I don’t have the summertime blues. Sure, whenever I’m confronted with an internet security question — What is your favorite sport? — I don’t have to strain to remember what I said last time. It’s always the same. My favorite sport is skiing. Whenever my kids struggle to figure out what to give me … [Read more...]
Why do we love spring skiing? Because it’s really fun
After an interlude of a few years, I returned to the piano this year by reviving my efforts to master Schumann’s “Träumerei” and Chopin’s “Prelude No. 4.” It was back to the classics, though not exactly back to the future. These two pieces were written in the late years of the 1830s. A few weeks … [Read more...]
Skiing in Michigan? It’s a better experience than you might have guessed
Listen carefully, New England: Time to up your game. I’ve just finished a remarkable ski weekend in Michigan, and there are lessons for New England ski areas and ski towns. Skiing in Michigan, you ask? Flat Michigan? Home of Detroit city? Staging ground for Motown music? Midwestern to the core? … [Read more...]
Shribman: A catalog of skiing resolutions to keep in 2024 (or, not)
Of course by the time you read this I might have broken every one of these New Year’s resolutions. But what would a new year be without resolutions? (The answer to the question of course is: February. But let’s proceed anyway.) So here goes: 1. My ski partner and I will not get in the singles … [Read more...]
Shribman: NHL goalies finally learning what skiers already know; laces can’t match the buckle
Charlie Lindgren is an unusual character to appear in a ski magazine. He went to St. Cloud University in Minnesota, but his sport there wasn’t skiing. His athleticism is on display indoors rather than amid the snowstorms and winter winds of downhill skiing. For him, falling is part of the sport, … [Read more...]
Shribman: We should treasure Black Mountain most of all for what it isn’t
The news about Black came out of the blue. And it left me emotionally black-and-blue. Black Mountain, in Jackson, N.H., was never one of the leading ski resorts of North America. Its lifts were antiquated, its grooming episodic, its lodge primitive, its terrain idiosyncratic. Almost nobody got on … [Read more...]
