Old Man Winter paid us a visit again in the Northeast this week, and although he’s not here to stay for the winter quite yet, he did give us a very nice taste of the season ahead. A good 6″+ piled up along the highest elevations of the northern Green Mountains and Adirondacks, with snow …
Tag: adventure
Aug 26
Photo/Video of the Week: First Turns of the Season…on Grass Clippings
It seems Marquette Season is off to a particularly early start this time around. Sure, we’ve had some cool nights lately across the north country, but it’s hard telling what is inspiring folks to ski weeks before the first heavy frosts of the season. Then again, Marquette Backcountry Skis defy winter. They make skiing on …
Jun 21
Photo/Video of the Week: Days Off = Sweet Glisse
When Vermonter Quinn Keating has a day off from his work as the head of ski patrol at VT’s Bolton Valley, he doesn’t mess around. He’s especially motivated by certain long, powder-catching and schwack-free tree lines that stripe the northeastern mountainscape, and this nice string of footage he shares helps to illustrate why. So grab …
Jun 11
Photo of the Week: Memories of Winter
It was a particularly breezy afternoon, but the skiing was exceptionally good and we lingering straight through the sunset hour along the west side of the Greens. Our last climb landed us at the divide as a subtle alpen glow was fading, but while enough light still remained for one last descent to the east. …
May 29
Photo of the Week: Memorial Day Magic
The past weekend in the Northeast was pretty magical on many levels. It’s not often that Old Man Winter throws us a bone this late in the season. The rain that fell in the mountains prior to the changeover to snow also unleashed one of the more spectacular displays of waterfalls we’ve seen in the …

