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 [...]
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 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 [...]
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 [...]
PHOTOS of the WEEK
