Skiing Fresh Tracks... stories of adventures on skis
Making Athletes Accessible
27 FEB 2001
Want to ski at Island Lake Lodge with Scot Schmidt?
Q & A with Laura Bakos Cho Oyu, Himalaya 22 FEB 2001
Last September, Bakos became the first woman to ski from the summit of an 8000-meter peak.
Telemark Skiing in Utah Alta, Utah 22 DEC 2000
A day of high winds and blowing snow were not an event organizer's dream. But none of the women who signed up were disappointed...
Early Season Avalanche Risks
Rocky Mountains 07 DEC 2000
If you go skiing in the backcountry or beyond the ski area's boundaries, there are no longer 40 or 50 patrollers working hard to make each slope safe for you.
Red Bull Rock-n-Air
Denver, Colorado 02 OCT 2000
As the old saying goes, "when God gives you lemons, make lemonade."
Ski Everest 2000
Mt. Everest, Himalaya 02 OCT 2000
Ongoing dispatches from a Slovenian expedition's attempt to ski monsoon snowpack on Mt. Everest.
Let Them Ski Cake
Tucson, Arizona 28 SEPT 2000
Fanatic skis into his 50th.
The Buzz of Skiing
Powder Day, Anywhere 17 AUG 2000
You're roaring down a long and winding snow-covered mountain track. The air is buffeting against your cold cheeks...
Racing Camp for Non-Racers
Mt. Hood, Oregon 17 JUL 2000
When I heard about a telemark race
camp at Mt. Hood, my initial
thoughts were: summer skiing? Sure.
Corn snow? Yep. Improve my turns?
We'll see. What's the worst that
could happen, other than having to
wear a funny tight suit?
First North Americans Ski Shishapangma Shishapangma, Tibet 7 JUL 2000
In May, Mike and Steve Marolt of Aspen,
Colorado, became the first North Americans to
ski from the summit of 8031-meter
Shishapangma.
Adventure at Rosie's Roost Alaska Backcountry 5 JUN 2000
During their first hut-skiing
trip to Alaska, a small low-pressure system moved in. Thinking on a lower-48
scale, ignorance bred enthusiasm. Little did they know they would be storm-bound
for three days, sipping cocktails and periodically digging out the hut just to
maintain the entryway.
Barrage in Crested
Butte Crested Butte, Colorado 7 MAR 2000
When the US Extreme Freeskiing
Championships in Crested Butte were cancelled in March due to lack of snow, we
decided to go anyway. We thought they could use some consoling, but who would
have guessed we'd find 60 inches in eight days, and no lift lines?
The Running of the Boards Jackson Hole, Wyoming 21 FEB 2000
After a huge snowstorm, correspondent Krista Crabtree and friends flocked to the tram at Jackson Hole Ski Resort looking for backcountry access. "We weed our way past hopeful locals with their beacons slung around their chests and their avalanche shovels poking out of their packs. There's a latté buzz in the air as people wait to see if the tram will be running..."
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