Although relatively uncommon in comparison to the higher peaks of New York’s Adirondacks, New Hampshire’s White Mountains, Maine’s Katahdin and Quebec’s Gaspe, Vermont’s steeper mountainsides are susceptible to life-threatening avalanches. During this past week alone, several reports of small slab and sluff avalanches have come in. Recent winds have loaded steep gulleys and even forested …
Category: Fresh Tracks
Dec 25
Adventure Skiing Slideshows
This winter, join us at one of our upcoming slideshows, presented as part of our 5th Annual Wild People, Wild Places Slideshow Series. By combining digitally projected still photos, video footage and our off-the-cuff narration, we bring to life our skiing adventures throughout the Northeast US/Canada, Iceland, Patagonia, Greenland and more. Some of our shows …
Dec 23
Bolton Valley Gets A Wind Turbine
Bolton Valley is now the first Vermont ski area to install its own wind turbine for generating electricity. The turbine, built and installed by the Barre, VT-based Northern Power Systems, is estimated to generate nearly ten percent of the ski area’s electricity needs, while reducing annual carbon emissions by nearly 300 tons. Here’s a brief …
Oct 25
Adirondack Backcountry Ski Festival
Are you interested in connecting with the folks that know skiing in Adirondacks best? Don’t miss this year’s 8th Annual Adirondack Backcountry Ski Festival, scheduled for early March, in New York’s Keene Valley. This annual event, organized by friendly folks at The Mountaineer in Keene, NY and their friends at Cloudsplitter Guides, is a great …
Oct 17
Junkboarding Gets Some Press
Here’s a great story about our friend Dave Bouchard and “junkboarding” – the act of skiing on skis cut from a junked buy roche diazepam online snowboard – that was recently published in Vermont’s Seven Days newspaper and was penned by Kirk Kardashian. LINK
