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Sep 29
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 …
Sep 20
Photo of the Week: Hurricane Powder?
For more than a week, Hurricane Igor, which developed from a small tropical weather system spinning off the coast of Saharan Africa, has been gradually working its way northward through the north Atlantic. Igor has filled the north Atlantic with massive swells, picked a serious fight with the small island of Bermuda (which is coping …
Sep 14
Maine’s Sugarloaf Expands Off-Piste Terrain
Maine’s Sugarloaf resort recently announced plans to begin thinning the heavily forested terrain on adjacent Burnt Mountain, thereby turning a relatively under-utilized backcountry skiing zone into marked and patrolled sidecountry. Sugarloaf plans to open some of this indian pharmacy no prescription terrain this coming 2010-11 season, and phase two of the expansion calls for the …
Sep 13
Photo(s) of the Week: Snow On Its Way
“Just think, we could be skiing thirty days from now,” were the kind words I woke up to on Sunday morning. At this time last year, we were truly just thirty days away from the first good snowfall of the season in the higher mountains of the northeast (click on thumbnail below). Thirty days. For …
Sep 05
Photo of the Week: Skiing With Horses
Over our years of exploring in the southern Andes, horses has saved us countless miles of slogging (with heavy packs and ski gear, across rugged terrain) while approaching some of the more remote mountain peaks we’ve chosen to ski. One especially memorable day began after two days of springtime snow and rain dumped upon our …
