All Posts by Features Category

Features

Filter: Recent | Past 30 days | All Dates
View:
 
Filter: Recent | Past 30 days | All Dates
View:
0 0 votes

The College of Skiing -- East vs. West

by W.O. Staff on 03/03/2008 06:00 0 comments , 204 views
Categories: Living Here, Where-To, Skiing-Alpine,Nordic,BC, Features
Tags: mission ridge, stevens pass, downhill skiing, vermont skiing, new england skiing, east vs. west
Two years ago, I was forced to abandon my non-committal attitude about the future and consider colleges. After weeks of perusing college guides, I narrowed down the list of possibilities based on a few factors that were non-negotiable: I wanted a small school with a curriculum that was academically rigorous, a small town, an international outlook…and I needed to be able to ski.
read more
0 0 votes

Confessions of Foothills Man

by Andy Dappen on 01/28/2008 16:18 0 comments , 153 views
Categories: Where-To, Stupid Fun, Profiles, Features
Tags: wenatchee foothills, backcountry skiing

I met him a few miles west of Saddle Rock. I was snowshoeing uphill through a foot of week-old snow—plodding. He was weaving parallel turns through the sagebrush—gliding. He caught sight of me when we were a hundred yards apart and rounded a turn to a stop. He stood there deciding how to confront this queer animal contaminating his ski run.

...
read more
0 0 votes

Skiing a Double Marathon

by W.O. Staff on 01/01/1980 00:00 0 comments , 20 views
Categories: Where-To, Stupid Fun, Skiing-Alpine,Nordic,BC, Features
Tags: nordic skiing, groomed snowmobile trails, chelan, manson, skate skiing, antillon lake

Lief Carlsen writes about sking the groomed snowmobile trails above Lake Chelan and Manson. “I momentarily dared to hope that grooming might grace a 46-mile loop. If so, that loop might offer mile after mile of untrammeled skate skiing through rugged mountains. The right guy on the right skis  might do that loop in one day."  Click here to read.

...
read more
0 0 votes

Toughest Race on the Planet?

by W.O. Staff on 01/01/1980 00:00 0 comments , 0 views
Categories: Travel Stories, Features

Primal Quest -- a 10-day endurance race entailing mountaineering, running, cross-country trekking, biking, whitewater kayaking and more--has a bit of hubris in billing itself as the toughest human endurance competition. How hard is it?

read more