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12-Hour Loop for Northern Hemisphere U.S./Canada – Courtesy: Unisys Weather
Whether you are a weather junkie or not, take a peek at our newly updated weather page, which includes some cool time-lapse infrared, satellite and water vapor or the U.S. and the Northeast.
As we continue to make improvements to this page, please feel free to use [...]
“Skiing on Stones” – Sylvain Saudan Shows Us How It’s Done
Former French extreme skiing pioneer, Sylvain Saudan – also known as “the skier of the impossible” – trained for his extremely challenging and oft-unrepeated ski descents in the French Alps and in the Himalaya, by skiing down snow-free mountainsides. Aside from the training element of this kind of skiing, it seems clear that Saudan was [...]
2 Wheels, 2 Planks: The Ski Bike
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Here’s one of the four bicycles (with some refinements reminaing) that our crew we’ll begin riding this coming Friday, April 23, at the airport in Tromso, Norway. With the support of the Consulate General of Norway, and on assignment for WEND Magazine, Adventure Cyclist, and others, we are embarking on a [...]
Holmenkollen Ski Jump
This is a bit of a diversion from our usual posts here at AdventureSkier, but it was too cool to pass up. We can thank the Norwegian Tourist Board for giving us all a take at the famous Holmenkollen Ski Jump, which is being rebuilt with plans to reopen this May 2010.
From the VisitOslo.com [...]
Avalanches in the White Mountains
Nearly 60″ of fresh snow over the last week has once again transformed our northeastern mountains. With 8″ of wind-driven snow having fallen this past Sunday night on the higher summits of the White Mountains, slab avalanches will remain a considerable risk on many steeper slopes in the coming days. If you are heading [...]
Winter 09-10 Backcountry Ski Review
Skis designed with the downhill oriented skier in mind (lift served and backcountry, telmark or AT) continue to feature ever-widening dimensions, more durable construction and control-enhancing improvements to the tip, tail and overall shape of the ski. Several skis in this review feature “rockered” or early-rise tips, which are ski tips that begin to lift [...]
Big Wave Skiing is Born
Combining their passions for surfing and skiing, Mike Douglas and Cody Townshend are taking skiing to a whole new level. Using jet skis, they are towing into big Hawaiian surf with “surf skis” on their feet. Vermonter Jason Starr deserves a good bit of credit for this as well, as his Vermont-based Starr Surf [...]
Junkboarding Gets Some Press
Here’s a great story about our friend Dave Bouchard and “junkboarding” – the act of skiing on skis cut from a junked snowboard – that was recently published in Vermont’s Seven Days newspaper and was penned by Kirk Kardashian. LINK
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The Flux Capacitor
The next time you have to carry your skis on the approach to an amazing day of skiing in the mountains, consider our good friend Craig Barnard’s signature Flux Capacitor technique. The Flux Capacitor has several advantages over strapping your skis diagonally or A-frame style to your backpack:
• You can bushwhack like you’ve never [...]
Grass Skiing 101
It all starts with the your favorite pair of old, dusty boards…and a good attitude. Then…
1. Wait for some light rain;
2. Head for an older New England ski area trail with an especially thick coat of grass and moss, and few, if any, rocks exposed;
3. Try not to turn much.
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Backcountry Skiing Gear Primer
By Brian Mohr
Every snow season, we encounter more and more skiers and riders who want to take to the“backcountry” – that world beyond the boundaries of ski areas where untracked snow, solitude and unfamiliar terrain await the adventurous spirit. Appetites for fresh powder can be so serious that the aspiring backcountry-bound can sometimes be [...]
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