Skiing in the Rain Appeases the Weather Gods
Monday only reinforced our belief that skiing in the rain appeases the weather gods. What started as a potentially sopping wet ski tour gradually developed into a fine late-afternoon of fresh tracks and floating flakes. And this time we weren’t in the southern Andes – where a 2-foot snowfall once commenced just [...]
Photo of the Week: Marvelous Maine!
Maine’s got a lot going for it, with its rugged and beautiful coastline, an abundance of fresh water lakes and rivers, and some of the world’s tastiest lobsters. It’s also home to some truly spectacular skiing, but getting to lines like this one requires a bit more effort than showing up to your local ski [...]
Ski It While You Can: Creek Skiing – Part 2
Here’s another take on “creek skiing” here in the northeast, from just a few day’s back – and most likely the last time we could have skied this gem of a ski line this season…until it dumps, that is. The snow surface was nearly perfect corn. The sound of running water filled the air. [...]
Creek Skiing Craziness!
The beds of natural streams and creeks coursing down our northeastern mountainsides are some of our favorite lines to ski, especially when Old Man Winter buries them deeply in snow…
We’d like to share with you photo essay that we put together for Vermont Life on this unique approach to skiing our northeastern mountains. Click HERE [...]
Vermonter Lars Chickering-Ayers Wins Freeskiing Worlds
Vermonter and lifelong Mad River Glen skier Lars Chickering-Ayers took first place at the podium this past weekend at the Freeskiing World Championships at Snowbird, UT. You can view the results HERE. This win comes just a couple of weeks after another Vermonter and Mad River Glen-raised skier, Dylan Crossman – a close friend [...]
Photo of the Week: Happy Spring!
Although Friday was officially the last full day of the winter season in the northern hemisphere, it seems as though spring has been having its way with us for nearly two weeks now here in the northeast: flowers are starting to bloom, we are cutting spinach again from our garden (it wintered over in our [...]
Skiing on Water
When Vermonter Jason Starr revealed his “surf skis” to the world in 2009, he opened the doors to an entirely new realm of skiing adventure. Throughout 2010, a growing community of passionate skiers with a strong connection to the water are taking Starr’s surf-skis to the rolling waves of our nearby oceans. Some are [...]
Don’t Miss “Off Piste in Iceland” – Thurs 4/1
Don’t miss our next slideshow, Off Piste in Iceland, coming up on Thursday, April 1 at the legendary Inn at Long Trail along Rt. 4 near Killington, VT. Owners Murray and Patty McGrath have hosted a few of our shows in the past, and we are excited to be back there once again this season. [...]
SNOW!
Several mountain areas across the northeast picked up 5-15″+ of fresh snow Sunday night and Monday (3/15). (The higher peaks of New York’s Adirondacks and New Hampshire’s White Mountains made out best.) In the higher ravines of New Hampshire’s Mount Washington area, the avalanche danger has been upgraded to considerable and high, due to [...]
Great Video: Pillow Line
Here’s a very creative and interesting video by British Columbia-based photographer, Kari Medig, who describes his video as follows:
“Here’s a show I put together for the 2010 Coldsmoke photo competition that happens every year here in Nelson BC. It was inspired by an amazing stop motion concept and technique used by Tel Aviv based [...]
Photo of the Week: March Dreams
As terrific as the spring-like, corn snow skiing is right now here in the northeast, it has been hard not to dream of powder days like this one…during the incredible St. Patty’s storm of March 2007.
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3rd Annual Catamount Trail Challenge
Coming up this Sunday, March 14, 2010, Vermont’s Catamount Trail Association will host its 3rd Annual Catamount Trail Challenge – a backcountry ski tour (for those who’d prefer a more leisurely tour) and race (for those who’d like to race). The event is open to all levels of skiers interested in skiing one of [...]
PHOTOS of the WEEK
