It’s a good day in Midwest skiing as Mount Bohemia has opened. I, of course, take full credit for writing about Bohemia’s woes less than a week ago, thus jinxing their dry spell and allowing them to open. You all are very welcome. Mount Bohemia. Seven days a week, Midwest skiers yearning for some vertical, …
Continue reading It’s a good day: Mount Bohemia opens for the season
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 deep, deep forecast on the west coast. Then, we watch a snowblader elude a bear underneath the chairlift …
Continue reading Linking Turns: A fat forecast, a bear at the resort and Grand Targhee’s master plan
Richard T. Anderson Conservation area in the Minneapolis suburb of Eden Prairie is one of my favorite places to hike close to the metro, but I’ve long wondered how skiable it is, too. The answer: It goes. Tip shot at Richard T. Anderson Conservation Area in Eden Prairie, Minn. The sublime, powdery backcountry excursions of …
Continue reading Backcountry lite: A city park in Eden Prairie, Minnesota
Midwest skiing’s crown jewel has yet to open, leading the ski area to consider snowmaking and striking deals with other area hills to give passholders somewhere to shred. I’d imagine the mood is tense up on the Upper Peninsula this winter as the season is hurtling toward February without a single lift ride taken at …
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 re-examine the issues facing Duluth's Spirit Mountain. Then, we applaud Minnesota's next great winter athlete, whose discipline is slightly different than …
Continue reading Linking Turns: Spirit’s woes, a golden Minnesotan and why skiers live longer
Everyone I talked to at Brundage and Tamarack in west central Idaho this past weekend asked me to please not spread the word about their mountain enclaves. While crowds and sparse snow are dominating headlines around North America, I found neither in Idaho. Therefore, I am breaking my promise to inform my fellow midwesterners about …
One of my favorite things is my journal of every single one of my ski days since 2014. My skiing journal, where every one of my ski days since 2014 lives on the page. That year I happened upon a stack of empty, old notebooks and thought of ways to use them. That same season …
Continue reading How to start your ski journal and why I love mine
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 chairlift incident at Indianhead in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Then, we check in with skiing legend Tanner …
It’s been a brutal snow season so far for the Midwest and that tension is only exacerbated by the pandemic we’re enduring, but the resilience of independent ski areas like Welch Village is something to be applauded. The view of the lodge from the top of one of Welch Village's best runs. Friday, Jan. 8. …
Continue reading Conditions report: Welch Village shouldn’t have been as good as it was
Weather data shows exactly what Midwest skiers already know: It’s been a bad snow season so far. According to National Weather Service snowfall records, most of the upper Midwest is lagging 2 to 16 inches behind its average snow depth at this time. A National Weather Service map from Jan. 6 showing the snow depth …
Continue reading Not great, Bob: Analyzing the Midwest snowpack
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