Apr 03
This past Saturday was a good day to take the umbrellas skiing with us. Scattered rain showers over the trailhead turned to a short lived downpour about ten minutes into our climb. Before long, as we had hoped, the rain transitioned to snow, piling up just enough to mask what would have been a relatively …
Mar 26
Really Good Friday from AdventureSkier on Vimeo. All this sunshine and corn snow has got us day dreaming about Easter weekend a few years back in Vermont’s Mad River Valley. It’s fun to relive the speed-checking-face-shot-tail-slap maneuvers in the latter half of the clip, too… Enjoy -Brian LIKE AdventureSkier.com on Facebook. Thanks!
May 06
Since we started skiing with our daughter, Maiana Snow, when she was just ten days old, it was clear that she enjoyed being out in the mountains with us. During her first winter with us, after we mastered the backcountry diaper change, she started to “coo” a lot while skiing with us. In her second …
Apr 30
For many generations before the arrival of white settlers, the Abenaki referred to Vermont’s highest mountain as “Mozodepowadso”, which translates to Moosehead Mountain. For reasons not entirely clear (as investigated by VT’s Seven Days in July 2013), Big Mozo came to be called Mt. Mansfield in the mid-18th century – and the name has remained …
Apr 22
Making the most of a very sweet corn harvest across the Northeast last week, Sean Curry gets after on the flanks of Agiocochook…”Mother Goddess of the Storm” (aka Mt Washington, NH). LIKE AdventureSkier.com on Facebook. Thanks!
