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 …
The winter that was, part 1
The winter just past was pretty terrible, was it not? After a promising early snowfall that teased us downstaters, it seemed like every subsequent storm left the mid- and lower-Hudson valley with rain. The fact that up north, particularly the White mountains, wound up with a large snowpack was cold comfort. And then the coronavirus …
March endnotes
[Updated Sunday March 29]- Trapp Family Lodge called it a season yesterday, but Bear Notch is seeing things thru to the end. Jackson XC is in the funny place of not really being open, but posting 49k of trails and 'courtesy grooming'. Osceola is posting weather but not trail conditions. Basically, no one wants visitors …
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 …
Across the Snow Line 