Almost daily squalls of Champlain Powder treated higher elevation zones in the central and northern Green Mountains to 3-10″ of fresh snow this past week. This made it possible to trail check a few lines that we sensed needed some minor broken-branch and dead-limb clearing. Returning to one area after several more inches of snow …
Tag: off piste
Feb 09
Photo of the Week: Northeast Off-Piste
It’s mid-winter, and with an above-average (and growing!) snow pack coating most of our northeastern mountain areas, the off-piste terrain at all elevations is skiing incredibly well. (The powder, chopped-powder and packed-powder conditions at most northeastern ski areas are also well worth skiing!) Creeks and brooks are filling in, the brush and logs of the …
Dec 20
Old School, Off Piste and Balloons
Here’s something a little different…cool footage captured by Warren Miller, featuring off-piste skiing in the Austrian Alps back in the early 1960s. You’ve got to love the soundtrack! And check out the faceshots the third skier in the last scene gets – at approx. 1:28… Enjoy!
Nov 09
Skiing the Greens – Early November 2010
On Monday (11/8), while rain, sleet and freezing rain cancelled schools in the valleys, a thin layer of fresh “snow” in the mountains took the edge off the weekend’s crust at all but the highest elevations.
Oct 26
2010-11 Skis for your Skiing Adventures
October 2010 By Brian Mohr and Emily Johnson With their ever-widening dimensions, rockered (or early rise) tips and tails, and reduced sidecuts, the latest downhill-oriented ski designs are making it more fun than ever to ski the softer snows of the northeast’s resorts, sidecountry zones and backcountry. An emerging trend this year is the availability …
