Fossil Alpinism

Mikaela Shiffrin is in first place and the second run is about to begin. On a different note, my daughter Lucy had her second top ten this...

Just missed a Lucky Loser spot into semifinals.

I have had a few Patagonia items repaired, that frankly were way past any reasonable warranty. Who knew that that operation was such a big ...

Lake Placid is hosting the 2017 Nordic Junior National Championships.  Lucy finished 9th in the U20 women's 5k skate with a time of 1...

Unfortunately I'll be in China; hopefully next year I can do it.

Unfortunately, the number of sessions may be up, but I believe the length of those sessions is down ... work has been killing me this year!

I skinned up Whiteface this morning, and even in the sun it was pretty darn cold. Tomorrow morning it will be -12 with a high of -1 degrees.

This will be one of Lucy's favorite days. Teams arrive tomorrow. The first races are Monday.

A week-long project about ski history dug into our archives for video and photographs going back to the 1940s at school. They found this ph...

Lucy finished her freshman college season with a 9th place finish in the 15k skate ... reaching her goal of both a top ten distance and top ...

An excellent short essay ... https://www.adventure-journal.com/2017/02/opinion-lands-fight-utah-symbolism/

The rain-sleet-heavy snow brought down all kinds of trees.

and still no word when it will be back. However, the temperatures dropped we got several inches of snow, and it looks like winter again.

But beautiful and intelligent despite her outfit for chores!

What a great start for the USST; silver and bronze medals in the sprints.

The sugaring season has started!

Several days of very warm temperatures are reducing the snowpack. And although all 50k are tracked they postponed the loppet. I assume there...

Klister signals the coming of spring and the end to winter. Klister is messy as hell and hard to get off your skis and hands. Klister needs...

A short video about Saturday's team sprints; Lucy gets a quick start and has a good day. http://vimeo.com/204755982

This week we had the 34th annual intermural competition. When the school started in 1938 skiing was a much simpler sport. Whether you cros...

One of my trustees came over with some buddies to take advantage of the awesome new snow ... unfortunately I had to work.

Back in the old days, ski racers competed in four events. For the past 34 years at NCS we honor that tradition with a skimeister intramural...

India, one of Lucy's buddies at SLU is a film major.  She also gets paid by EISA to do the weekly video summaries of the college car...

Excellent article ...  https://www.adventure-journal.com/2017/02/get-paid-make-art-public-lands/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/travel/pyeongchang-south-korea-skiing-2018-winter-olympics.html?hpw&rref=travel&action=click&...

In the 3x5k skate relay she had the 12th fastest leg of all collegians. In the classic 5k on Saturday she finished 22nd, closer to the big d...

An excellent short essay ... bottom line ... Changing hearts and minds about climate change is not about the facts, it is about the values. ...

https://vimeo.com/198306286

https://www.adventure-journal.com/2017/02/outdoor-industry-flexes-muscle-utah-public-lands/

http://www.climbing.com/news/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-bouldering-grades/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_SqK9OJyrHo&ebc=ANyPxKr6h59NmOuR7LiovArh60iNh9jFlmtaQGgdFSF172W_tx6E-10cuVP4pHk8-NSbXeUb9NIikz7ctN-buaNoOp...

Here she is wining her quarterfinal heat.

Now, almost 40 years ago!

Trying to run once a week so that the transition in the spring won't be so painful.