The Brave Ski Mom

Building a new generation of skiers and snowboarders.

Powder

What’s The Forecast? OpenSnow Personalizes Your Weather

by

I’m weather-obsessed. Because I ski,  I’ve always wanted to know when and where it was going to snow. Then I got interested in rain. Would a lovely summer morning turn into thunderstorms by afternoon? Soon, I was turning on the Weather Channel to keep myself company when my boys napped. Then, I discovered NOAA Weather […]

Great Lines, Tons of Pow: Backcountry Skiing On Colorado’s Grand Mesa

by

“If I ever take you to the best lines, you’ll have to be blindfolded and taken in by snowmobile,” my friend Ann told me. We were up on the Grand Mesa in Western Colorado and she was teaching me to backcountry ski. If you’re a reader of The Brave Ski Mom, you may recall that […]

My Adventures In Ski Demo Land

by

I have never been a gear junkie. I like good gear and good performance — a good bike, comfy hiking boots and, of course, good skis. But I am not one to follow the latest trends or to study advances in ski technology. While I might like to, and while I do know from my […]

On Road Trips, Tall Tales and the Nation’s First Skier, 2010

by

At the top of Vail Pass, I got out to throw a couple of snowballs. There were only two cars in the rest area parking lot: us and a tele-skier, cranking the Dead and putting skins on his skis. We had to talk to him. Turns out that his name is Jeff Cricco and he’s a photographer for Powder and a blogger for Freeskier. In our minds he is also the season’s “first skier.”