Off Piste in the Mad River Valley – Dec 2010
A good 5-7″+ inches of creamy powder snow blanketed Vermont’s General Stark Mountain (home to Mad River Glen ski area) on Wednesday night. With the holiday week ahead, and the official opening of MRG scheduled for today (12/24), this surprise snowfall could not have been better timed… Nor could it have been more fun to [...]
Old School, Off Piste and Balloons
Here’s something a little different…cool footage captured by Warren Miller, featuring off-piste skiing in the Austrian Alps back in the early 1960s. You’ve got to love the soundtrack! And check out the faceshots the third skier in the last scene gets – at approx. 1:28… Enjoy!
AMC Video Promotes Updated Northeast Skiing Guidebook
Vermont-based author David Goodman recently published the latest edition of his popular guidebook backcountry skiing in the northeast. His new book, Best Backcountry Skiing in the Northeast: 50 Classic Ski Tours in New England and New York, was released and published this fall by the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC), and it combines the two volumes [...]
Skiing the Greens – Early November 2010
On Monday (11/8), while rain, sleet and freezing rain cancelled schools in the valleys, a thin layer of fresh “snow” in the mountains took the edge off the weekend’s crust at all but the highest elevations.
103 Years of Skiing in the Northeast
It was a Nobel Prize winning, GE chemist named Irving Langmuir who was likely the first individual in North America to climb mountains with the intention of sliding from their summit. And he did this right here in the northeast, deep in the heart of the Adirondack and Appalachian mountains. Whether he knew it or [...]
Smuggler’s Notch Off-Piste
Stompin Grounds from Chris Nelson on Vimeo. Vermont skier and photographer/videographer Chris Nelson has compiled some nice footage from his 2009-10 skiing adventures, centered around Vermont’s Smuggler’s Notch area. This short film entitled, “Stompin’ Grounds”, features some of last season’s bountiful high-elevation snowfalls, as well as some classic northeastern “chute” and gully skiing… Enjoy! – [...]
Surfing Arctic Norway
We recently stumbled upon this terrific short film about Arctic Norway – produced from a surfer’s perspective. It features some of the same mountain areas that we explored by bicycle and skis this past spring. Whether you enjoy surfing or not, we think you’ll enjoy this! – Brian and Emily
“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 [...]
Ski Flying Over Avalanches in the Alps
Although this is a bit nutty, with Antoine Montant (a Chamonix-based extreme skier) setting off avalanches as he descends, there’s something about this that is downright impressive… (Thanks for the tip on this Mike B.!) Speed Riding – Antoine Montant – Can’t Stop
Video Remix: Off Piste at Mad River Glen
Off Piste in the Northeast – Chapter 3: Mad River Glen, VT (UPDATE: You can catch more of this footage at our slideshow, Off Piste in the Northeast, this coming Monday, Feb 15 @ 7pm at Sugarbush’s Gate House Lodge (Lincoln Peak Area) There is no doubt that Mad River Glen, VT has some of [...]
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