Fossil Alpinism

To whet your appetite, watch some Euros on Macho Direct ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M26VUS-D6x0

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

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

Know Before You Go from Trent Meisenheimer on Vimeo .

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

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 Da...

A 45 minute classic workout by headlamp; about 7 kilometers and 800' vertical. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcCJ22jmXNk

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

The return of winter with ice forming on the lake.

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

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 an...

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Another good skate workout on the mixing bowl at Whiteface, the bottom GPS photo records my convoluted traverses.  It was 45 degrees, an...

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

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

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...

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.

We had an overnight up here and the kids climbed all day in balmy 50° weather – unbelievable for the second week in December!

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Yesterday I did a nice 5k classic workout on the bunny slope at Whiteface ... the only game in town.

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The Nordic skiing boom in America during the late 1970s, coincided with the running boom, as well as the the silver medal he won in the 30...

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This is the time of year - praying for snow - when I dip into my skiing related books. Novels like A MEDAL OF HONOR or THE SNOW GODS, and no...

A spectacular day!

I pulled Pete Takeda's book off my shelves. My memory was that the historical portion of the book was highly engaging, but that the acc...

Just a short, relatively flat 5k, somewhere about 50 miles north of Thermopolis, Wyoming.

A nice two hour ski tour to break up the five hour drive to have dinner with alumni.

https://www.nfb.ca/film/jack_rabbit#temp-share-panel

I pulled this terrific novel about biathlon off my shelves, and one of the central story lines was doping. Amazingly, by happenstance this r...

Doing laps with Lucy on skinny skis. If you are a Nordic racer, you gotta do what you gotta do, to get the mileage in.

Over two dozen people skinning up Whiteface by headlamp on Sunday morning.

Click on the link below to view a great website and a wonderful summary. http://www.skimolife.com/journal/2015/10/19/the-essential-clim...

I was sold on this idea quite a few years ago when I met Dane in Chamonix, and saw all these Euros heading off to do laps on big ice routes ...