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Jun 16
Photo of the Week: Skiing in June – Take 2
Here’s another example of what some of us northeastern skiers are known to do in June – when the snow is gone, but our skiing stoke is not. This is another image from East Greenland’s Schweizerland Alps, captured on a remote island that is part of an Arctic archipelago anchoring the southern end of these …
Jun 10
Photo of the Week: The Arctic Alps
Vermonters Forrest Twombly, Emily Johnson and Thomas Hite, with their skiing and camping gear in tow, pedal away from their seashore camp near Djupvik, Norway en route to a ferry that will lead them to the mountains across the fjord. NOTE: To view our other posts about Norway, click HERE.
Jun 06
Water Fetching, Gaspe Style
With the intention of being back by lunch, we had left our hut with one full bottle of water a piece. It was late March, somewhere in the western Monts Chic Chocs on Quebec’s Gaspe Peninsula, not too long after sunrise. After skiing a beautiful run through a spacious spruce-fir forest into the depths of …
Jun 01
Photo of the Week: Skiing in June
Even in the Northeast, there is usually some natural snow to ski on in the month of June, especially on Quebec’s Gaspe…and points north. For best results here in the northeast U.S., start walking toward the sheltered, higher elevations of Maine’s Katahdin or New Hampshire’s White Mountains…keep walking…and you might find a worthwhile strip of …
May 28
“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 …
