By Martin Griff During the past three Thanksgiving weekends, the planet’s best women skiers, and huge crowds of their fans, gathered at the “Beast of the East” for the Audi FIS World Cup. I was feeling a little sad about missing the World Cup ski races at Killington Resort in central Vermont last month . […]
Ski Helmets Are Cool (Helmet Fitting, Safety and a Pro-Tec Giveaway)
Helmets are cool. If they didn’t used to be — and they didn’t — they certainly are now. When I look back to early posts I wrote about ski helmet safety, I was clearly trying to make a case as to why parents and children should wear helmets. No more. In fact, the latest data […]
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Ski Town Bozeman
Every fall and early winter, ski magazines and newspapers, websites and video channels share ski travel information, often packaged with all sorts of claims about being “the best” or the “next great thing.” Today, I’m lending my voice to the chorus. But my claims aren’t hyperbolic. They’re for real. Bozeman: The Next Best Ski Town? Let’s […]
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That Time When I Competed Against Mikaela Shiffrin
Yesterday afternoon, while slogging away at my computer, daydreaming of snow and skiing (aren’t I always?) a friend tagged me on Facebook. She let me know that I’d been nominated in Round One of Elevation Outdoors Annual Colorado’s Resident Badass Competition in the Snow category. Mikaela Shiffrin is nominated as well. I have no idea […]
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Not The Mama: State Line Straddling Ski Resorts
By Martin Griff From the useless trivia department comes this oddity . . . just three U.S. ski areas spread themselves across two state boundaries. While you try to figure out which are the two-state resorts, allow me to boast that until proven otherwise, I am the only human on earth who has skied all […]
