Photo of the Week: SNOWvember 2013

After a great week of skiing…on top of all of the other usual preparations for winter underway…we’re too wiped to say much this week. But the facts are simple… Approximately 12-30″ of progressively cold, fluffy powder fell upon the northern Green Mountains during this past week…with lesser amounts falling in the southern Greens, over the Dacks and into NH, ME and Quebec. Snowline was near or below the base elevations of most ski areas across the North Country. The skiing, in the context of it being only …

Vermont Backcountry Ski Forum – Thurs. 11/14/13 in Rochester, VT

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Photo(s) of the Week: Halloween Turns, Family Style

Had the big orange blob on the weather radar been another 100 miles to our west, we would have had time to continue searching around our crawl space for some spooky monster masks to wear out skiing… But for the sake of staying dry, especially with Lil’ Maiana in tow, we could linger no longer. It turns out that a freak rain shower had us climbing our favorite local mountain with umbrellas in our hands, anyway. But, about half way to the top, the showers passed – …

Photo of the Week: Beautiful October Snow

Old Man Winter paid us a visit again in the Northeast this week, and although he’s not here to stay for the winter quite yet, he did give us a very nice taste of the season ahead. A good 6″+ piled up along the highest elevations of the northern Green Mountains and Adirondacks, with snow sticking down to about 1300′ at sunrise Friday morning. Countless skiers across the region enjoyed their first turns of the season Thursday and Friday, and the skiing should hold up in many …

Photo of the Week: 365 Days Ago

We made our first turns of the season (on snow) on October 8th last year, and another blast of higher-elevation snow lured us out again, on October 12th. And while the fresh snow cover was ultra-thin, and the freshly fallen leaves at lower elevations skied even better, another ski season had arrived.

It wasn’t for another few weeks that skiing became part of daily life, but those first ski adventures were special. Peak foliage was still lingering at the lower elevations. Friends we hadn’t seen since …

Photo of the Week (after some time off): The Itch

With Mother Nature throwing us some truly spectacular late summer weather lately… and with things like picking apples, riding trails, swimming, paddling, harvesting, hiking, long board sessions, garden feasts, trail building, doing wood, helping friends, a few mountain climbs, hanging with family and more apple picking demanding most of our time…updating the website here has taken the back seat to just about everything else lately. Thanks for understanding. Do not despair, however, as the nights have been cool, the first frost has come and gone (has anyone …

Photo of the Week: SNOWvember 2013

After a great week of skiing…on top of all of the other usual preparations for winter underway…we’re too wiped to say much this week. But the facts are simple… Approximately 12-30″ of progressively cold, fluffy powder fell upon the northern Green Mountains during this past week…with lesser amounts falling in the southern Greens, over the Dacks and into NH, ME and Quebec. Snowline was near or below the base elevations of most ski areas across the North Country. The skiing, in the context of it being only …

Photo(s) of the Week: Halloween Turns, Family Style

Had the big orange blob on the weather radar been another 100 miles to our west, we would have had time to continue searching around our crawl space for some spooky monster masks to wear out skiing… But for the sake of staying dry, especially with Lil’ Maiana in tow, we could linger no longer. It turns out that a freak rain shower had us climbing our favorite local mountain with umbrellas in our hands, anyway. But, about half way to the top, the showers passed – …

Photo of the Week: Beautiful October Snow

Old Man Winter paid us a visit again in the Northeast this week, and although he’s not here to stay for the winter quite yet, he did give us a very nice taste of the season ahead. A good 6″+ piled up along the highest elevations of the northern Green Mountains and Adirondacks, with snow sticking down to about 1300′ at sunrise Friday morning. Countless skiers across the region enjoyed their first turns of the season Thursday and Friday, and the skiing should hold up in many …

Photo of the Week: SNOWvember 2013

After a great week of skiing…on top of all of the other usual preparations for winter underway…we’re too wiped to say much this week. But the facts are simple… Approximately 12-30″ of progressively cold, fluffy powder fell upon the northern Green Mountains during this past week…with lesser amounts falling in the southern Greens, over the Dacks and into NH, ME and Quebec. Snowline was near or below the base elevations of most ski areas across the North Country. The skiing, in the context of it being only …

Photo of the Week: 365 Days Ago

We made our first turns of the season (on snow) on October 8th last year, and another blast of higher-elevation snow lured us out again, on October 12th. And while the fresh snow cover was ultra-thin, and the freshly fallen leaves at lower elevations skied even better, another ski season had arrived.

It wasn’t for another few weeks that skiing became part of daily life, but those first ski adventures were special. Peak foliage was still lingering at the lower elevations. Friends we hadn’t seen since …

Photo of the Week (after some time off): The Itch

With Mother Nature throwing us some truly spectacular late summer weather lately… and with things like picking apples, riding trails, swimming, paddling, harvesting, hiking, long board sessions, garden feasts, trail building, doing wood, helping friends, a few mountain climbs, hanging with family and more apple picking demanding most of our time…updating the website here has taken the back seat to just about everything else lately. Thanks for understanding. Do not despair, however, as the nights have been cool, the first frost has come and gone (has anyone …

Photo of the Week: Beautiful October Snow

Old Man Winter paid us a visit again in the Northeast this week, and although he’s not here to stay for the winter quite yet, he did give us a very nice taste of the season ahead. A good 6″+ piled up along the highest elevations of the northern Green Mountains and Adirondacks, with snow sticking down to about 1300′ at sunrise Friday morning. Countless skiers across the region enjoyed their first turns of the season Thursday and Friday, and the skiing should hold up in many …

Photo(s) of the Week: White Mountain Wanderlust

We’ve been feeling a bit of White Mountain Wanderlust lately, thanks in no small part to an incredible run of pleasant spring days that have produced corn-snow conditions on at least some aspects, daily. Over the last several days, especially, temperatures have been cool enough to allow for some re-freezing of the snow pack nightly, but still warm enough to keep the snow soft underfoot right through the sunset hour. It has also been nice enough for us to get up high along NH’s Presidential Divide with …

Photo(&Vid) of the Week: Descending Katahdin’s Chimney

It’s not often that the steep, alpine gulley known as the Chimney on Maine’s Mt. Katahdin becomes skiable. Dropping over 1500′ from Katahdin’s Knife Edge Ridge, the remote Chimney is known more as a ice- and rock-strewn alpine climb (Class 4/ NE II) than it is as a ski line. Yet, this past week, a group of four Northeastern skiers and riders sensed that the Chimney might be willing to let them sample its goods – and they were right. Collectively, the group claims to have completed …