I can’t resist interrupting this blog’s summer vacation to mention three good things that happened yesterday.
1. Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the creation of the Internet, without which blogging about skiing would be impossible.
2. I realized I escaped from the Denver airport the night before on one of the last flights before the big [...]

Travel and other obligations will keep this blog off the air until ski season really starts, but thoughts of skiing are never far from the center of my universe.
I just returned home from several weeks in Colorado and was catching up on the local newspapers when I spied a piece in which the reporter bought [...]

I just read a report on Firsttracksonline stating that the Aspen Skiing Company signed on to a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal advocating for “both capping and putting a price for the first time ever on the pollution that causes global warming.”
I applaud ASC, but have to ask, where are Vail Resorts, [...]

In a previous post, There Goes the Neighborhood, I wondered about the future of the Yellowstone Club now that economic sanity is being valued even by people with enough money to live frivolously indefinitely. Has all the bad PR and gloating by critics and schadenfreudenistas permanently branded the YC as a new kind of toxic [...]

This has been a good news- bad news few days for those of us who love winter. Yesterday, an American President finally stepped up and told the car makers they had to improve gas mileage averages for their car and truck fleets ( meaning-less importing of foreign oil, less pollution, few dollars spent at the [...]

A couple of days ago I posted the latest NASA map showing all the areas on the Earth’s surface that were either warmer than normal or cooler than normal in March 09 and it was a depressing map for skiers to look at with warming areas covering far more of the Earth than cooling areas.
We [...]

I finally got around to checking out NASA’s global temperature monitoring data for March of 2009 and sadly March’s temperature map shows a continuation of this winter’s above average temperatures across most the vast majority of the Earth’s land masses. Only Alaska and the Canadian Rockies, out of all the Earth’s ski domains,  got a [...]

What might Flint, Michigan have to do with the future of skiing? Maybe a report on the radio yesterday about Flint’s efforts to become a smaller city will prove to be predictive of a not to distant in the future happening in the world of some ski resort communities.
What is Flint trying to do? The [...]

Check out this account of a recent avalanche in Val’d’isere. Three airbag carrying skiers were caught in an avalanche and the two who deployed their bags were not buried. Luckily, the one who didn’t deploy his bag was dug out and rescued too. Why didn’t he pull the trigger? He doesn’t know. I bet he [...]

With lift-riding skiing over with for this season, and avalanche danger usually less of a problem,  April is a great month to head into the backcountry for excellent spring corn skiing, and often some very fine powder skiing as well. Of course we need to get up earlier in the morning to beat the heat, [...]