Tag: terrain

Photo of the Week: The Steep Season

You can always count on the White Mountains of New Hampshire for offering up some of the finest steep corn in the country this time of year. Terrain that is seldom safe and fun to ski mid-winter transforms into a candy store for skiers in springtime. Days like this often beg the question…if you had …

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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 …

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Photo of the Week: Powder is Back!

Since late Monday, light to moderate snowfall has been the rule over the higher elevations of the northeast. Terrain and aspects prone to catching more snow are shaping up again, and there is some very nice powder skiing to be enjoyed on wind-protected lines above 2500′. Where the wind is blowing, only 3-6″, rain-crusted base …

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