Generally speaking, I'm a pretty private person. This blog has been written in the form of a personal journal, as if each entry were a 'message in a bottle' without expectation of return. And I wasn't really expecting Fasterskier to contact me as a result of an email I sent in response to the open …
Author: cfski
Living in the NYC area means watching for skiable conditions.
The rollerskiing question
Every once in a while I think I should take up rollerskiing. Usually, recalling the couple of times I tried it decades ago encourages me to have a drink and calm down until the urge goes away. Of course nothing is so good for dryland simulation as rollerskiing, and after a winter like the one …
what snow?
Just to add yet more perversity to the season- on May 9 the NYC area received flurries of snow later than any day since 1977: The cause was a 'polar vortex', a wobble of the arctic air normally much further north that slipped south for a day.
Hibernation season
In the off-season, only the very occasional post gets published. Here's one that caught my attention: Intense and nice athletes Most people who cross-country ski bike in summer, and I found this item in FasterSkier interesting. I knew the life of a soigneur in a pro bike racing team was pretty terrible, but didn't realize …
The winter that was, part 2
Preamble The coronavirus epidemic made typical free-time concerns fade in urgency and motivation. But at long last, the skis have been cleaned, waxed, and put away for storage, and it's time to take a break and do some processing of data that doesn't involve health and safety. What's in a ranking anyway? Any list or …
Across the Snow Line 