We all know closing day at your favorite ski area happens not because there’s not enough snow to ski, but because there’s not enough people for the area to warrant spinning the lifts. Colorado and Utah routinely suffer ironic […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Just in case: Sochi storing snow for 2014 Olympics Sochi organizers are gathering up 16 million cubic feet of snow and trying to keep it from melting away this summer as a contingency ahead of the Winter Games, which take […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
CRESTED BUTTE — Like most of the competitors at last weekend’s Subaru Freeride Series event, Conor Pelton got his start chasing gates. Pelton, who won the men’s division of the two-day extreme skiing competition, grew up in Michigan and was […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
DSJ posed the following dilemma: “Was going to do a guide on Vail, but the only thing we could find extreme about the place was the snobs and ski bunnies…” Editorial reply by W.T.Evans (Home Mountain – Brandywine / Flatville, OH) It’s […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Condo Cuisine from the “brave ski mom”: If you’re staying in a hotel, you don’t have many choices, so you’ll be eating out. My best advice is to make reservations for the coming week as soon as you arrive. But […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sales of snowboards and snowboard equipment have slipped 21% over the last four years, while sales of skis have climbed 3% in the same period, according to SnowSports Industries America, a trade group that tracks the $3.5-billion snow sports and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Loosely based on The Complete Encyclopedia of Skiing, Third Edition, by Bob Barnes, this project presents a brief and concise glossary of many common skiing and ski teaching concepts, including both contemporary and historical terms. It is by no means […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From discounts to rentals to special programs, there are ways for families to save. “Too old” and “too expensive” are two of the main reasons people choose to stay away from ski and snowboard slopes. Not much can be done […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Happy New Year from all the hard working folks at the DSJ WHQ. Hope 2012 was good to you and everyone is enjoying a great holiday season. And speaking of another year in going down in the books, we dug this little […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…