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Photo of the Week: Freedom of the Hills

admin — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:30:29 +0000

Since returning last week from a month long, bicycle-powered skiing adventure in the Alps (more posts HERE), we’ve been thinking a lot about the incredible freedom, access and mobility that bicycles and camping make possible. (Caution: If you throw skiing into the mix, too, you might not ever come back.) During our recent adventure in [...]

2 Wheels, 2 Planks: High Passes, Big Moon, Spring in Switzerland

admin — Tue, 08 May 2012 16:16:40 +0000

Powder skiing during the 40-50cm storm that nearly broke the 20-day stretch of daily/nightly snowfall that welcomed us to the Alps. Between sunny days, snow fell for two more nights as we rolled east to Austria and Italy. Skiing as the 70-80 mph gusts of a good old fashioned foehn wind blew in, among the [...]

Photo of the Week: Somewhere in the South Tirol

admin — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:16:48 +0000

After pedaling our bikes out of Switzerland’s beautiful Engadin Valley and into the Austria-Italy border region, a week long corn cycle is luring us higher than usual into the mountains of the South Tirol and Ortler zones. Down in the valleys, fruit trees are blooming, cows are being turned out to pasture and people of [...]

2 Wheels, 2 Planks: Mid-Winter in the Rhaetian Alps

admin — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:39:36 +0000

If we didn’t take the snowflakes flying among the budding birches and blooming daffodils upon our arrival to Zurich back on April 7, we should have. For all but one of the last 18 days, beautiful fresh snow has been falling from the skies above us in the Swiss-Austrian-Italian Alps. And this past Sunday may [...]

2 Wheels, 2 Planks: Heftiger Schneefall

admin — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 18:21:08 +0000

Relaxing back at camp in Switzerland’s Engadine Valley – Credit: EmberPhoto We’re pretty sure that’s German for “heavy snowfall”, and although we’ve managed to score some beautiful sunshine-filled days in the alpine over the last ten days in eastern Switzerland’s Engadine Valley, heftige Schneefall has been the norm here (stay tuned for some more photos [...]

2 Wheels, 2 Planks: Snowbound near St. Moritz

admin — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:05:32 +0000

After landing in Zurich tempted to pedal our way straight for the mountains, a forecasted major winter storm had us throwing our bikes on a train bound for the Engadine Valley in eastern Switzerland – home to St. Moritz, several world class ski areas and endless backcountry skiing options. Our plan also meant experiencing one [...]

2 Wheels, 2 Planks: Bound for the Alps

admin — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:04:48 +0000

It wasn’t until recently – like only two weeks ago! recently – that we really felt like the rugged Alps of central Europe were even remotely suitable for the kind of bicycle-powered skiing adventure that we have grown to love over the years. After all, the Alps are laden with steep mountain passes that don’t [...]

Six Years Ago This Week: Remembering Doug Coombs

admin — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:27:27 +0000

Six years ago this week, the Northeast-bred, steep skiing pioneer, Doug Coombs, passed away while skiing and attempting to rescue a friend near his home in La Grave, France. After skiing in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine as a child, Coombs left a lasting mark on the adventure skiing world with his exploratory descents in [...]

Photo of the Week: Tasty Turns with Tom

admin — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:58:09 +0000

Another heavy dusting of fresh snow arrived in the mountains near AdventureSkier headquarters (central Vermont) overnight, and with blue skies overhead and a fresh breeze out of the north, the mountains were calling more than usual early Monday. As much as we’ve loved riding lifts through the closing days at of our local ski areas [...]

Photo of the Week: Still Skiing?

admin — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 22:28:26 +0000

While the recent heat wave and corresponding spring-skiing madness may have drained many skiers of their energy and motivation to continue embracing this whacky ski season, the fact is that there is still some great skiing out there. For one thing, there’s hardly a soul out skiing, which makes for empty runs and a nice [...]