Dodging Rain Showers
The resiliency of the ski season here in the Northeast never ceases to amaze us. Last Tuesday afternoon (1/17), when temperatures climbed above freezing and a steady rainfall ensued, it was hard to imagine that we’d be skiing such beautiful snow just a few days later. Then again, this is the Northeast – home to [...]
New Video: Champlain Powder – Dec 2011
With another 1-6″ of powder snow falling since late Monday over the Adirondacks, Green Mountains (Champlain Powder) and parts of northern NH, ME and Quebec, we’ve got some nice fresh snow to slide around on this week. Although natural-snow base depths are very thin, some well maintained off-piste and backcountry lines are starting to lure [...]
Giving Thanks
We are thankful at AdventureSkier for our good health and friends and families and our community; for the beauty and magic of the world in which we live; for the simple things that you don’t need to buy; for the warmth of the sun and the freshness of the wind. We are thankful for those [...]
Vermont’s Chickering-Ayers Wins Chilean Freeskiing Championships
Lars Chickering-Ayers stood atop another podium this past weekend after skiing the course at Chile’s Valle El Arpa resort with impressive speed and style. You can take a peek at Lars’ run in the video by sliding the run time on the video to 6:50 and watching from there… (Allow video to load completely, first). [...]
Photo of the Week: Patagonian Dreams
We had the great fortune of getting close to this beautiful mountain a few years back. It stretched for the sky like no other peak around us. It’s the birthplace of a great Chilean river, the endangered Rio Baker. And lately, we’ve been dreaming of skiing it. It’s tempting to live out our dreams and [...]
Photo of the Week: The Big Red Ski Sled
It’s not like we are relying on our trusty 16′ canoe for any long distance load hauling into the backcountry of Quebec’s Gaspe or Maine’s Baxter Park, but there’s no doubt that Big Red comes in handy now and then as a sled. It also gives us incredible floating access to some of our favorite [...]
Photo of the Week: Skiing on the Solstice
With our skiing options rather limited in the northeast, we headed north on June 20th a few years back to research a story about Iceland’s emerging backcountry skiing industry and explore a range of wild mountains towering over the Greenland Sea. Close to midnight on June 21, we shouldered our packs and set off into [...]
Photo of the Week: Summer “Skiing”
“Hey, it’s pretty thin, but I think there’s a little snow over this way…” -Brian Follow this LINK to “Like” AdventureSkier.com on Facebook. Thanks!
Photo of the Week: From the Vault – 66 Degrees North
It’s that time of year again when the snow is all but gone here in the northeast US/Canada, and memories of past spring skiing adventures in some far off places have us day dreaming. Here’s an image Emily captured at midnight on May 30th a few years back…on the far reaches of Iceland’s wild West [...]
Photo of the Week: Skiing Patagonia, Saving Patagonia
We’ve spent several months of our lives exploring a rare and unique corner of the earth known as Chile’s Rio Baker watershed – which is located in the heart of Chilean Patagonia. Sadly, this gem of a place is under attack by an Spanish/Italian energy giant that hopes to build five major dams on two [...]
Video: Almost Mother’s Day
Last turns of the season on natural snow in Vermont’s Green Mountains… on the Marquette Backcountry Skis. The grass skiing on the lower mountain, after we ran out of snow, was in its element. Enjoy! Follow this LINK to “Like” AdventureSkier.com on Facebook. Thanks!
May in the Northeast Mountains
Life is good here in the Northeast when we are still skiing nearly top to bottom lines in May. And this past Sunday, whether you were climbing for turns in one of your favorite springtime playgrounds, riding lifts at Sugarbush, Killington or Jay – or simply skiing vicariously through others – skiers were kicking off [...]
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