It’s cute to hear some weather folk in Massachusetts celebrate the “end of winter,” touting the dearth of snow the Commonwealth has received during the month of February. It’s like they just got here or something. Any New Englander who has been around the block at least a few times knows with … [Read more...]
Picked-up pieces from a school vacation week tour of New Hampshire ski areas…
Some observations from a week that brought me and my three children wandering around New Hampshire on skis... — Truth be told, if we were creating this itinerary prior to the season, it probably wouldn’t have been this diverse. Alas, it was somewhere in the midst of the first-day showing of “Rise … [Read more...]
Sugarloaf joins the list of big Maine developments in skiing and riding
Can’t let a week go past this month without receiving news of a major development in the Maine ski industry. Following in the footsteps of sister Boyne Resort property Sunday River, which announced a 10-year development project earlier this month, Sugarloaf Mountain Resort released its own … [Read more...]
Social media and the reality of your crowded ski area
School vacation weeks are around the corner, and you know what that means. Your favorite ski resort is going to have visitors. Gasp. Since it seemed to come as a shock to many skiers and riders that they would actually have to wait in these new-fangled implementations called lift lines … [Read more...]
Lights, camera, ‘North Country’
Anthony Lahout never expected to be rubbing elbows with Hollywood elite like Brad Pitt and Scarlett Johansen. Yet, that’s the situation the New Hampshire native found himself in last month at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, where “North Country,” the short film he helped produce over the last … [Read more...]
Ski Bradford celebrates 70 years fueling local snow sports passion
It’s Christmas Eve, 1949, and Boston Globe skiing columnist Pat Harty has news of seven new winter sports development areas opening in Massachusetts. Hardy’s “Stem Turns” column gave the details from that winter’s Massachusetts Ski Guide, which listed 68 areas dedicated to skiing use in the … [Read more...]
Trying our best to prove the groundhog wrong about winter (but it isn’t easy)
Stupid groundhog. Not that we really want to give Punxsutawney Phil any sort of credence with his prediction last weekend of an early spring, but our weather this winter isn’t exactly helping the cause. Thanks to snowmaking capabilities, the skiing and riding season hasn’t been a bust … [Read more...]
New England native is raising the bar on the ski-buying experience
The way former Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk figures it, if there were some truth to everybody he has encountered over the years saying that he or she were there the night he hit the famed, game-winning home run in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series, then Fenway Park’s attendance would have been … [Read more...]
The reality of seeing Saddleback return in 2020 has gotten more likely
Could this (finally) be it? Ever since its lifts shuttered after the 2015 season, the hopes of one day seeing Maine’s Saddleback Mountain return as a vibrant skiing and riding destination have swelled like the tide. In 2017, the Berry family, which had owned the ski area since 2003 and … [Read more...]
Super Bowl Sunday ski deals and events around New England
It’s been four years since the last time the New England Patriots didn’t play on Super Bowl Sunday, which might have you looking for something to do in lieu of preparing that killer artichoke dip all afternoon. Super Bowl Sunday has long been a marketing challenge for ski areas, doubly so over … [Read more...]
‘Perfect storm’ brings record crowds (and some grumbling about them)
Maybe the first sign that this would be a hearty day for business on the slopes of New England was during the morning drive through Boston. While I wouldn’t exactly liken the traffic in the Tip O’Neil Tunnel as anything comparative to the typical, weekday snarl, nor was the amount of cars on the … [Read more...]
Loon Mountain Resort to install first eight-person lift in the East
Maybe you’re asking yourself, “Who needs an eight-person lift?” But anybody who has been to Loon on a mid-winter Saturday morning would probably understand that the Lincoln, N.H. resort is the perfect place to introduce the first chairlift of its kind in New England. Loon Mountain Resort … [Read more...]
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