Photo of the Week: Dreaming of Hut Trips
Be it the High Peaks of the Adirondacks, New Hampshire’s AMC huts, Quebec’s Parc de la Gaspesie, northern Maine, Newfy’s Long Range or your buddy’s camp in the Greens…there are countless options for overnight or extended hut-based skiing adventures here in the Northeast. With our snowpack up to mid-winter levels, and snow conditions in prime [...]
5th Annual Sugarbush/Mad River Glen Randonee Race
Now in its fifth year, the Mountain Hardwear Ski Mountaineering Race returns to Vermont’s Mad River Valley on Sunday, Feb. 6, 2011 to challenge adventurous skiers of all abilities on a beautiful course connecting Mad River Glen and Sugarbush ski areas, via the Long Trail and Slidebrook area. This is a great event for all [...]
Photo of the Week: Green Mountain Gold
Ian Forgays comes up for a breath, high above Vermont’s Mad River Valley. Need we say more?
Deep Powder and Yellow Birches
Just a week after winter had us more tempted to play pond hockey than to go skiing, we are once again up to our necks in snow. It suddenly seems as though all that “thin cover” skiing we’ve endured so far this season has been worth it after all. Here’s our good buddy Ian Forgays [...]
Why We Love Old Man Winter
While the January Thaw earlier this month hooked us up with a few pleasant, spring-like days, it also wiped out a good bit of our already thin snow pack. Then, while out skiing a few meager pasture strips last Tuesday (see first image below), snowflakes started to fly once again. It was as if Old [...]
Photo of the Week: Fluff-on-Crust
We’ve picked up 2-12″ of fresh fluff in the higher elevations of the northeast this week, and as the image here illustrates, there is some beautiful fresh snow starting to pile up in places. However, there’s not much under it…so take it slow, and pray for even more snow. With some luck, we should pick [...]
Backcountry Update: Early Jan – Post Thaw – Dust on Crust
After nearly three weeks of cold temps and beautiful skiing (see above and this video)- especially in the more open, higher elevation backcountry zones – a perfectly seasonal January Thaw has taken its toll. While the Thaw has left us with an especially thin snowpack down low (if you’ve got any snow at all) across [...]
Northeast Skiing: A World of Contrasts
The past week in the northeast offered a perfectly normal yet utterly wild swing in the weather and snow conditions – an annual event many of us refer to as the January Thaw. For the moment, at least, the change in weather has nearly wiped out the thin snowpack we had at the lowest elevations, [...]
Climbing and Skiing 2 Million Vertical Feet in One Year
Just yesterday, British Columbia based Greg Hill – a passionate and talented skier, husband, and father of two – successfully reached his goal of climbing and skiing 2 million vertical feet (670,000 meters) in one year. To accomplish this, he did not rely on chairlifts, snow cats, snowmobiles, helicopters to reach the top of his [...]
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