Looking Back At A Cool, Cold Sport In Quebec. In February, we traveled to Quebec to visit the Winter Carnavale and the legendary ski resorts on the St. Lawrence, Mount Saint Anne and Le Massif de Charlevoix. The city was alive with thousands of people celebrating the brilliant cold and the many events of the […]
For Die-Hards, Here’s How To Keep Going. Signs that the season is ending are starting to sprout along with the crocuses. In the East, many areas will be closing this weekend; there’s still lots of snow on the ground, but many lift lines are nearly empty even on the weekend. Many skiers have had enough. […]
Should We Have Ski Equipment Just For Seniors, Too? At the ski shows last fall, we heard rumblings in the ski industry about products for specific segments. Now, our friend and colleague The Ski Diva has tracked down and interviewed Jen Gureki, CEO and Founder of Coalition Snow, which manufactures skis for women. Her rationale for […]
Take An Aerial Tour Of The Himalayas. Teton Gravity Research, one of our favorite action sports movie makers, has captured the spirit of the mighty giants of the Himalayas. Using an advanced camera stablizer, this short, ultra HD video takes you up close and personal to Mt. Everest, Ama Dablam, and Lhotse. Fasten your seat […]
All-Women Ski Trip Brings Kindred Spirits Together Our friend and colleague, The Ski Diva, gathers a group of Diva Members for an annual ski trip to exciting places. This year, her group went to Montana where they had a rocking good time. Click here for her report. Pass this along to the Ski Diva in […]
Please Add Your Feedback To Other Subscribers to SeniorsSkiing.com This month marks our first full year of publishing SeniorsSkiing.com, the only online resource for 50+ snow enthusiasts. It’s a good time for us to get your advice, comments and input on how we can make our magazine more useful to you. Please take a minute […]
Here’s a picture of our weather record-breaking mid-winter month. Black and White, Ying and Yang, Macy’s and Gimbel’s, Felix and Oscar: These opposites come to mind when we look at this picture of what happened to the weather in February, 2015. The Washington Post reports there were coldest months on record throughout the East, while […]
Boston Reports Over 100 Inches, 2 1/2 More Than Normal, With Three More Weeks Of Winter To Go. If you are a senior skier from the West, you are probably wondering what’s going on with the snow. Our correspondent in Utah report skiers taking two or three runs on ice-covered, snow-deprived slopes and calling it a […]
Where else can you ski into a major river (almost) and take a ski train to a charming village? About an hour north of Quebec City, we find Le Massif de Charlevoix, a magnificent and major North American ski area that offers several exceptional features: Most people arrive and park at the top of the […]
Women’s ski site explores the benefits of being senior skiers
Au Quebec Pays des Merveilles d’Hiver Messieurs et Mesdammes, nous aimons le Quebec en hiver! With apologies to Madame Haydu, my high school French teacher, our recent journée au Quebec was trés intéressant, and nous were heureuse to tell you toût de l’historie. Eçoutez, Senior Skiers, if you are looking for a winter vacation in […]
A New Extreme Sport Emerges For Those Who Really Love The Cold Hearty, are we? Well, these lads surely are. These garcons are one of a dozen or so teams, some of them professionals, who are canoe racing on the St. Lawrence during Quebec’s Winter Carnival. The amateurs included a women’s team, mixed men and women […]
Daredevil is becoming an -ism. Here’s yet another impossible run. We wonder if videos like this help recruit people to skiing or turn them off. It sure looks, um, well, risky. What do you think? Professional skiers Candide Thovex totally shreds Val Blanc.
Adaptive Ski Instructor Provides Advice on Predictable Issues for Returnees Alisa Anderson, Smuggler’s Notch’s (VT) adaptive skiing program manager, is a highly-specialized PSIA instructor who, over the past 20 years, has applied techniques and tools for skiers of all kinds who need a little extra help getting down the mountain. She trained at the National […]
Now This Should Tighten You Up. Cody Townsend, professional free skier and athlete, takes on the most improbable ski run we’ve ever seen. The scene is a near vertical chute in Alaska’s Tordrillo Mountains, more like a elevator shaft than a ski run. This scene is a clip from Red Bull’s documentary, “Days of My […]
There are dozens of ski areas that offer free skiing to seniors. SeniorsSkiing.com’s partner, the International Ski History Association, has just published an incredibly valuable resource for senior skiers. In the November-December 2014 issue of Skiing History Magazine, there’s a directory of where seniors can ski for free or for discounts in North America. Thanks […]
High-Speed Gondola To Link Both Areas The recent acquisition by Vail of Park City Mountain Resort is yielding a major new development. Vail will link Park City and Canyons Resorts together, creating the largest ski area in the US with over 7,300 acres of skiable terrain. Click here to read the whole story from the […]
Clever new “portable” boot makes feet happy. We’ve been padding around SeniorsSkiing.com’s New England office for the past few days wear-testing our new Pakems boots that we picked up at the Boston Ski and Snowboard Show last month. The real trial will come in a couple of weeks on some ski hill in New Hampshire, Vermont, […]
Latest Prediction from WBZ-TV Meteorologist Forecasts Cold and Snow With the season just getting started, we’ve been diligently watching snow forecasts as we know know you have as well. As we reported in an earlier post, Joel Gratz, our favorite snow meteorologist who prognosticates at OpenSnow, has been compared a number of weather models and […]
When Was The Last Time You Skied In The Dark? We bet it wasn’t like this. So far, this year’s pre-snow-season has seen at least two new dazzling ski movies hit the screens. First, we couldn’t help but notice Warren Miller’s 65th ski movie, No Turning Back, which we reviewed here and concluded it was […]
Lifts are open in the high Rockies! What we’ve been waiting for has finally happening. Subtly, to be sure. The lifts opened on Oct 17 at Arapahoe Basin, the first ski area to open this season. Robin’s egg blue day. Let’s hope we see more of those this year. To read the scoop on […]
Salt Lake City launches campaign to attract skiers to a “base camp for skiing”. Visit Salt Lake President Scott Beck isn’t pulling punches when he says a new $1.8 billion campaign to boost SLC’s brand is aimed at luring skiers away from Colorado’s storied resorts. Expect a flurry of online and print advertisements promoting Salt […]
Handicapping 2014-2015 winter can lead to confident-sounding but wrong predictions. By now, you’ve noticed that the weather in the past few years has become a series of conversation-starting, concern-causing, head-scratching, question-asking phenomena. Last winter was—as they say down east— a “hoser”. In the Northeast, we had the most persistent, bitterly cold winter in memory. According to […]
Thanks, Sugarbush, For The Deal! Sugarbush Resort is offering a wonderful deal: Mid-week season pass for $199 for 65+ skiers. For mid-week Boomer skiers, this is a good thing. Thanks, Sugarbush, for acknowledging senior skiers. Click here to BUY NOW.