Fossil Alpinism

A stunning short trailer ... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3-TXEUb97Wk&ebc=ANyPxKqqQyVIMzaD7cyAv-4DSJAza2cktGJiGPbmxckCMKRKFAgY6pikqU...

The classic long distance marathons are routinely won with just double poling. Occasionally sprint courses are just won by double poling. Ho...

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 ye...

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

I will post the link to the race video this afternoon. The order of the finish: 1. Norway 2. USA 3. Finland

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 col...

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

Spine of the South from Overland Collective on Vimeo .

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 ...

Miles Away from Dave MacLeod on Vimeo .

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 fou...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Of course it doesn't include: rock climbing, ice climbing, yoga, rowing machine and treadmill workouts, downhill skiing, or days when I ...

Laps on Pitchoff Right.

http://youtu.be/eTQnKO01cf0

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...

http://youtu.be/eXt2cc2J_p0

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.