Tomorrow, March 31, is the closing day of the ski/winter season for Maine’s Baxter State Park…(If you head out tonight, you could probably be on the summit of Katahdin by noon Thursday.) Every year, starting April 1, the privately-owned park is left for Mother Nature to run her course, until late May. April would arguably …
Tag Archive: off piste
May 06
Photo of the Week: “Dadda…I Wanna Ski Weally Fast!”
Since we started skiing with our daughter, Maiana Snow, when she was just ten days old, it was clear that she enjoyed being out in the mountains with us. During her first winter with us, after we mastered the backcountry diaper change, she started to “coo” a lot while skiing with us. In her second …
Apr 30
Photo of the Week: Off Piste on Mozodepowadso
For many generations before the arrival of white settlers, the Abenaki referred to Vermont’s highest mountain as “Mozodepowadso”, which translates to Moosehead Mountain. For reasons not entirely clear (as investigated by VT’s Seven Days in July 2013), Big Mozo came to be called Mt. Mansfield in the mid-18th century – and the name has remained …