Gear Shed: Trail Runners and Wool Tees
We’ve been playing around with some impressive gear lately, and feel as though the Scarpa’s Spark trail running shoe and Smartwool’s PHD Wool Tees are well worth a plug. Without getting too carried away with the details here, we’ve got the following impressions to share. Feel free to click on the product image for more [...]
Video: Pasture Ripping in Vermont – Vol. 1
After a mid-winter thaw leaves us with a crusty snowpack close to home, pasture skiing (aka field skiing or crust cruising) reminds us how simple, beautiful and fun skiing can be. It’s also a cool way to connect with the local landscape and a great excuse to enjoy a fine sunset session after a long [...]
Photo(s) of the Week: Marquette Season
After struggling to keep Superstorm Sandy from interfering with the lives of millions in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions (and dumping historic amounts of snowfall over the Central Appalachians in his attempt), Old Man Winter was finally able to shoe Sandy away this weekend. He also had enough energy remaining to deliver several inches of [...]
Gear Shed: Run For the Hills
Since New Hampshire’s Mt. Washington picked up its first snowflakes of the season a few days ago, we’ve been extra motivated to squeeze in some trail running this week. Be it the rock and stream hopping, the hill climbs, or the quick foot work as you whip through the beautiful hardwood forest, trail running is [...]
Prepare for Winter: Ski Swaps, Ticket Deals and More…
If you’re not already out there enjoying some of the early season snow that’s been flying, at least there is plenty going to get you ready for it. Here’s a short list of upcoming swaps, events and ticket deals to help you get ready for the season ahead… Vermont Lift Ticket Deals for 2011-12 @ [...]
Photo of the Week: Flooded Skis
It should be no news by now that much of Vermont, as well as many areas along the US east coast, were hard hit by Hurricane/Tropical Storm Irene’s flooding rains and wind. If you aren’t already helping out in the large-scale recovery effort now underway, please consider pitching in any way you can. If you [...]
UPDATE Feb.12: A New Secret Weapon? A Sneak Peek at the Marquette Backcountry Ski
by Brian Mohr David Olilla, who calls the playful mountains of Michgan’s Upper Peninsula home, is onto something revolutionary. He’s now producing a ski that many of us here in the northeast have been dreaming about for years. It thrives in thin-cover/ice-free conditions common in the very early or very late season, and in many [...]
2010-11 Skis for your Skiing Adventures
October 2010 By Brian Mohr and Emily Johnson With their ever-widening dimensions, rockered (or early rise) tips and tails, and reduced sidecuts, the latest downhill-oriented ski designs are making it more fun than ever to ski the softer snows of the northeast’s resorts, sidecountry zones and backcountry. An emerging trend this year is the availability [...]
Upcoming Vermont Ski Swaps
Although Old Man Winter is already on his way back to the mountains of the northeast this weekend, there remain plenty of ski swaps on the calendar for those needing to shed or acquire a little ski gear. Thanks to SkiMaven.com for compiling this nice list of Vermont ski swaps taking place this fall. -Brian
Photo of the Week: Really Cool Handmade Skis
Brianna Morse – the niece of our friend Pennie Rand and a student at Middlebury College in Vermont – designed and built these beautiful skis as part of her high school senior project in Colorado last spring. Vermont-based designer Poppy Gall, recently featured these skis on her blog. Check out the larger story behind the [...]
2 Wheels, 2 Planks: The Ski Bike
(Click on image to enlarge) 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 [...]
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 [...]
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