Skiing the Bretton Woods, NH Backcountry
Our friends at FamousInternetSkiers.com have recently posted some nice images from their skiing adventures in the Bretton Woods, NH backcountry. Enjoy! …LINK
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Adventures with Vermonter Dylan Crossman
We caught up with our friend Dylan Crossman a few days ago – not in Vermont, but on our last day in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains, at Alta Ski Area, at the tail end of a nearly 100″ snow cycle. Dylan, who grew up skiing Vermont’s Mad River Glen, dominated the US Telemark Freeskiing Extremes in [...]
Alta, UT: 90″ (230cm) in 7 Days
Upon leaving Vermont last Tuesday to work on a few projects in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains, we have witnessed Old Man Winter in his very best of moods. We sometimes wonder if Old Man Winter takes note of all those days we have skied in the rain and braved -25F mornings, and if this is his [...]
Gone Wild on the Gaspe
Here’s a snap from a recent trip to Quebec’s Gaspe Peninsula, captured while navigating treeline in the remote and wild southern half of the Monts Chic Chocs – which are also some of the oldest Appalachian Mountains. We spent nearly a week traversing these mountains on a route we could have skied directly in [...]
Wasatch Wanderings
After an incredible streak of skiing fresh tracks in the northeast backcountry, it was time to head west this week to work on a few assignments. Apparently, we have brought our Vermont snow with us! Here are a few quick snaps from our first full day out here in the Wasatch…
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Blue Skies and High Fives
Thanks to Vermont skiers, Rachel Wood and Tyler Cohen, for sharing a few words and images from their skiing adventures in Vermont’s Green Mountains earlier this January….
In Northern Vermont, it’s a rare occurrence to find blue skies and fresh snow in the same day, but we came upon this perfect recipe in early January near [...]
Now that’s a forecast – Part 2
Only this time, it’s not for the northeast… But it’s a good reason to be excited anyhow, as 1) this same snow could be headed our way soon, 2) our good friends in the Wasatch could really use a little snow (you know it’s got to be “rough” for them when the snow stake on [...]
MRG Skier: Silas Chickering-Ayers
Seventeen year old Silas Chickering-Ayers, and his older brother, Lars, are some of the most talented skiers we’ve ever come across. With dad the head of ski patrol at Mad River Glen, and mom a talented skier and athlete, too…it’s not hard to imagine how these brothers ski. Lars has been out west for [...]
MRG/Sugarbush Ski Mountaineering Race
Now in its fourth year, the Mountain Hardwear Ski Mountaineering Race returns to Vermont’s Mad River Valley this Feb. 7, 2010 to challenge backcountry-oriented skiers of all abilities on a beautiful course connecting Mad River Glen and Sugarbush ski areas, via the Long Trail and Slidebrook area. After the “race”, the event organizers [...]
One Powder Day After Another
This image was captured earlier this week in Vermont’s Mad River Valley, after another 2-3″ of snow blew in the night before. Approx. 15-45″ of snow has piled up in the higher elevation backcountry across the north country since Jan 1st. The skier is Ian Forgays, a long-time Mad River Glen shareholder and small business [...]
Avalanches in Vermont
Although relatively uncommon in comparison to the higher peaks of New York’s Adirondacks, New Hampshire’s White Mountains, Maine’s Katahdin and Quebec’s Gaspe, Vermont’s steeper mountainsides are susceptible to life-threatening avalanches. During this past week alone, several reports of small slab and sluff avalanches have come in. Recent winds have loaded steep gulleys and even forested [...]
Rime-coated Forest
The upper elevations across the northern reaches of the northeast are in a truly beautiful state right now. The hardwood forest above 2500′ is especially attractive with its ever-deepening snowpack (15-35″ of fresh along the western slopes of the Green Mountain Divide since last Sat/Sun, and it’s still snowing!), and the birches and beeches [...]
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