Tag: backcountry

Photo of the Week: Green Mountain Gold

The new snow we picked up late last week and weekend (16″+ in some areas) set us up for a beautiful stretch of skiing over this past week in Vermont, especially in our more sheltered, upper-elevation forests. Steeper lines characterized by narrow drainages, rocky ledges and frozen waterfalls are in rare form right now, and …

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Photo of the Week: Really Cold Smoke

There’s nothing like a late-afternoon mission into some favorite local steeps on a windy, -5F degree afternoon in Vermont’s Green Mountains to get the powder flying… After 30+ days of cold and snow, snow, snow, it’s incredible how commonplace scenes like this have become. And it’s only mid-February. Ski you out there. -Brian LIKE AdventureSkier.com …

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Photo of the Week: Winter On Hold

While giving the snow a chance to pile up in the Great White North, we’re playing around with some Pacific swell, a lil’ offshore wind, and the 10′ BIC SUP Air – a highly versatile, inflatable surfboard that is as much at home in the rapids of a Vermont river in springtime as it is …

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Photo of the Week: Dust on Crust at its Finest

LIKE AdventureSkier.com on Facebook. Thanks! It’s been a beautiful week of dust-on-crust skiing in most locations. The flakes have been piling up one little snow squall at a time, and it seems like this pattern should keep up for at least the week ahead, too. Untracked low to medium angle terrain b/w 2000-3000′ is especially …

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Photo of the Week: Happy New Year

> Here’s to a snowy, more peaceful, healthy and happy 2015! To kicks things off, it looks like we’ve got some fresh snow (maybe several inches+ accumulating by Sunday am), and perhaps some other forms of precip on their way late in the weekend, too…but we should come out ahead…so don’t sweat it. Ski you …

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