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The tragic irony of the holiday season is that as much as it invokes merriment and good tidings, it can also produce a degree of chaos. I do not mean to be a Grinch, or a Scrooge, or any other nefarious detractor from the Christmas cheer, but there was certainly an anxious buzz over town. So ... Read More

You can see the pleasant disbelief in the smiling faces shuffling through line, as they are greeted with yet another powder day. Little has to be said; a raise of eyebrows and or a shrug of shoulders suffice. This season can rouse an inkling of guilt, as if we snuck into some forbidden utopia, and ... Read More

Gray light dulled the landscape, transforming the mountain into a Russell Chatham painting where heavy trees stood silhouetted in the mist like wintery apparitions. Snow collected at the cusps of runs, displaced by slashing skis and snowboards. Throughout the day, scattered snowfall assuaged the high tempo of late, lending a sense of calm to this ... Read More

Azure skies cut through the conifers, scattering a patchwork of shadows on the boot-pack up to the Crags from Apres Vous. Ascending, I overtook a Christmas-week-warrior keeled over his poles, sucking air through pursed lips. “It’s all worth it in the end, right?” he managed to ask between breaths. Nodding to the scene around ... Read More

Floating on snow, we achieve perfection; not in the sense of being flawless, but in the sense of being complete. In those serene moments of weightless descent, all wants, past and future, dissolve with the swoop of a deep turn. So today, we were perfect, gliding over the earth, indulging in the all powerful ... Read More