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Gear Giveaway – Oct/Nov: Name These Mountains

Congrats! to Pennie Rand, of Richmond, VT, for being the first and only one to correctly guess the name of the ski trail featured in the Aug/Sept contest. The trail featured was the historic Bruce Trail descending the east side of Vermont’s Mount Mansfield. The image was captured from a rare perspective on the trail …

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Photo of the Week: Dirt Road Skiing

There’s no better way to get in shape for the upcoming season of skiing adventures, than to go skiing. And if you haven’t before rocked a pair of dirt-road friendly roller skis on your favorite back roads, they are worth checking out. Known to most as a pavement-based training tool for serious and competitive nordic …

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First Snowflakes of the Season?

Although the higher elevations of NH’s Whites and NY’s Dacks received a dusting of frozen precipitation (some would call it snow) back in mid-September (does anyone have any photos to share?), we have yet to witness the first real accumulation of snowflakes over our northeastern mountains this season. We could see the snowflakes flying this …

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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 …

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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 …

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