Still good skiing on Porter

Steep, steep, steep skiing

A stunning short trailer ...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3-TXEUb97Wk&ebc=ANyPxKqqQyVIMzaD7cyAv-4DSJAza2cktGJiGPbmxckCMKRKFAgY6pikqU_di5EeBbjZI-4ADgSA

Time to get rid of your kick wax?

The classic long distance marathons are routinely won with just double poling. Occasionally sprint courses are just won by double poling. However, now a tough, 15k, Norwegian national championship is won by double poling.

Tracks in the snow

Nordic stud

Hard to imagine this regimen, and that it has a brute like Noah Hoffman thinking that maybe he's a whimp training a mere 1000 hours a year!

Video ... fantastic relay by the American women

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2iiHGIgxSA&sns=em

USA in Second

I will post the link to the race video this afternoon. The order of the finish:

1. Norway
2. USA
3. Finland

Quote of the Week ... Camus

Having just read a column in the New York Times this morning about Albert Camus, I remembered fondly how much I treasured reading him in college. I resolved to re-read him in the coming year. 

Beautiful Mont Blanc Video

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I6UGj9aWCnU&ebc=ANyPxKpErZK1GaPErK7-YvRSYQRFGD7VCpXiV_orNqSnawKiBvPmKViJx6VVZoTqCYD58Jjr4e6WNdj9eXZbxcbCM64HHiXs7A

Guatemalan volcanoes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in7UaUQ9Te4

It feels like winter but where is the snow?

The Andes ... Amazing time-lapse video

Spine of the South from Overland Collective on Vimeo.

Yosemite's Best Ice Climb

NCS is doing its first ice climbing trip of the winter; and people will be flocking to the 'dacks for Mountainfest. Get psyched for ice and watch this climb ...

https://vimeo.com/151586407

Spectacular trail running scenery

Miles Away from Dave MacLeod on Vimeo.

Scored ...

Lucy dropped a bundle of her summer earnings on a new pair of top end classic poles. While I was at High Peaks Cyclery picking them up I found in the sale bin the following: a pair of Intuition boot liners for $20, a Patagonia dress shirt for $15, and a Patagonia vest for $10.

Must have app for the nordic coach!

Slo-mo, deliver audio and text feedback, check joint and limb angles, draw on the video screen ... And it's free.

First NCS trip to Whiteface

Nice day to get some turns in ... getting ready for the Dolomites.

Singing in the rain ... Nordic style!

Skiing was pretty darn good but the weather was pretty darn crappy.

Pretty amazing week for American Nordic skiing

Sophie Caldwell wins a classic sprint and Jessie Diggins wins the 5k freestyle ... go USST.

Nordic skiing is still good

Ueli Steck ... Part 4 ... Classic Alpinist

Fantastic scenery, and a summary of his climbing the 82 summits in the Alps over 4000m ... a wonderful short video ...


http://www.rockandice.com/lates-news/video-ueli-steck-classic-alpinist-part-4-accepting-risk-reward-danger

First prep race of the winter

This was a relatively informal affair moved from Vermont Academy to the Dublin School to take advantage of their snow making. It was a very crowded short loop (.8k), and teams fielded a mix of single gender and co-ed teams in the sprint relay. A fun time was had by all, and several teams stayed to ski until it was dark. Lucy's St. Paul's team had the top co-ed time ... I think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4co8bDPG7ak

First day on snow for the NCS Nordic team

Starting to feel like an old fashioned Adirondack winter!

Strava ... year-end animated summary

Of course it doesn't include: rock climbing, ice climbing, yoga, rowing machine and treadmill workouts, downhill skiing, or days when I simply left my iPhone home. However, it is fun ...

http://2015.strava.com/video/jRLHj9p

First ice of the season

Laps on Pitchoff Right.

Great tour up Whiteface

NYSEF time trial

http://youtu.be/eTQnKO01cf0

Get psyched ... the ice climbing season is about to start

To whet your appetite, watch some Euros on Macho Direct ...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M26VUS-D6x0

Thankfully my snow depression has ended but ...

there may still be folks out there struggling with this issue; I hope Annie Pokorny's analysis will help.

Mount Van Hoevenberg Opened

I skated an easy 10k before heading to work, and maybe 10k more this afternoon!

Avalanche Awareness

Know Before You Go from Trent Meisenheimer on Vimeo.

Looking more wintry ...

More snow expected tonight, but the toll road was scratchy but skiable.

Getting a little anxious ...

Planning a March hut to hut ski trip in the Alps but it seems they are as bad, or maybe, even worse than the Northeast. This picture from Davos is pretty grim.

Nordic Skiing ... after the lifts close

A 45 minute classic workout by headlamp; about 7 kilometers and 800' vertical.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcCJ22jmXNk

Christmas reading

As always, the favored gifts for everyone in the family, were books. I have a lot of great reading to do.

Merry Christmas ...

The return of winter with ice forming on the lake.

Merry Christmas

The temperatures have started to drop, but at 48° it feels like a late September or October!

It was 60° but ...

Still skiing laps before the lifts open at Whiteface. We only did a 45 minute workout, as Lucy had a long day yesterday – an hour on snow and then a two hour rollerski.

How Nordic skiers survive in a bad winter

http://youtu.be/eXt2cc2J_p0

No snow but ...

Another good skate workout on the mixing bowl at Whiteface, the bottom GPS photo records my convoluted traverses.  It was 45 degrees, and I skied 6k with 400'+ vertical, in 40 minutes.

Apogee

Apogée - Memorial film for Andreas Fransson and JP Auclair from Bjarne Salén on Vimeo.

Hardly any snow so ...

I grabbed another book off the shelves and decided just to continue reading about skiing!

Whiteface toll road

Well a two hour ski up-and-down the toll road on 3 inches of snow certainly isn't orgasmic, however it was certainly better than all the other alternatives.

Brutal workout

40 minutes skating in very heavy wet, man-made snow on the mixing bowl at Whiteface ... Heart rate was way up and thought I might puke.

The Death Of Classic Skiing

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