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 [...]
Six Years Ago This Week: Remembering Doug Coombs
Six years ago this week, the Northeast-bred, steep skiing pioneer, Doug Coombs, passed away while skiing and attempting to rescue a friend near his home in La Grave, France. After skiing in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine as a child, Coombs left a lasting mark on the adventure skiing world with his exploratory descents in [...]
VIDEO: Full Moon Freshies
What an incredible stretch of weather is upon us right now! With blue skies, sunshine and a big moon overhead this week, and varying amounts of fresh snow awaiting us for after (or pre-) work adventures to sheltered, mid-to-high elevation mountainsides…it’s been easy to keep the thin-cover worries at bay. More snow is in the [...]
VIDEO: The Zero Approach Ski Tour
While some nice fresh snow has been piling up at higher elevations this past week (in the 1-5″ range) there’s nothing but a good ol’ fashioned crust coating most lower to middle elevation terrain. Fortunately, this crust is relatively supportive and offers a smooth skiing surface, especially with some fatter skis. Close to home, our [...]
Video: DUST ON CRUST
January Thaw has been going at it with Old Man Winter this past week, leaving our snowpack coated in varying degrees of crust, fresh snow and everything in between. Although the latest winter storm on Friday put down up to 8-10″ of fresh snow in parts of the Northeast (northern Maine and Quebec scored best), [...]
Video: “Singletrack Skiing” Green Mountains, Vermont – Early January 2012
Almost daily squalls of Champlain Powder treated higher elevation zones in the central and northern Green Mountains to 3-10″ of fresh snow this past week. This made it possible to trail check a few lines that we sensed needed some minor broken-branch and dead-limb clearing. Returning to one area after several more inches of snow [...]
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 [...]
Film Trailer for Powderwhore’s Breaking Trail
There’s not a whole lot of footage from the northeast in Powderwhore’s latest film (none, in fact), but Breaking Trail is a celebration of the untracked and primarily human-powered skiing experience – something we really love, of course. So take a peek, and get ready for another wonderful winter season ahead. – Brian Follow this [...]
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). [...]
Latest East Coast Ski Movie Trailer – The Meathead’s Prime Cut
The folks at Meathead Films, who for ten years have been producing feature length ski films that have remained loyal to the east-coast skiing experience, will release their tenth feature film, Prime Cut, later this fall. Until then, here’s a sneak peek at the film. Enjoy! From the producers: “Meathead Films has spent the last [...]
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!
In Memory of Ryan Hawks (Updated 3/12)
Updated with photos 3/12: It might still be news to many that the mountains claimed the life of a wonderful person, son, brother, step-brother, grandson, a friend to many and a very talented skier this past week – twenty-five year old Ryan Hawks. Ryan grew up in South Burlington, Vermont, graduated from UVM, and honed [...]
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