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As always, our favorite downhill destinations have been busy all summer upgrading trails and snowmaking, freshening up mid-mountain lodges, adding new chairlifts and ticket deals, even planning for following seasons.
Here’s a quick tour of what’s…

Two Low-Cost Multi-Destination Passes to Check Out
Indy Pass and the new Snow Pass offer value along with multiple choices at smaller, less crowded areas, including many family-owned and operated. While both offer an alternative to super-sized corporate owned resorts and passes, they are quite different.
Here’s…

Snowboarding Pioneer Paul Alden Passes at Age 89
He was one of the winter sports pioneers who put competitive snowboarding on the map, first in the USA, then internationally. Paul Prince Alden was 89. Even if you don’t know his name, you know that what he helped create is now one of the most popular…

Ski Strong, Ski Long: A Chiropractor’s Guide to Preventing Injuries on the Slopes
The sensation is universal for skiers. That crisp mountain air, the stunning vista of snow-covered peaks, and the pure joy of a perfect turn. As both a lifelong skier and a chiropractor, my mission is to help my fellow enthusiasts, especially those of…

Portillo Same Time Next Year
If skiing is in your blood, every season is ski season. So, if you’ve thought about heading to South America for a summer ski adventure, then Portillo, Chile, is the place for you. High in the Andes Mountains, with gorgeous sunny days and uncrowded…

“Senior Skills” seminar provides useful tips for one’s technique quiver
As a certified ski instructor I’m required to take a biennial clinic in which we upgrade our teaching and skiing skills.
The Professional Ski Instructors of America, or PSIA, offers a broad menu of topics to focus on. Having just turned 71, the “Senior…

Recycled Water, Real Snow: Big Sky’s Path to a Greener Ski Season
In February I was fortunate to be at Big Sky Resort in southwestern Montana with the 70+ Ski Club. For the last decade or so Big Sky had been working its way up my short list of resorts to knock off. After several years of less than desirable conditions…

Tips and Tactics for Spring Skiing
The days are longer, the sun is brighter, the temperatures are warmer and the snow is softer. Ah, yes, spring skiing is special, when you can shed layers enjoy such end-of-season silliness as pond skimming contests and leisurely sun-soaked apres.
Spring…

My 80 Plus Patch and Its Potential
Two years ago, when I signed up as a member of the 70 plus ski club, I received my 80 plus patches. I had collected patches from ski areas for years and have a coat that adorns all or most of my patches. I have tried to buy one at every new ski area…

Musings from Whistler
Whistler is really a combination of two large areas – Blackcomb, Whistler, and a small village called Creekside. Each has a gondola that will take skiers up the mountain. Getting off any of the gondolas, it is an easy ski down to
Blackcomb has…

How Wheaties Affected The 1936 Olympics
Publishers Note: It is with great sadness that we learned of the recent passing of one of our most popular contributors, Harriet Wallis. This is one of her many articles we are republishing this season.
The Breakfast of Champions Kept Champion Ski Jumper…

Slopes of Serendipity
A piece of fiction by Ann Schissler
At Alpine Haven Resort, everyone knew when Edith “Edi” Farnsworth had arrived. Usually, it was the jacket that gave her away—something puffy and reflective, as if it had been stolen from a ski patrolman in…

Still Skiing After All These Years
We’ve all seen the classic posters: “Old skiers never die; they just go downhill” or “You don’t stop skiing when you get old—you get old when you stop skiing.”
And anyone who is out on the slopes regularly will notice that there seem…

Rediscovering My Ski Groove at Deer Valley
By Susan Sims
It had been more than thirty years since I last skied. Thirty years. That’s a long time for skis to gather dust, memories to fade, and fears to creep in. But when my husband and I planned our winter getaway to Park City, Utah, I knew…

Optimism vs. Pessimism: Update on Skiing Private-Public Powder Mountain
For the last seven seasons, I have been part of an all-guys trip to Powder Mountain for a week of old friends camaraderie and skiing. But as the days approached our Feb. 2026 departure, half of our group of twelve backed out because of concern there was…

The Tennessee Governor Who helped Popularize one of the South’s Best Nordic Ski Spots
Editors note: A version of this article appeared in the March-April 2025 issue of Skiing History magazine.
As governor of a southern state, Lamar Alexander was nobody’s guess to help spread cross-country skiing into the Southeast in the 1980s.
Granted,…

Short Swings: Timely Tidbits of Snowy News
There’s always something happening in snow country. This is the March edition of timely tidbits to know, to help you plan the rest of this season and important news for next season, too.
Epic Pass 2026/27 Offers New Discounts
In a major…

Another Miracle: How Lake Placid Could Again Host The Winter Olympics
LIVE! FROM LAKE PLACID NEW YORK! The 2042 WINTER OLYMPIC GAMES!
Likely to happen? Probably not!
Impossible? Not necessarily!
In the world of Winter sports, no event is as large or magnificent as the Winter Olympics. First held in 1924, the…
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