Whiteface: Spring in Full Swing

Posted on by Robert

With the end of the season rapidly approaching, I’m looking to leech every bit of winter out for as long as I can. Farah and I have had success in the past hitting up Whiteface for sunny spring laps.

Freeway

Despite inclement weather the day before The Face was holding strong with a trail count in the 70s. Our plan was to ski the weekend, with the Sunday lining up to be the ultimate spring day.

Saturday conditions were good if still firm and midwinter-ish on the upper mountain. Sunday was exactly as expected, a perfect bluebird day. Temperatures made into the high 30’s across the mountain and the corn harvest was in full effect.

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Cross-Country World Cup Finals in Lake Placid

Posted on by Peter Minde

“This is a proper ski race,” one British athlete said to me in the mixed zone.

“It’s a marathon, not a sprint,” my editor warned me.

And I got two scoops this week! I’m almost a real reporter! We’ll get to that later.

As we approached the World Cup finals weekend in Lake Placid, Nordic Insights, another news outlet I write for, made plans to cover the action. Being local, I’d be boots on the ground all weekend. My colleague Adele would come from Yale University on Saturday. I’d write up all the men’s races. Adele and Gavin, my editor, would write the women’s races.

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Killington: The Beast for Beginners

Posted on by James Michaud

For someone who’s been skiing the Northeast for 25 years, I have an embarrassing admission – until this week, I’d never skied at Killington. The biggest ski area east of the Rockies, a place that looms large in every East Coaster’s mental map, had always been on my list, but somehow never happened.

view of Killington Peak

I’d skied nearby at Pico, read countless trip reports, articles, and lively forum threads about Big K, but never experienced it firsthand. That finally changed last week, though not in the way I would’ve expected, as my family’s four-day road trip to Vermont was designed for my son, who hadn’t been on skis in nearly seven years.

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