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Maine’s Sugarloaf Expands Off-Piste Terrain

Maine’s Sugarloaf resort recently announced plans to begin thinning the heavily forested terrain on adjacent Burnt Mountain, thereby turning a relatively under-utilized backcountry skiing zone into marked and patrolled sidecountry. Sugarloaf plans to open some of this indian pharmacy no prescription terrain this coming 2010-11 season, and phase two of the expansion calls for the …

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Photo(s) of the Week: Snow On Its Way

“Just think, we could be skiing thirty days from now,” were the kind words I woke up to on Sunday morning. At this time last year, we were truly just thirty days away from the first good snowfall of the season in the higher mountains of the northeast (click on thumbnail below). Thirty days. For …

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Photo of the Week: Skiing With Horses

Over our years of exploring in the southern Andes, horses has saved us countless miles of slogging (with heavy packs and ski gear, across rugged terrain) while approaching some of the more remote mountain peaks we’ve chosen to ski. One especially memorable day began after two days of springtime snow and rain dumped upon our …

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Photo of the Week: Summer Survival

There are many wonderful ways we all cope with the relative lack of snow in the summer months, yet none compares to the thrill of riding an ocean wave… This one courtesy of Hurricane Danielle.

Photo of the Week: Ski Training, Family Style

Fellow Montana-based writer and photographer, Aaron Teasdale, recently embarked on a seriously inspiring, pedal-powered family vacation that will undoubtedly have the Teasdale family in great shape for the coming ski season… Check out what they are up to HERE. Photo credit: Aaron Teasdale