Late on a gray Sunday afternoon, hiking up a freshly brush-hogged trail beneath the white, rimed peak of Vermont’s Mt. Mansfield, a friend asked how I planned to get through this winter’s darkness. A second-year… Read More »The Dark Times: A Note from the Editor
Was he an ice skater? Possibly. A skier? No. But in the opening line of A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens easily could have been describing the progress of last winter: “It was the… Read More »Season of Change: A Note from the Editors
As I was sitting at my desk, getting ready to send my second edit of Slide the Keweenaw back to Hansi Johnson with a couple comments, a subject line in my inbox caught my eye:… Read More »Setting Tracks and Changing Lanes
A couple years ago, at a season launch party for our sister publication Backcountry Magazine, I bumped into a craft alpine ski maker who I’d worked with at a couple events at the time. “Oh,… Read More »Real Skiing
