Some footage of the Red Bull Blade Raid that took place recently at Crystal Mountain.

Via Backcountry.com

You know, some things just leave you speechless with admiration, and this is one of those things:

This via the blog at backcountry.com.

As we reported, Julia Mancuso and Chemmy Alcott are auctioning off much of their gear from this season to help raise $40,000 for charity.

Make sure that you head over to Julia's site to grab yourself a piece of skiing history and help make a difference.

This via the backcountry.com blog:

Ski Utah along with the Winter at Westminster program is about to finish up a contest they are sponsoring with the Addictionary.

Addictionary is an interactive dictionary where you can add "werds" (that's what they call them) with meanings that you come up with.

This werd contest's goal is to come up with the best "werd" to describe skiing and snowboarding. See, the trouble is whenever you are writing or talking about the act of sliding on snow it requires 3 words. More is not always better and in this case having one word to cover both worlds of sliding on snow would be ideal.

Today (March 5th) is the last day of the contest to name the best word for Skiing and Snowboarding. If you come up with the winning "werd" you'll win a trip for two to ski in Utah next month.

So if you've got a "werd" that you use to describe sliding on snow it could land you in Utah next month to ski the greatest snow on earth.

Head over to http://addictionary.org/Browse/ContestWords/19 to enter your "werd"!

OK, so what do you do when it's too cold to go wakeboarding? Go wakeboarding in the snow, of course!

Not known for being mountainous (OK, it's not even hilly!), North Dakota is not allowing it's lack of vertical challenges to get in the way of snowboarding fun.

SnowKiting is taking off (if you'll excuse the pun) - quite literally, as you can see from this video:

In celebration of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, the Royal Canadian Mint has released new 25c coins featuring the sport of snowboarding.

OK, don't try this unless you want to get yourself fired...

Check out this video of Julia Mancuso hanging on in the downhill as her skis catch some soft snow and nearly flip her upside down. Way to go Julia!

Check out this video of wintertime adrenaline in Rocky Mountain National Park, brought to you by a couple of dudes from Denver, home of all things extreme.