I got my own firsthand appreciation of native American lands and their massiveness while traveling with my family two summers ago through Arizona and Utah. It’s a cliché but it is true– it is way too vast to take in with the human eye. We happened to be traveling during the warmer months but three […]
Well you’ve no doubt seen the large red and orange behemoth of a structure by Metlife Stadium? It’s been teasing us with it’s hidden snowy wonders for years but sadly was never able to open. That is, until now! At long last The American Dream retail and entertainment center in New Jersey is finally open.
A huge and important chapter in snowsports has at long last sadly closed. Although he lived a long and lustrous life, Warren Miller finally shed his mortal coil at the age of 93 and is now watching down on all of us from the highest peak of all– Heaven. For many years I would dedicate
Back in 1930’s a few like-minded snowsports enthusiasts decided to create one of the very first ski clubs in New Jersey. They disbanded a few years later for reasons unknown but were revitalized in the 60’s under the guidance of a man named Conwell Martin. Martin worked at the now defunct Craigmeur Ski Resort in
From The Poor House to The Craigmeur Ski House! Read More »
I heard that Shawnee moved their main freestyle terrain park from one side of the mountain (The Bushkill run) clear to the other side (The Delaware run) near their beginner terrain park Incubator (located on the Country Club trail) for this season? If that’s true, what can we expect to find on the original Bushkill
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At the end of last season, I happened to be looking at a photo of my wife and myself from before we were married (13 years ago). I suddenly realized that my skis in the photo were the same ones that I was still cutting turns on! I was long overdue for an upgrade but
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Since its opening in 1956, Okemo Mountain in Ludlow, Vermont has been an increasingly popular Green Mountain destination for skiers and eventually of course snowboarders too. Okemo was initially known for its traditional Poma surface lifts rather than chairlifts but they now have the only magic-carpet style chairlift (to load/unload) that this writer has ever
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Whilst enjoying the slopes these days you don’t have to look very far to see fellow skiers and boarders preoccupied with their electronic devices. Everything from GoPro cameras mounted on helmets to smartphones on selfie sticks to heads up displays in goggles and of course iPods playing through all manner of headphones… the list gets
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