Taken to the extreme, my friend Gary Bard calls ‘em picnic tours. Start with a bottle of wine in your pack, add a dash of romance, and take the woman you tango with on a ski tour to the backside of beyond.
Category: Ramblings
Jan 03 2011
Review: A Life Ascending
Everybody knows that ski movies are to skiing what porn is to sex; visually stimulating, but nothing compared to the real thing. It’s why I tend to avoid them both. Why bother when the real thing is so infinitely superior? When it comes to movies I want more than a tickling of my visual cortex, …
Jan 01 2011
Telemark Skier Magazine #16
If you’re of the free heel persuasion and want to have some telemark stoke handy on your coffee table for friends to peruse, or for motivating yourself to get off the couch and onto the slopes one can hardly go wrong with the current issue of Telemark Skier magazine. The second and final issue of …
Dec 23 2010
Watchin’ the Weather: Snow-Forecast.com
Snowhounds love to watch the weather. Not just to see what’s coming, or know when to enjoy what it has wrought, but to go out and embrace it while it’s happening. It’s part of why I like skinning up in a storm. You’re totally immersed in a swirling dance of snowflakes. No matter whether they’re …
Dec 14 2010
More snow comin’
Awoke to the sound of rain this morning. When it rains in the summer in Tahoe I love it. When it rains in the winter in Tahoe, I’ve come to accept it. The bungalow we rent is at 5850′ feet. It is low enough in elevation that when warm storms come in, they manifest themselves …
Oct 26 2010
Telemark Skier Magazine #15
The first thing you should notice is the cover. It’s illustrated, a choice that isn’t used very often in the world of print. It certainly creates a fresh look and this cover goes a long way towards shedding the vestiges of the past and demonstrating the pride of the young telemarkers schooling pinheads from the …
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