A little light reading before heading out on the hill to lead clinics during National Academy at Snowbird.
Summer Dream SkiingPortillo, ChileAugust 16-24, 2013 Included: ground transportation, lodging, meals (4/day), lift tickets, instruction, indoor presentations and video reviews and a welcome cocktail reception.Day 1 – Saturday, August, 17Arrive into the airport in Santiago. If you have not been to Chile before or you have a new passport since the last time you entered Chile, you must pay the entry fee. This line will be immediately to your left when you enter the immigration area. The entry fee is…
Do you have any cool spring or summer plans? Here are a couple of options from NASTC to pump up your adventure quotient this spring and summer. Mt. Shasta Trip: How does skiing down one of California’s highest peaks sound for bragging rights? NASTC runs an annual trip up Mt. Shasta that includes a climb to the summit and then a ski down back to basecamp. This is a one of a kind adventure, that is easily accessible, doesn’t require…
When one considers a 14,000ft peak, it is usually for climbing or mountaineering. What about ski mountaineering? Combining downhill skiing with mountaineering. NASTC offers a ski mountaineering trip on Mt. Shasta in the heart of the spring, when conditions are at their peak for this kind of adventure. No mountaineering experience required. What?! Genuinely, you do not have to have any mountaineering skills to do this trip, in fact it is a great introductory trip to ski mountaineering – think Haute…
After a week of some warm temperatures and great spring skiing, it looks like the weather will be changing course. The forecast shows that things will dramatically change early next week, with snow starting Tuesday through Wednesday and lingering snow showers on Thursday. Looks like conditions are going to be fantastic for the ski improvement camp at Northstar next week, March 22-24. We still have space available in the course. It should be a great 3 –days on snow. …
Some of you skiers out there, may have given up on the season already even though the resorts haven’t closed their doors yet. It’s not hard to do, the temperatures are warming up, the time change makes the days longer and your bikes are calling or the temptation to do anything else but get up to the mountains. You may be doing your skiing a disservice. There is still time to get coaching and make changes in your skiing and…
Vote for Truckee local, Jacob Burton, chef of Stella Restaurant at the Cedar House Sport Hotel as People’s Choice for Best New Chef. If you haven’t tasted Jacob’s creations, they are divine, he produces some of the freshest food combination and gets his inspiration from the Sierras and beyond. Make a reservation for dinner with Stella and be thoroughly delighted with his culinary creations. http://www.foodandwine.com/peoples-best-new-chef/california
Updated February 8, 2013, 12:10 p.m. ET Betting Big on Nitrogen U.S. Ski Team Pins Hopes for Sochi on Science By MATTHEW FUTTERMAN Reuters Ted Ligety, above, Sarah Hendrickson and Mikaela Shiffrin are strong medal contenders for the U.S. at the Sochi Games. Park City, Utah Most People who saw the footage of American all-everything skier Lindsey Vonn somersaulting over the snow on an Austrian mountain this week, shredding her knee ligaments and breaking her tibia in the process, figured…
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