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 [...]
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, [...]
Solstice, Skiing and Sauna
We made the most of the shortest day of the year by enjoying fresh tracks in some higher elevation, off-piste terrain that’s been tempting us for days, and by enjoying a nice wood-fired sauna with a few friends. The warmth and light of the sauna soothed our souls and recharged our bodies. And now, with [...]
Photo of the Week: Moonlit October Corn!
Oct 21, 2010 – Although you might have had to ski it to believe it, the skiing in the days following last weekend’s nor’easter has been beautiful and utterly spring like. With increasingly mild days in the valleys, and crispy cool nights, the snow’s been transforming to a near-perfect corn snow in the mountains – [...]
Old Man Winter Returns!
The first significant snow-producing nor’easter of the 2010-11 season dumped 10-30+″ of heavy snow over the highest mountain areas of the Northeast this weekend (VT’s Greens and NY’s Adirondacks, especially), and skiers have been out since Friday (10/15) morning embracing the return of our good friend Old Man Winter. Here are a few images from [...]
Photo of the Week: Dirt Road Skiing
There’s no better way to get in shape for the upcoming season of skiing adventures, than to go skiing. And if you haven’t before rocked a pair of dirt-road friendly roller skis on your favorite back roads, they are worth checking out. Known to most as a pavement-based training tool for serious and competitive nordic [...]
Photo of the Week: Crust Cruising
One of the great things about a little rainfall in the middle of February is that it sometime leads to the formation of a nice supportive crust atop the snowpack. If we’ve got a good base to work with, this can be especially fun, as the crust allows you to go nearly anywhere, and fast, [...]
Close Encounters With Old Man Winter
It was really nice to see Old Man Winter again on Monday. We found him high above Vermont’s Mad River Valley, getting ready to set off again after a nice weekend in the mountains. He left us a good blanket of snow to enjoy, and he hinted that he would likely be back again soon [...]
Two Wheels, Two Planks: Test Mission
With less than a week to go before we set off to northern Norway, we’ve been busy readying the bikes, our packing system and our BOB ski trailers. The day was comfortably warm and clear here in the Green Mountains of Vermont, so we made the most of it with an afternoon bike-ski adventure close [...]
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. Birds [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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