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The luck of the Irish

Posted 3/15/11

There are skiing discounts available in Vermont for St. Patrick's Day — and you don't even have to be Irish to enjoy them! Right now I count six lift ticket discounts in Vermont for Thursday, March…

Final day of NCAA Championships brings good news and less-than-good news

Posted 3/12/11

It's been exciting to have the nation’s best collegiate skiers around this week in Stowe! First the good news: Congratulations to UVM's Tim Kelley on his top performance in Saturday's NCAA…

Spills and thrills at 2011 NCAA Skiing Championships in Stowe

Posted 3/11/11

Note: Photos may take a moment to load. Yeah, I was a shutterbug today. Despite a rainy forecast, I made the journey to Stowe's Trapp Family Lodge today to watch the second day of nordic competition…

Recap of Day One of 2011 NCAA Skiing Championships in Stowe, Vermont

Posted 3/10/11

Top college ski teams after day one of NCAA skiing championships in Stowe, Vermont: 1 U. Colorado  2 Dartmouth  3 U. Utah  4 UVM  5 U. New Mexico  6 Denver U.  7 U. Alaska/ Anchorage  8 UNH  9…

Beaucoup snow, beaucoup sun at Smuggs on Mardi Gras

Posted 3/8/11

The good times certainly rolled today on the mountain. With more than two feet of new snow, warm temps and bright blue skies, today was an amazing day to be skiing in northern Vermont! At Smugglers'…

Big March snowstorm in northern Vermont

Posted 3/7/11

The snowstorm that is currently hitting Vermont has been most ferocious in the northern part of the Green Mountains. (It's about time! Several of the storms this season favored southern Vermont!) …

Thank goodness for good grooming at ski centers such as Rikert!

Posted 3/5/11

We had a sunny stretch this week before some ugly spring-like weather was to hit this weekend (a bit of rain on Saturday and then snow coming Sunday night). I just had to get out into the sunshine. …

Sunday cruising at Ole’s nordic center in Warren, Vt.

Posted 2/28/11

On Sunday the Skimeister and I heard that Monday would bring a “wintry mix” to northern Vermont, so we grabbed our gear and headed for Ole's Cross-Country Ski Center in Warren, Vermont. It’s a scenic…

Fun skiing wind-blown powder & finding lighter snow in the glades today!

Posted 2/26/11

What a fun morning to be skiing on my newish, wider skis! The width came in handy in the wind-blown powder at Bolton Valley, Vt., this morning. Area ski resorts received about a foot of new snow…

Snowstorm should make for great weekend skiing

Posted 2/25/11

Skiers in Vermont are all a-twitter about today's snowstorm. It's been snowing heavily, starting in southern Vermont and working its way up to northern Vermont. Here in the Champlain Valley, I was…

Sunny cross-country skiing at Trapp nordic today

Posted 2/23/11

I slathered on sunscreen, put on a headband and sunglasses, and took off on an afternoon ski at Trapp Family Lodge's cross-country trails in Stowe, Vt. Sun and blue skies have been the norm for a…

Longtime alpine skier takes a telemark lesson to learn to really free her heel

Posted 2/18/11

Oliver, the Smugglers' Notch telemark instructor who coached me this week, seems to have the same skiing philosophy that I do. Why stick only to skiing on the trails and why stick to just one kind of…

A Cotton Brook backcountry skiing adventure

Posted 2/13/11

On Saturday I joined two friends for our first exploration of the Cotton Brook backcountry trail in the in Bolton / Waterbury / Stowe area of Vermont. I believe we hit a bit of all three towns during…

Cross-country skiing at sunset in Burlington's Intervale

Posted 2/10/11

Hey, have you noticed? The days are getting longer! Later sunsets make for quality late-afternoon skiing sessions. With that in mind, the Skimeister and I grabbed our skinny skis and headed to the…

Snow piles up on Vermont's ski trails

Posted 2/9/11

Vermont ski resorts have enjoyed more fresh snow over the last two days! Four to 10 inches fell in the last 48 hours, depending where you were in the state.Bolton Valley reported 5-7" of snow during…

Cross-country skiing on Stowe's rec path, and UVM ski racing

Posted 2/6/11

What a fun, interesting weekend. It included skiing on the groomed Stowe recreation path in the sunshine, watching collegiate ski racers, enjoying apres ski in Stowe, experiencing a wild winter storm…

Powder "shots" from a powder day in northern Vermont at Bolton Valley

Posted 2/3/11

What a day to be skiing in Vermont today! Friends and I hit Bolton Valley this morning and we had a blast skiing in the powder. In some places the snow was a bit more than one-foot deep, while in…

About a foot of fresh snow to play in

Posted 2/2/11

I'm going skiing in the morning! Yippee! The boards are waxed and my boot bag is packed. I'm interested to see how the new Green Ski Wax I just used will hold up for me. It smelled different when I…

Catamount Trail skiing & a stay at a farmhouse inn in Waitsfield, Vermont

Posted 1/31/11

Catamount Trail Light snow fell most of the weekend in Vermont's Mad River Valley and on the other side of the Green Mountains, where I was skiing section 17 of the Catamount Trail. As our group…

Backcountry ski touring in northern Vermont

A Vermont ski resort poll

Posted 1/28/11

I'm so looking forward to some backcountry skiing around the spine of the Green Mountains this weekend! While northern Vermont missed this week's coastal storm, it looks like we'll get some light snow…

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