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#alberta

Oil prices have surged by more than 50 per cent since the conflict in the Middle East began in late February. West Texas Intermediate (WTI), the North American benchmark crude, was trading for more than $116 US per barrel on Tuesday morning.

Enzo attempted a double front flip at Alaska's Hilltop Ski Area. He comes pretty close to landing it, nearly getting his skis all the way around, but he just didn't quite get it.

The Blue Book is built around accessibility and practicality for producers managing multiple products and tight timelines. It pulls key information from product labels—such as rainfastness, re-entry intervals, and mixing instructions—and presents it in a more usable format, almost like taking the label and shrinking it into a couple of pages so that it's easy to read.

The storm from Tuesday morning through Thursday evening is expected to deliver significant snowfall, particularly in the Banff corridor and Kicking Horse, with Sunshine and Lake Louise receiving 30-40 cm of snow.

Avalanche Canada currently rates the danger as 'Extreme,' or the highest level of danger. People are encouraged to stay out of the backcountry and prepare for road closures if crews deem additional control work necessary.

The first wave is underway Friday and stays most productive through Saturday for the Alberta Rockies, with guidance tightly clustered on onset timing but looser on how far west the better snowfall bands reach.

We are proud to announce that we will be writing the eighth and final chapter of the epic, ten year Snowboy x Sunshine Village collaboration with Dusk of The Village. Banff Sunshine describes the event as both a celebration of snowboarding and a showcase of community, with riders invited to test the course alongside some of the strongest freestyle talent in Western Canada.

Travelers to Alaska have a lot of ground to cover; the state holds 665,000 square miles of land that includes volcanic islands, Arctic tundra, glaciers, and temperate rainforest. Yet in winter, some of the state's most compelling scenery can be experienced in a week aboard the Alaska Railroad. The railroad's weeklong Aurora Winter Train "showcases the best of winter in Alaska," including easy access via Anchorage, a sled dog tour with an Iditarod champion,

I was five years old when I had my first encounter with a black bear. In the spring of 1990, my father, a wildlife biologist, brought home an orphaned three-month-old cub in a cardboard box. The cub's mother, having burrowed beneath the roots of an old tree, had been killed in the den by a logging excavator, but the cub, weighing barely more than a bag of apples, survived. Forestry workers caught the young bear and dropped it off at the Fish and Wildlife office in Peace River, Alberta, where my dad worked, and he called my mom with the news.

About fifteen kilometres northwest from Kitamaat is Kitimat, the industrial town that the global mining group Alcan (acquired by Rio Tinto in 2007) carved from the rainforest in the 1950s to house workers and support the needs of its aluminum smelter.

Colorado's ski history is deep and rich. It includes the oldest ski area in the United States, predating anything on the East Coast or West, and includes the story of the 10th Mountain Division.

If you've never driven into Banff, it's a sensory overload. Razor-edged peaks reminiscent of the Italian Dolomites, glacier-carved valleys that echo Yosemite, and a constant play of light and shadow that shifts with every bend in the road. Photos don't do it justice.

Conditions delivered a glimpse of for what Fernie is known. Soft snow lingered across much of the mountain, especially on shaded aspects and in the trees, where cold temperatures preserved quality turns and wind pushed snow into healthy pockets. Visibility fluctuated at times, but when the clouds lifted, the terrain revealed itself in layers-bowls feeding into glades, ridgelines spilling into natural halfpipes, and sustained fall lines that can keep a rider's legs burning.

Alaska is known for its epic backcountry skiing and snowboarding, with huge lines accessible by touring, snowmobile, and helicopter, but its ski resorts have plenty of gnarly terrain to offer as well. The state's biggest resorts are quite a bit smaller than many of those in the United States, but they make up for it with great snow, incredible views, and killer lines. These are Alaska's 5 largest ski resorts.

Many of us are riding the high of the recent major snowstorm wondering when the next big powder day will swing through. Unfortunately for most of North America, it looks like the snowy weather won't be returning anytime soon, or at least not for the next week. Meteorologist Chris Tomer 's Mountain Weather Update paints a rather sad picture for snowfall totals in North America between January 29th and February 5th.