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  Arctic Man is, in our opinion, one of the most raw and radical Ski Racing Events ever hatched.  An extreme combination of gravity and motor sport at speeds well in excess of 80 miles per hour.  A skier starts at the first peak, when they reach the bottom they grab a rope attached to a snogo already in motion which drags the athlete to the next peak and literally slingshots them over the crest of the next run and finishing At the base of the second descent. It evolved from a bet made in a bar (Sounds familiar Mt...

Photo credit Mark Ruckman Gelandesprung translates from German to English as "Terrain Jump".  We've learned that traditionally it is a long distance ski jump off a natural feature but has been more commonly jumping off a Nordic Ski Jump with an Alpine configured ski.....usually as long as you can find usually a 230 or DH board. I found an event at Sugarbush VT that looks like it's scheduled for February of 2016 and appears to be the third consecutive year......can't find a lot of detail on it. Snow Bowl in Missoula MT has the oldest active jump which seems to...

So last time we discussed the merits of Ski Jumping and had a conversation about not only how awesome and gnarly it was but why it wasn't more popular and common here in our home country.  Since then I have taken a few steps to move in the direction of being allowed to hit a local jump.  I stumbled through the questions about how comfortable I was on telemark / Nordic style setup and what I pictured the whole event looking like from start to finish if I lacked confidence in those fundamental requirements.  Needless to say I've got some...

The cool weather is here!   The Colorado mins will start opening in a week and a half they're already skiing at Killington VT and Sunday River ME North Face continues to get more white by the day....were nearly there.  A friend of mine gave me a vintage jumping ski that I'm going to use as a curtain valence once I figure it out.  It is a great conversation piece it immediately got us talking about all the different ways people enjoy the snow from Nordic Skiing to Dog Sledding to Speed Skiing to Bump Skiing to.......Ski Jumping! Where do...

We're all very excited for El Niño ...... At least we think we are?  Everyone seems psyched for it, which is cool, but what does it mean for us? This morning we decided to do some research hoping to understand how high we should actually get our hopes.  The conclusion is that no one really has any idea. El Niño is characterized by a "different" weather pattern than normal due to water temps at the equator.  We waded through articles and Q&A by a handful of our favorite meteorologists and snow predictors only to discover that no one really has...