Pedal Powered Skiing

Sometimes, instead of driving to the ski hill, we drop our ski packs into our BOB trailers, hop onto our bikes and pedal no more than an hour before beginning a beautiful day of skiing in our local mountains… It makes a great day of skiing truly world class, and it has made us excited [...]

Written on October 28, 2009 | Posted in Northeast | No comment

Adirondack Backcountry Ski Festival

Are you interested in connecting with the folks that know skiing in Adirondacks best? Don’t miss this year’s 8th Annual Adirondack Backcountry Ski Festival, scheduled for early March, in New York’s Keene Valley. This annual event, organized by friendly folks at The Mountaineer in Keene, NY and their friends at Cloudsplitter Guides, is [...]

Written on October 25, 2009 | Posted in Events, Fresh Tracks | No comment

Junkboarding Gets Some Press

Here’s a great story about our friend Dave Bouchard and “junkboarding” – the act of skiing on skis cut from a junked snowboard – that was recently published in Vermont’s Seven Days newspaper and was penned by Kirk Kardashian. LINK

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Written on October 17, 2009 | Posted in Backcountry News, Skills | No comment

Amazing skiing footage from the 1926 Der heilige Berg (“The Holy Mountain”)

Clip from “The Holy Mountain”, German silent film starring Leni Riefenstahl and Luis Trenker, directed by Arnold Fanck. Camera work and montage editing is very advanced for the time.
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Written on October 16, 2009 | Posted in Videos | No comment

More on New Englander Dave Watson’s K2 Descent

Thanks to Adam Howard at Backcountry Magazine for this story about Watson’s skiing adventure on K2 this past summer…LINK

This is a photo of K2’s north face and a route followed by the 1953 American Karakoram Expedition.

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Written on October 1, 2009 | Posted in Asia, Backcountry News, Stoke | No comment