Category: General News

The Mountains Claim a Friend: Joel Levenberg,

Photo: Heading into the Never Summer Wilderness Area, Colorado – May 2002 The mountains claimed the life of a wonderful soul this past Saturday, May 21, 2011. Our longtime friend, Joel Levenberg, (third from the left w/snowboard) passed away after getting caught up in an avalanche on Colorado’s Torreys Peak. He was accompanied by two …

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Meathead Films Radio Interview on VPR

In case you missed it (like we did – b/c it was simply snowing too hard to think about anything else in mid-February), you can listen now to Geoff McDonald and Chris James, co-owners of the Vermont-based Meathead Films, talk about 10 years of making ski movies on Vermont Public Radio (VPR). Click HERE to …

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From Big Flood to Big Snow

Winter in the northeast…what a world of contrasts! While skiing in the pouring rain on Sunday morning here Vermont’s Green Mountains, it was hard to imagine that we would be skiing in some of most unforgettably deep and beautiful snow just twenty fours later. Then again, we are not the least bit surprised. The first …

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Chickering-Ayers Boys, Vermonters, Win US Extremes

Update 1/21am: Head to this link for some highlights from the final day at the event. Brothers Lars and Silas Chickering-Ayers, who were raised skiing Vermont’s Mad River Glen, skied away with first and third place finishes, respectively, at this year’s US Freeskiing Extremes in Crested Butte this past weekend. Their wins follow Lars’ first …

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Deep Powder and Yellow Birches

Just a week after winter had us more tempted to play pond hockey than to go skiing, we are once again up to our necks in snow. It suddenly seems as though all that “thin cover” skiing we’ve endured so far this season has been worth it after all. Here’s our good buddy Ian Forgays …

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