Basecamp podcast: Les Otten talks reviving The Balsams in New Hampshire If anyone can do it, maybe it's Les Otten. The ski industry icon has pulled off plenty of improbable feats over the course of his…
Terracea is aiming to be New Hampshire’s next fashion icon Take a look around the lift line nowadays and you can’t help but wonder if you’ve stumbled into a branding convention, a competition of sorts…
The value of storytelling is at the heart of Kim Jackson’s job at Vermont Adaptive Kim Jackson has spent more than 30 years involved in public relations, marketing and tourism in the outdoor and ski industries. She has worked for…
10 great spots to soak up the sun this spring while skiing Spring reminds us that it’s OK to just “be” sometimes. It is the season when there’s less of a rush for first tracks or a…
Spring skiing: 5 tips to improve your technique Few things compare to the joy of being out on a snow-covered mountain when the sun is shining and the temperatures climb above freezing, often…
Basecamp podcast: The soul of Vermont’s Magic Mountain Not so long ago, it was a rather bleak winter for local ski areas that rely on natural snow. Snowmaking assured there would be skiing…
A Rangeley reunion after a lengthy separation from Saddleback RANGELEY, Maine — As you get closer to Rangeley, via northward way of Route 17, long past Fryeburg and Bethel, the trip turns into its…
Welcome to Winter, Part II: The season we deserve A quick preview of the next two weeks of welcome winter weather swung through New Hampshire's Mount Washington Valley toward the end of February school…
Entry into the world of cross-country skiing isn’t as challenging as you’d think Today’s sermon is on the virtues of the Daily Double. Not the McDonald’s cheeseburger. Not the parimutuel wager on two horse or two greyhound races.…
Mikaela Shiffrin sits alone on World Cup throne Two days before her 28th birthday, Mikaela Shiffrin became the greatest World Cup skier of all time. Swedish legend Ingemar Stenmark was 32 when he…
Cranmore’s annual Hannes Schneider Meister Cup is a tribute to skiing history In advance of preparations for the 26th annual Hannes Schneider Meister Cup, the New England Ski Museum raised the question if it might be time…
There’s still time, so here’s the skinny on planing a trip out West this season One of the benefits of the mega-passes is that their uses stretch from coast to coast and beyond. New England clearly drew the short straw…