We got some natural snow, and enough cold weather for the ski areas to make snow. Saturday the whole family went to Pats Peak for lift serve skiing. They had their bunny hills and three real trails open. The surface snow was surprisingly decent in the morning. We did some technique practice, but our fun […]
The only skiing anywhere near us is on man made snow. On Sunday, Tyson, Isaac, and I acquired skate skis. This is the first set for Tyson and Isaac, and an upgrade for me. We tried them out on Jackson’s 1 kilometer of man made snow. Ticket price vs snow quality was pretty good. Tyson […]
The NH AMC put on another telemark clinic for the ski leaders. These really are a great way to take the rust off at the beginning of the season. We had Keith Rodney as an instructor for a second time. He gave a different perspective than we’ve had previous years with Jim Tasse. I think […]
This winter, being a terrible winter, it poured rain Friday and then dropped to 5F overnight. With a forecast like that, I expected solid ice. You can’t ski on ice with most cross country skis, so Sarah moved our AMC trip from Sugar Hill to a groomed cross country ski center. The one registered family […]
It is late January, and it finally snowed in New Hampshire. Tyson and I were both still feeling listless from covid, so we were trying to motivate ourselves for a short local ski. Then Sarah and Mike invited us north to better snow and to come try the Bear Notch Ski Touring Center for the […]
We rented a hotel room in Gorham for the first weekend in April. From 4 days out, it looked like the weekend might be great. But as the weather forecast came closer and closer into view, Saturday’s forecast stayed below freezing. And Sunday, the mountain forecast got above freezing but with 50mph winds in the […]
I was scheduled to co-lead an AMC trip with Erik. Normally that would mean lots of organization and some coaching. But Erik did all the screening. And the folks who actually came were all regulars. So this turned into just a fun ski together. We had planned to ski the White Mountain National Forest Beaver […]
For the second day of our mini-vacation, we met up with Cheri at Jackson. Isaac and Cheri both like skate skiing, but I figured a whole day of skate skiing would be too much for him. So we did half the day classic and half the day skating. The previous day, we had cross country […]
Skiing at a lift serve resort or Nordic touring center.
