Sep 14
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 addition of a snow-cat service. Check out this recent story in Maine’s Lewiston Sun Journal for more.
– Emily
Sep 13
“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 the time being, there are plenty of other things we all should be doing – like swimming, picking tomatoes and making BLTs. Still, it’s hard not to be thinking a bit more these days about the snowy season ahead, especially when our friends out west dangle the above photo in front of us. This image was captured over the weekend at the top of Jackson Hole in Wyoming. (Credit: Jackson Hole Resort)
Think snow.
-Brian
Sep 05
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 camp, high up in Chilean Patagonia’s endangered Rio Baker watershed. A day’s worth of wading through flooded pastures, crossing snow-melt choked streams and some good ol’ fashioned bushwhacking lay between our cozy camp and our next skiing objective. Without these horses, I’m quite sure we would have attempted to wait out the storm – even if it meant eating through our food supplies and surviving on fresh trout and wild greens for a few days. The second image below illustrates just how much water we were dealing with at some of the river crossings. (That’s our friend Vicki Beaudoin with the blue hood in both photos; and Emily Johnson in the first photo sporting the extra-stylish trash bag hoody) – Brian
Aug 30
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.
Aug 21
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
