently a wide receiver for the Broncos.
National Signing Day is the first day high school football players can officially commit to a college team.
Boise State Football Head Coach Chris Petersen announced the signing of 19 student-athletes to National Letters of Intent Wednesday, headlined by 18 highly-accomplished high school seniors and an All-American junior college transfer.
In addition to landing three prep standouts from the Gem State, the Broncos’ class...
This week, some of the best photographers in the ski world are in Whistler, B.C. for the Arc'teryx Deep Winter Challenge, a three-day-long photo contest. Jordan Manley has won, and been crowned "King of Storms," three out of the four times it's been held, but this year he's not competing, which opens up the field for this year's photographer, including Blake Jorgenson, Ilja Herb, and the first female competitor ever, Robin O'Neill.
Here is Manley's winning 2009 slide show; this year's entries should be just as impressive.
One of the main bodies that issues certifications for sustainable seafood, the Marine Stewardship Council, is potentially doing more harm than good, according to Greenpeace. Mat's written about the skepticism of MSC before—he called it the sustainable seafood smackdown. But Greenpeace is joining in, saying customers are being "duped."... Read the full story on TreeHugger
Check out video from last year’s Revelstoke event, and check back for updates on this year’s comp. Fresh snow, and a stacked field should make for an exciting weekend. You can follow the even live, starting today at 12 p.m. MST on the FWT website.
At least one Idahoan is grateful for the snowstorm that recently blasted the East Coast.
Ketchum's Morgan Arritola is among the nation's best nordic skiers, many of whom are making their way to Rumford, Maine, for the U.S. Short-Course Cross Country Championships, where they'll be greeted by a massive stockpile of snow.…
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by Joseph Romm.
Climatopolis by Matthew Kahn has a deeply flawed main
thesis, captured in its subtitle, “How Our Cities Will Thrive in the
Hotter Future.” On page after page you will find assertions that are
dubious, unsubstantiated, or just plain wrong. Also, the book does not
appear to have been well-edited. Indeed, it contains at least one
(repeated) glaring quantitative error that is so egregious it is very
puzzling how it could have persisted to the final version.
But most importantly, the author just doesn’t know what he’s talking about because he hasn’t done his homework. It bugs me that so many economists—in a discipline notorious for leaping
all over non-economists who write on economic matters without doing
their homework—write so much about climate change without reading the
extensive climate science literature or talking to leading climate
scientists.
Readers know I already debunked the book’s central thesis. So why am I doing another piece?
Well, the author sent me an email titled “Brad Delong’s question...
by James Hansen.
The paperback version of my book Storms of My Grandchildren: The Truth About the Coming Climate Catastrophe and Our last Chance to Save Humanity is now available. It includes, as an added section, a conversation between organizer Bill McKibben and me. Much of that Q&A is below. As was (and is) the case with the hardback and other formats of the book, all royalties go to 350.org. As I mention in the book, 350.org has demonstrated the most effective and responsible leadership in the public struggle for climate justice.
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Bill McKibben: Jim, more than a dozen nations have set new high-temperature records this year, and we’ve seen the all-time marks set for Asia (Pakistan at 129 degrees Fahrenheit) and Southeast Asia. Given that the global temperature has “only” gone up about a degree, can you explain how this kind of heat is possible?
James Hansen: Sure. What we see happening with new record temperatures, both warm and cold, is in good agreement with what we predicted in the 1980s when I testified...
The racing season kicked off for me in the last two weeks. The first weekend we raced in Silver Star British Columbia. I have now been there a handful of times and it never gets old! There is always an abundant amount of snow, good ski conditions, and the beauty of being able to step out of the front door to ski. The first race began with a classic sprint. I felt a bit slow off the line but was able to post a decent time to qualify in the middle of the pack with a 13th place finish....
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by Agence France-Presse.
MEXICO CITY—Mayors from around the world signed a
voluntary pact Sunday in Mexico City to reduce greenhouse gas emissions at a
meeting meant as a precursor to U.N.-sponsored climate talks in Cancun opening
next week.
The gathering in one of the world’s most polluted cities assembled
thousands of local and regional leaders to discuss a wide range of economic
and social issues, including climate change.
Participants from some 135 cities and urban areas—including Buenos
Aires, Bogota, Johannesburg, Los Angeles, Paris, and Vancouver—signed the
pact, which states their intention to adopt a slate of measures to stem
climate
change.
Each city “will have to register its climate data [commitments as well as
performance] in the city climate record” during the next eight months, said
Gabriel Sanchez, president of Think Foundation, a Mexican nonprofit.
Residents will be able to track their cities’ performance online,
officials
said.
The pact will be presented at U.N. talks in the Mexican resort of Cancun
from
Nov. 2...
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The flights, using 44-seat Embraer ERJ-140 jets, will depart from Boise at 10:25 am and 3:25 pm every day, arriving in LA at 11:40 am and 4:40 pm, respectively. The flights [...]
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by Elly Blue.
Last month, a young woman was jogging along the popular new
Katy Trail in Dallas, Tex., wearing headphones. She turned left and was struck
by a woman on a bicycle. The jogger’s head hit the pavement.
Several days later, she
died.
The Katy Trail is not a trail in the woods, but a multi-use
path, or, in planning-speak, a “MUP.” These paved byways are varyingly
called trails, paths, rail trails, bike trails, or linear parks. The mix of
terminology reflects the current confusion about what exactly they are for.
The original concept is that of the linear park—a destination
in the city or suburbs where locals of all ages can go get fresh air and
exercise in a natural setting. Mellow recreation was the idea. The bicycle has
always been part of this mix. But MUPs aren’t always simply about recreation. The
use of these paths as transportation corridors, rather than parks, is being
pushed increasingly at a local level, and even promoted by the feds, including
in a
recent interview with U.S. Department of Transportation...
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by Jonathan Hiskes.
For all the
hand-wringing about America’s waning influence around the world, it still
wields a lot of influence around the world (profound, huh?). The forms of 21st-century
living pioneered here aren’t just about fixing the U.S., they’re about
providing models that other countries can emulate.
That’s why the Seattle
Project aims to make the city of 600,000 the world’s first carbon-neutral
city by 2030; it’s why Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson wants to make his city the world’s greenest (Canada is influential too); it’s why
it’s so important that California’s clean-energy leadership role survives
Tuesday’s election.
Much of this global influence
happens organically, but sometimes it’s deliberate, as with a
new plan for Oregon State University to share green engineering expertise
with Iraqi universities. Iraqi professors will study at OSU’s sustainable
engineering program in Corvallis, and Oregon professors and students will teach
engineering, forestry, and agricultural science at several Iraqi universities,...
by Jonathan Hiskes.
Biodiversity doesn’t get
as much attention as it should now that climate change has become preeminent among
environmental quandaries. But it’s important! Species extinction isn’t some
boutique issue that’s distinct from the needs of humans. And building
successful human dwellings isn’t disconnected from providing natural areas, as
a delegation of international mayors said at Convention on Biological Diversity
in Nagoya, Japan, this week. From
Reuters:
While green groups at a U.N. environment meeting in Japan
focused on the need to save rainforests and oceans, mayors at the talks said
conserving nature in cities was equally vital.
“We must work on two levels. First, the preservation
of ecosystems but also the integration of biodiversity in the city and in all
policies,” Evelyne Huytebroeck, the Brussels’ region minister for
environment, told a news conference.
“Biodiversity must be seen as part of the solution for
the city, for sustainable urban planning, not as a problem.”
... U.N. studies during the talks...
by Ashley Braun.
You’ve probably heard that recycling can help you “save the planet,” but did you know that it could also save your life? This past summer, two teens from Vancouver, Canada, fell almost seven stories from their apartment building roof after a wooden structure gave way—and so did they.
Fortunately, they were saved from a very negative impact by landing on a pile of recyclables put out by a neighbor who was trying to have a positive impact. Considering the 18 year-old young woman and man escaped with only a few bruises and a broken leg, I’m assuming they didn’t land on the glass recycling bin.
So, kids, the moral of the story is this: Never let anyone tell you recycling is a waste of time; it could actually be a real life-saver.
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Vancouver-based psych rock band Black Mountain has gotten the FMB treatment before, but their latest album is so monstrously, mind-blowingly good they’ve earned a second go-round.
It’s called Wilderness Heart, and not only is it a strong contender for album of the year, as you can see over to the side it may be album art of the year as well. To me it captures what was best about early-‘70s rock, the Zeppelin-y stomp, long-haired grandeur, and woozy drugginess. Matters are immensely improved by the presence of Amber Webber, the bewitching girl singer who sounds like early Grace Slick .
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Lin Laughy and his wife Borg Hendrickson are at the end of the grid, which prompted Laughy to drive along U.S. Highway 12 to see if the nearby town of Kooskia still had power. On that drive, he had an encounter that brought home to him the threat of mega-trucks blocking travel both ways on the scenic byway. Soon, the couple became the epicenter of a people's campaign that has spread throughout the region and beyond. The objective of the campaign is to save one of America's most beautiful roads from heavy industrial traffic that they see as certain to tarnish, if not destroy, its fame as a gateway to wild and scenic recreation.
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Looking around the room, a number of ski industry heavy-hitters were listening and chiming in: Matt Swanson, sports marketing manager for Oakley; Tim Windell, former pro snowboarder and founder of Windells Academy; Steele Spence, former X Games competitor and current AFP judge; Jen Hudak, five-time X Games medalist in halfpipe skiing. So, when Haney made a controversial statement about the biggest athletic stage in the world, people had a lot to say.
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BOISE -- Three Canadians on an international charity bike ride ran into an unexpected problem -- their bikes were stolen during a weekend pit stop in Boise.
Now they might have to use money they’ve raised to buy new bikes and get back on the road.
The men were supposed to leave Boise Sunday morning. But without their bikes, they won't be able to leave anytime soon.
Erik Johnson, Jordie Landolt and Edward Vaughn had their long journey mapped out.
From Victoria, British Columbia, they would ride to New Orleans and deliver money they raised to a local food bank.
The young men also wanted to study the impact of the Gulf Coast oil spill.
Discussions about a proposed pipeline in B.C. concern them, and they want to see the fallout in the Gulf with their own eyes.
"We decided that we wanted to go down to Lousiana, talk with the people, do some volunteering and really see what the repurcussions are of a natural - a disaster like an oil spill," said Edward Vaughn, one of the bikers.
One of their stops along the way was...
Charles Pitcher had been serving as CEO and president of Western Canadian Coal. He joins United Mining Group, based in Vancouver, B.C., at a time of intense growth and exploration in Idaho’s silver region, one of [...]
