Winter Arrives
After a slow start, it suddenly snowed and winter was here, full-time, for now. Top and below, the Montpelier, VT, middle school cross-country team heads across a field on an…
Last Days of a Long Season
It started snowing in early November in Vermont and kept snowing, with a few rainstorms in between, well into April. At its deepest, the snow on top of Mt. Mansfield,…
World Cup at Killington
Mikaela Shiffrin celebrates her slalom win Sunday. When bringing a weekend of women's World Cup alpine ski racing from Europe to Killington, VT, was proposed, Eastern skiers all but guaranteed…
First Snow
I know it was 70 last week, but the first snow has arrived on Vermont's Mount Mansfield, and skiers and boarders have been walking up to ride down. Right on…
Bend, OR
People in Bend, Oregon, are pretty insistent about Bend being sunny, as in more than 300 days a year that are either sunny or mostly sunny. I was there last week…
Wintry Notch
Hard to beat Smugglers Notch in Stowe for drama in early winter. It's not Buffalo, but it is winter. This was Friday, temperatures in the low 20s and a gusty wind.…
Slightly Snowier
Ok, it's a little early in the season to be obsessed with snow, but it's still interesting that the valleys remain their tawny, gray and purple November colors while much of…
Green Again
Spring always creeps slowly into the winter-brown Vermont hills and then explodes. This, the other foliage season, a riot of green, seems to arrive in the space of three days.…
La Coupe du Monde, Quebec
Nordic skiing World Cup races are rarely held outside of Europe's skiing nations, where almost every winter weekend they are watched by the kind crowds North America can only manage…
Ski Skate
Ski skating in a snow squall on Great Hosmer Pond, Craftsbury Nordic Center, Craftsbury, VT.
The Notch, Natch
It's been one of those Decembers in north-central Vermont: virtually no snow. But there was a little bit over the weekend, packed down on the Smugglers Notch road in Stowe,…
NCAAs at Stowe
Slightly late putting this post up, but the NCAA nordic ski championships were held at the Trapp Family Lodge in Stowe in March.  The weather for the skate race on the…
Tuck & Roll
Cross-Country ski racers tuck as they glide downhill during the New England Nordic Ski Association Eastern Cup sprints at Craftsbury Nordic Center in Craftsbury, VT, December 18. A gallery of…