Now that it's November, might as well start getting ready. Snow has fallen in the the Adirondacks and as far south as mid-Vermont. For the upcoming season, different states and localities may interpret health concerns with some variation, so it may be worth checking ahead before heading out. Snow depth Northeast US, Nov. 2 2020 …
Update: Rollerskis, MSPP
[Update]: whether because the new RS skate boots are better boots than the old Combi boots or just that they're new and not as broken down, stability on the rollerskis was much improved today. Caught up in the moment In a fit of aspirational fitness, I went ahead and bought some rollerskis after all. Rationalizing …
Gone public
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 …
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.
Across the Snow Line 