Skiing
Mammoth Powder Part 3
A Mammoth Skiing Adventure Part 1 Part 2 Skiing is a curious sport. From the outside, it seems perfectly pointless. A close relative has asked me a few times,...
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February 12, 2013
Mammoth Powder: A Short Story (part 2)
Read Mammoth Rental: A Short Story (Part 1) here I was standing on a precipice 11,000 feet above sea level. The temperature was nine below zero Farenheit with the...
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February 8, 2013
Mammoth, The Rental: A Short Story
“You need an SUV.” The man at the Thrifty desk at LAX seemed as certain about my needs as I felt certain that he was trying to fleece me. “If...
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January 31, 2013
March Madness 1: Spring Skiing
It would seem axiomatic that in a winter where it had not snowed in any sort of recognizable quantity, the skiing would suck, and big time. Oddly enough, the conditions...
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March 9, 2012
I Witness: Spring Skiing
Hunter Mountain, March 8, 1pm. It takes a long time to melt six feet of fresh snow....
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March 11, 2010
I Witness: Powder Day
Yes, that is thigh-deep snow. Yes, this is the East Coast. Yes, that is Clair’s Way on Hunter Mountain with only one person on it. Yes, this was yesterday, a...
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February 25, 2010
Catskills Corner Special: Skiing in a Recession
Over the Christmas holidays, I ran into an acquaintance from Brooklyn in the lodge at Hunter Mountain. He was bemoaning the cost of skiing: it had set him back $300...
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February 27, 2009
Catskills Corner: Campfire Hunter
In these days of Blogs, Facebooks, Twitters and the like, it’s rare for anyone to go to the trouble of starting up a print fanzine. Let alone a print fanzine...
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February 20, 2009
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