Category: Adventures

Blue Skies and High Fives

Thanks to Vermont skiers, Rachel Wood and Tyler Cohen, for sharing a few words and images from their skiing adventures in Vermont’s Green Mountains earlier this January…. In Northern Vermont, it’s a rare occurrence to find blue skies and fresh snow in the same day, but we came upon this perfect recipe in early January …

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Great story about skiing the Thunderbolt…

Don’t miss Peter Bronski’s latest story about skiing the classic Thunderbolt Ski Trail on Mt. Greylock in Massachusetts’ Berkshires. The story recently published in the Jan/Feb issue of AMC Outdoors magazine, along with an image of ours captured off-piste on Mt Greylock.LINK

Big Wave Skiing is Born

Combining their passions for surfing and skiing, Mike Douglas and Cody Townshend are taking skiing to a whole new level. Using jet skis, they are towing into big Hawaiian surf with “surf skis” on their feet. Vermonter Jason Starr deserves a good bit of credit for this as well, as his Vermont-based Starr Surf Skis …

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Pedal Powered Skiing

Sometimes, instead of driving to the ski hill, we drop our ski packs into our BOB trailers, hop onto our bikes and pedal no more than an hour before beginning a beautiful day of skiing in our local mountains… It makes a great day of skiing truly world class, and it has made us excited …

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More on New Englander Dave Watson’s K2 Descent

Thanks to Adam Howard at Backcountry Magazine for this story about Watson’s skiing adventure on K2 this past summer…LINK This is a photo of K2’s north face and a route followed by the 1953 American Karakoram Expedition.