Archive for the 'Off Season' Category

The View from Mt. Crested Butte

Thursday, November 15th, 2007

Paul Hooge
Eight inches of snow fell on the deck, followed by twenty-two days of Indian Summer with blue bird skies, cold starry nights, and the sound of snow buns hissing in the distance. A late autumn high-pressure bubble sits on us again, but this is not unusual for the Colorado Rockies.
I remember making snow […]

Building My Base-Notes from My Training Journal

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Every year about this time I feel like a kid in a candy store. I begin thinking about which mountains I’m going to ski, what chance encounters I might have on the lift, the new gear I’m going to test on the slopes and what gear I would like to soon forget…like the snowblades […]