Breaking in a new season of reports and forecasts! Summary Craftsbury has a few kilometers of manmade snow open. Mount Van Hoevenberg has the snow guns going and plans to open on the 26th. Forecast Mixed precipitation starts coming into the Finger Lakes and Tug Hill on Thanksgiving, but will turn over to rain. By …
Throwback Thursday
Pretty good skier, that one! https://vimeo.com/374213250 The more people ski cross-country, the better off the whole world's gonna beBill Koch
Cross-country skiing adventurers, death and mystery
Just after I finally cleaned and waxed the skis for summer storage and figured it's time to put the blog into hibernation, The New Yorker has a feature article about controversy and attempts to explain an ill-fated cross-country ski trip in the old Soviet Union: Has an Old Soviet Mystery at Last Been Solved? by …
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Not your parent’s normal
On May 4, NOAA updated the three-decade period of 'normal' climate to include the ten years from 2011-2020. So when weather forecasters talk about temperatures being above or below normal, it will now include the five hottest years in the U.S., all recorded since 2012. Your kids' normal winter isn't yours. And yours was not …
Winter constellation
Stories shape our view of what an experience should be. Oddly enough it seems like there's no real literature about winter or skiing prior to the 19th century and outside Europe. Be that as it may, the following is a foray into our collective snow globe over time: stories of winter and skiing, and what …
Across the Snow Line 