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Natural snow is falling, and the high-elevation zones are deep enough for exploring! This will be the official thread for all earned turns in the 2024/2025 season. So, throw on your skins, lock in those heel lifters, and start climbing—the season is here! To kick things off, here’s my mission...

Mount Faito, Monti Lattari, Campania, IT. We opted to take the Funivia Del Faito (Mt. Faito Cable Car) up to the top of the 1,131 meter mountain. The funivia first opened in 1952 and saw modernization updates in 1988 & 2015. Back in 1960 a car detached from the cable and crashed to the...

Anyone here have any experiences living in Albany County and more specifically the Helderberg Region or just general familiarity with the area? Curious about quality of life/lifestyle, commutes, access to the outdoors, community/cultural stuff, nice towns or whatever anyone has on general...

For all you Skimo freaks... https://www.uphillnewengland.org/ Uphill access to Berkshire East, Saddleback, Black Mountain, Bromley, Dartmouth Skiway, Waterville Valley, Big Moose, Tenney Whaleback, Middlebury Skibowl, Mt. Abram & Bolton Valley. All for the low low price of $185 and your sweat...

Question for Hudson Valley residents, down-staters, city types, New Jerseyans and why the hell not, Long Islanders. Anyone else noticing weekend traffic on the NY-State Thruway has gotten significantly worse in the past two or so years? Sure I may be part of the problem but regardless I've been...

Currently in the process of wedding planning, found a pretty cool perk at one of the venues my partner and I just toured. The Warfield House Inn is owned by the Schaefer family and as a gift to couples who have their wedding at the Inn they offer two free season passes with access to Berkshire...

Yesterday I got a call from one of my close skiing friends, "where we riding tomorrow?". I chuckled him off, "I'm sure there will be plenty of snow, AT ELEVATION" I responded knowing he lacked touring equipment and would only be looking to ride lifts. I wrote the day off, I had just planted the...

Saturday was the obvious choice. Reports at Belleayre were calling for 46 degrees and partly sunny Saturday while Superbowl Sunday was looking like battling crowds on boiler plate. A leisurely 7:30 departure from NNJ had us arriving in the lot just before 9:30 after driving through rain on 28...

I made a mistake, I skipped Mondays storm in favor of extra sleep and the avoidance of white knuckle driving conditions. The concession I made to myself was that I would get out later in the week. I had a loose plan to head to Belleayre today, when I woke up this morning at 6:30 and peaked out...

Can anyone here speak the reason why some resorts allow overnight RV and vehicle parking and others don't? There are obvious reasons like obstructing snowplows on powder days, and perhaps the tourist piece with wanting to encourage visitors to spend their money at lodges and hotels in the area...

Just saw an add that best prices for Epic are ending September 6th, I honestly have not been paying too much attention to other deadlines and know this is a group of early birds when it comes to purchasing passes. Anyway the anxiety is building and I know I will need to commit to a pass or...

Anyone else here use Ride with GPS? I've been making an effort recently to map and ride more interesting routes and that try to weave together a story of history, geography and local culture that you can get a sense of while riding. Being able to upload a GPX file onto my Garmin and ride a new...

With the season winding down and many of you seemingly enthusiastic to talk about things like cabins, land, recreation properties and the like, I figured I would throw this one out into the cosmos for fun and maybe some insightful information. I've been saying for sometime now that when the...

Seeing as the warm weather probably has many of you thinking about your mountain bikes, I want to make a plug for a mountain bike advocacy group I serve on the boards of. Palisades MTB is a group of cycling enthusiasts with our sights set on establishing spectacular mountain bike trails in the...

Hook Mountain State Park has some nice natural glades and about about 350ft-400ft of vertical on north facing slopes. I skinned it twice 2/8, 2/2 when snowpack was at least 25" or more. LOTS of rocks and some old stone walls from former pasture that I imagine would require at least a 20" base to...

Long time lurker, first time poster. With 3-5" in the local forecast and a "holiday weekend" looming, my partner and I had a choice to make, ride or not ride? After far too much time ignoring my work emails in favor of weather.gov I made the call; downstate under the lights it was...