Ober Gatlinburg sits adjacent to Mt. Harrison, with a commanding view of the LeConte Massif and the Great Smoky Mountains. Ober is just one of six ski areas within a…
Brian Duy sent in this great trip report from the first part of their journey at Snowshoe. The annual Duy/Chamberlin family ski trip has begun! The Duy’s left Fredericksburg VA…
Last week, I was feeling a little under the weather. Seems like I always get a little winter illness, annually, around this time of year. On Sunday though, I woke…
This week, Wolf Ridge Ski Resort received more accumulation than the rest of the season . . . combined. Naturally, I wanted to get some of this “freshness”. In most…
As legend has it, one of my ole ski-mountaineering college buddies, from CU-Boulder, invented the word . . . Riking: (verb) A combination of Running and Hiking. Usually done when…
Well, what a great start to the season, and it’s technically not even (astronomical) winter yet! Although, “the nerd in the room” might argue with you on that, since meteorological…
Day 2.75 – Sierra Nevada Brewery On Thursday, went to the premier of the TGR film Winterland, at Sierra Nevada Brewery. If you’ve never been to Sierra Nevada, they call…
Day 1 – Cataloochee Usually the prep for the first day of skiing feels like a bad case of Alzheimers, with the excitement of Christmas morning. Picking through the closet…
Joe Stevens just submitted his annual "Snowies" column. This was his sixth annual installment of the "awards" or verbal accolades for the region’s ski areas. You can see Joe’s comments…
The 2010-2011 Ski and Snowboarding season will go down as one of the craziest, wildest rides of any winter season in recent memory. Many of the region’s ski resorts were…