Northeastern Skiers on Tour: Dylan Crossman
Our friend Dylan Crossman grew up skiing in Vermont’s Green Mountains and Mad River Glen, and after moving out west to explore his love for skiing, he went on to dominate the competitive telemark (and later the alpine) big-mountain/freeskiing scene – winning the US Telemark Extremes on FIVE times, and in 2008, skiing away with [...]
A Bit of Snow On Its Way… After the Wind…and Turkey
“Damaging Winds” is the current forecast for the summit of New Hampshire’s Mount Washington today and tomorrow. There’s nothing like a 145mph wind gust to start off your day in late November! This cold, northwesterly flow of air comes in advance of another moisture-laden, low-pressure system that should start to drop some frozen precip (snow?) [...]
Photo of the Week: November Powder
Although we’ve been getting by with some seriously thin, yet skiable snow conditions this November (and still to bottom – til yesterday!), it is worth taking a moment to reflect on how great the skiing in November can really be here in the northeast… Here’s a snap from mid November a few year’s back. Enjoy! [...]
AMC Video Promotes Updated Northeast Skiing Guidebook
Vermont-based author David Goodman recently published the latest edition of his popular guidebook backcountry skiing in the northeast. His new book, Best Backcountry Skiing in the Northeast: 50 Classic Ski Tours in New England and New York, was released and published this fall by the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC), and it combines the two volumes [...]
Photo of the Week: Thin Cover is Fun
Maybe it’s because a thin snow pack is all we have to work with sometimes in the northeast. Or perhaps it has to do with those “thin cover” signs we’d come across on the ski hill as kids…and the great fun we’d have leaving the adults behind while we jumped dirt patches and straight-lined large [...]
Gear Giveaway: Winter 10/11 – How Deep?
We all know it can snow a lot in the northeast – and the powder can be absurdly deep – but we rarely go through a winter without a bit of rain and warm weather washing away at least some of the snowy gains we’ve made. Still, the snow can really pile up, and during [...]
Skiing the Greens – Early November 2010
On Monday (11/8), while rain, sleet and freezing rain cancelled schools in the valleys, a thin layer of fresh “snow” in the mountains took the edge off the weekend’s crust at all but the highest elevations.
Backcountry Update – Nov 7: More Snow On Its Way?
After a fun week of skiing in the sun and snow in the Greens last week, last Thursday’s storm dropped 4-8″ of fresh snow up high, then some rain, and then it exited our region unwilling to cover up the rain-soaked snow with any significant fresh snow. Although there is now a great little base [...]
Photo of the Week: SNOvember
After one of the snowiest October’s on record for the higher elevations of the northeast, Snovember has already proven itself as another great month to ski in the northeast this season. With some colder air settling over the region this weekend, and the possibility for some fresh flakes tonight, the snow pack – which was [...]
Pray for Snow
Although there is some very fun skiing to be had across the northeast right now, including but by no means limited to a few lift-served spots at Sunday River, ME and Killington, VT, it’s exciting to think the approaching storm system could leave us with another round of snow for the weekend. Until then, a [...]
Backcountry Magazine Barn Bash
Don’t miss the upcoming Barn Bash, a great party, film showing, raffle and dance party – brought to you by our friends at Backcountry Magazine, on Friday, Nov. 5 from 6-10pm in Cambridge, VT.
103 Years of Skiing in the Northeast
It was a Nobel Prize winning, GE chemist named Irving Langmuir who was likely the first individual in North America to climb mountains with the intention of sliding from their summit. And he did this right here in the northeast, deep in the heart of the Adirondack and Appalachian mountains. Whether he knew it or [...]
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