Steamboat Springs, CO – At Steamboat Springs, everybody was talking about the snow. They hadn’t had any for months. The resort normally gets 300 inches per year, but just before our arrival in mid-February they had about as much snow as the resorts of Vermont. In fact, Maryland had gotten far more snow – albeit … Continue reading Skiing Three of Colorado’s Heavy Hitters →

Revelstoke (BC), Canada – For several decades Revelstoke has been home base for some of the world’s finest backcountry powder skiing, but in 2007-08 the tiny local Powder Springs ski area was replaced by the new Revelstoke Mountain Resort on Mt. MacKenzie, which now boasts the greatest lift-served vertical drop of any ski resort in … Continue reading A Guide to Revelstoke Mountain Resort →

Tahoe City, CA – There’s something about the onslaught of spring that makes me long for a few last days on the snow. Maybe it’s the simple realization that I won’t venture onto a slope — at least not one covered in white — for more than six months. Or maybe I just kind of … Continue reading Where Else But Tahoe? Pushing Spring Skiing…And Snowboarding…To The Exteme →

Author Steven Woodruff descends the 14,005-foot Colorado landmark with famed extreme skier Chris Anthony Eagle County, CO – She appears to stand alone when observed from a distance. Like a lighthouse guiding a ship in the night, she has been my beacon in the Vail Valley from the first day I called Vail my … … Continue reading Two Sandwiches and Some Water: Skiing the Mount of the Holy Cross →

Eden, UT – Think Utah skiing, and what comes to mind? The ski and snowboard resorts surrounding the state’s only true ski town, Park City? Or maybe it’s the deep snows of the Cottonwood Canyons? Chances are, though, that it isn’t the three ski resorts that surround the pastoral Ogden Valley of northern Utah.

Pincher Creek (AB), Canada – Prior to 1998-99, only local skiers from the southern Alberta towns of Lethbridge and Pincher Creek patronized Castle Mountain, formerly known as Westcastle Park with its 1,700 vertical feet and 400 acres. In the summer of 1998 Castle purchased a double chair from Sunshine Village and expanded the mountain … … Continue reading Castle Mountain Revisited, and Other Alberta Skiing →

Breckenridge, CO – I was wearing shorts, looking out my home office window at palm trees, when I made the call. “Breckenridge, last weekend of the season,” was all I had to say. I could already picture the scene at the opposite end of the phone line — a guy in business casual, sitting at … Continue reading There’s Something About Breckenridge →