Building a Ski Cabin

It’s no secret that flexibility is an important ingredient in a great ski season. And there are a bunch of impediments to ski flexibility including but not limited to; distance from the mountains, the cost of skiing, job commitments and the availability of last minute lodging.

ski cabin

Our solution to two of these issues was building NYSkiBlog HQ in the Adirondacks. Our little building helps us keep the cost of skiing down and give us the lodging flexibility to get 30+ skidays each year.

Recently another fanatical snow rider asked me if I would share what I learned doing this project. This piece details some of what we learned building the cabin.

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Two Lifts OK’d at Big Tupper

Excerpt from a piece by Rick Karlin in the Albany Times Union:

A group of snow-loving volunteers has gotten the go-ahead to re-open part of the shuttered Big Tupper ski area in Tupper Lake. Area Residents Intent on Saving their Economy, or ARISE has approval from the Adirondack Park Agency to run a chairlift and T-bar at the resort this winter.

The area has been closed since 1999 but since then a group of investors has proposed re-opening the mountain along with an extensive real estate development. Plans for the development are still with the APA and have been criticized by environmentalists.

Tree Skiing and the Big Jay Cut

Big Jay Cut
photo courtesy Vermont Life

Vermont Life just published an article on the effect of tree skiing on the woods.

I never thought twice about the impact of tree skiing until the Big Jay Cut. It’s definitely hard to face the fact that something that I live for, could be harmful.

Naturally occurring tree skiing exists in very limited quantities in the east. If you are talking about tree skiing on today’s alpine, AT or telegear. At today’s speeds. On most pitches, the spacing to ski at those speed just isn’t there.

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