Recent content by world'sworsttelemarker

I expect to be at MRG Saturday, but I have to come home Sunday :cry: Please, someone, make this snow come Saturday instead!

I couldn't agree more with the comments here. We could all cite inexplicable decisions made on running the place. My pet peeve is the bent, worn-out condition of the foot rests on the lift safety bars. It's a little, almost picky thing, but it says management doesn't care. There's no excuse for...

You're on Stowe's pic-of-the-day page. Nice work! BTW, what's your gear there?

Seek out an all-wheel-drive Volvo with Nokian snow tires. When I drove up a hilly, unpaved Adirondack dirt road in sleet and ice last January, people at my destination assumed I had a big SUV or four-wheel-drive truck. I was in a V70 with all-wheel drive. I get about twice the gas mileage of...

Last year there was a version of this race at Mad River Glen and Sugarbush. Has anyone seen or heard anything about whether it'll be repeated there or elsewhere in the East this coming season? Or perhaps whether there might be a similar event in the region? I have this whacky idea of entering it...

So I just finished my first season with tele gear and loved it. I had found some decent skis on e-bay and bought new boots. I'm getting the hang of it, and next season I may be on tele gear almost all the time (the exception would be on steep, often-icy moguls; I'm an Eastern skier). But the...

A thought on whether to rent a car: It's been several years -- what, nine? Egad! I must get back -- but when I skied a week in Park City, the coach (bus) company that brought us in from the SLC airport also offered a deal to Little Cottonwood Canyon on the bus. If I remember correctly, it...