Midwest Ski Journal likes to highlight a few pieces of skiing internet worth your time in LINKing Turns. Find the best, most important, least important and otherwise links here each week. This week we look at how New Englanders join ski clubs before watching a video on how to successfully camp at the base of …
Whistler won me over. When I thought about Whistler, I pictured a big, Snowmass-like, sprawling family mountain with a Vail-like base village. (I knew about the village from a summer visit.) It's a Vail-owned resort and that fact alone made me skeptical. Still, I planned a visit because of its legend in the ski world. …
A St. Paul man died skiing at Lutsen Mountains Wednesday. According to the Cook County Sheriff's Office, the 70-year-old was skiing alone when he died. Ski patrol found him unresponsive and bleeding from the face. Lutsen Mountains (Midwest Ski Journal) The incident happened just after 12:30 p.m. on Moose Mountain, just below the Moose Mountain …
It was a film with so much promise on paper. It featured two comedic superstars and was set on a ski hill. I wanted it, and still want it, to be great. In fact, I was hoping to hold off on reading any reviews before I could see it myself. I failed in that and …
Continue reading Film reviewers lambaste ‘Downhill’ in excruciating fashion
Midwest Ski Journal likes to highlight a few pieces of skiing internet worth your time in LINKing Turns. Find the best, most important, least important and otherwise links here each week. This week we read a sensational shuttle story, find Minnesota's true backcountry skiers and look at nordic skiing's addiction to toxic wax. TURN 1: …
Continue reading LINKing Turns: Tales from the shuttle, real backcountry in MN and toxic XC ski wax
It's 8:45 a.m. and first chair-seekers are populating the base lodge at your favorite ski hill. They've come from far and wide in the common search of turns, but none of them are even remotely common people. Here are 5 people you see at the base before the lifts open: 1. The Stressed Out Father …
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According to local media reports, this January was the gloomiest in the 50 years since meteorologists have been tracking "gloom" across the Midwest. FOX 9 reports that it was the cloudiest January on record in Minnesota, which didn't make for great skiing weather. Compounding the cloudiness was the lack of precipitation, too. After a snowy …
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Midwest Ski Journal likes to highlight a few pieces of skiing internet worth your time in LINKing Turns. Find the best, most important, least important and otherwise links here each week. This week we look at a remarkable and important piece of outdoor journalism, a less important, but fun piece of journalism and an announcement …
Some use Sundays to wind down and prepare for their week ahead, but Buck Hill in Burnsville, Minnesota is giving you a reason to get on the hill. After 7:30 p.m. Sunday nights, you can ski Buck Hill for just $15. The hill closes at 10 p.m., so you can get two and a half …
Continue reading Deal alert: Cap your weekend off with some turns for $15
When you don't live in the mountains and skiing isn't in front of your eyes every day, there's always Instagram. It's our connection to elusive alpine life we all daydream about, but can only achieve a few times a year. Luckily, there are people to follow in order to save our flatlander souls. Here are …
