Skiing

By Iseult Devlin T’is the season to be shopping for your favorite ski or snowboarder. For winter 2024, new technology ranges from the BOA Fit System for Alpine boots to the Gore-Tex ePE Membrance introduced last season but is now more widely available in gloves, footwear, and apparel from popular

By Brian E. Clark When Steve Jones was growing up on Cape Cod — that hook-shaped peninsula which juts into the Atlantic Ocean from the southeast corner of Massachusetts – he was certain he’d do something creative with his life that involved the outdoors. He’s achieved that in spades, and

By Everett Potter The latest news in the ski world is the marriage of a 21st-century tech billionaire and a troubled ski mountain. In one fell swoop, Reed Hastings, the co-founder of Netflix, has made a $100 million investment in Powder Mountain, Utah, the country’s largest resort. Hastings, who stepped

By Everett Potter Deer Valley Resort, Utah’s glamorous luxury ski resort high in the Wasatch Mountains and one of America’s top resorts, has announced that it will double in size. The news came from Alterra Mountain Company, the operating company for Deer Valley. Deer Valley will add an astonishing 3,700 acres

By David McKay Wilson South America’s largest ski resort was thumping this August when I fulfilled a lifelong dream to find a dollop winter on a summer vacation to the Andes in Argentina. At Cerro Catedral Alta Patagonia, Latin music throbbed from the summit lodge, skiers and boarders made wide

By David Goodman I came to ski. But first, I had to stare. I got off the Peak Express chairlift at Whistler Blackcomb, mouth agape, and took in the scenery. A magnificent landscape of snow, ice and rock sprawled for as far as I could see. Directly in front of

Story and photos by Neil E. Wolkodoff There are ski resorts and there are ski areas. Many ski hills have transitioned into full-blown resorts in the last 30 years. In Colorado, one has remained true to that heritage of great skiing: Loveland Ski Area. Suppose you have driven west to

By Bart Beeson “In the age of cookie-cutter ski resorts, this is New Hampshire skiing,” says Tom Eastman, local ski historian and journalist. His sentiment summed up my recent skiing experience at two of New Hampshire’s independent resorts: King Pine Ski Area and Gunstock Mountain Resort. King Pine is a family-owned

  By Matt Johanson Years of cross country skiing should prepare a reasonably fit person for a half-day on downhill terrain. So I thought, anyway. Actually, the steep slopes of Austria’s Hintertux Glacier daunted me and my prior alpine experience seemed a distant and unhelpful memory. And to be honest,

By Brian E. Clark When Davy Ratchford was a boy in Ireland, the idea of running a major ski resort in the United States was absolutely nowhere on his radar. “For starters, there’s no snow skiing in Ireland. And besides, we grew up incredibly poor in a neighborhood called Glasnevin