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 …
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And then there were two
Now that we're under NY State PAUSE ('shelter-in-place' by another name), I'm only doing the updates for the data. Trapp Family Lodge and Bear Notch are hanging tough, despite the weather and the coronavirus. Osceola may yet open its trails if they get the snow they're expecting. Craftsbury called out the congregations of skiers and …
March 19 Ski conditions + weekend forecast
This post contains section links to More info, Forecast, and Coda. Summary Weather and the Covid-19 epidemic have put an early end to the ski season in the northeast. Despite some decent snow cover in the far north country, only a few places remain technically 'open', but most of their facilities are closed to the …
A weird, sad, ending
Except for the White Mountains, where good skiing can still be found, the fat guy has definitely sung his aria: It's all over Between the weather and the escalating Covid-19 epidemic, most ski areas called it quits this weekend, even if they have enough cover to go another week or so. The exceptions that remain …
Pins to pivots, and the nightmare of the ’90s
The ideal cross-country ski binding, someone once observed, would be a door hinge attaching the toe of a ski boot to the ski. Considering how simple the objective is, the engineering of cross-country ski bindings became fraught with complexity saw a period of great experimentation (that sounds better, right?). It's hard to explain how ridiculously …
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Across the Snow Line 