The featured image for this entry is a map of locations in the US and Europe that store snow. Craftsbury is the lowest in both latitude and elevation, making if a challenging test. Read more in the article at FasterSkier. I was at Craftsbury early last season as they were beginning to store snow. Adding …
The Internet is a funny non-place in which you get a huge amount of information regarding a sliver of someone's interests and life. A person's actual life is something of abstraction, until it isn't. Back in the early aughts of this century, I stumbled on the website of someone named Ken Roberts. He had posted …
Olympic cross-country ski champion Kikkan Randall finished today’s NYC marathon in a bit under three hours. See NBC Sports. She ran with fellow former US Ski Team members Liz Stephen and Ida Sargent. https://nbcolympictalk.files.wordpress.com/2019/11/img_0357-e1572809893456.jpg (NBC Sports photo) One of the things that’s most impressive is her calm and reserved public manner. Maybe she’s hyper-focused and …
Photograph by Nisse Schmidt / Vasaloppet All winter recreations owe their glory to the absence of frictionBill McKibben Back in February I pointed to an NPR story about Mora Minnesota and people helping to save their local Vasaloppet. This week comes an article in the New Yorker by Bill McKibben, who participated in the actual …
"30s are brisk…" ... 20s are 'cool', teens are 'chilly', single digits are 'cold'. You can only say 'freezing' when it's subzero, and wind chill doesn't count, because it'd be dumb to go outside nude in the wintertime. It's a mantra that's served me well. I'm not alone in pushing back at the way weather …
Across the Snow Line 
