There was a fresh foot of snow when we arrived Friday morning at Mt. Hood Meadows and another foot fell throughout the day. Friday, Feb. 26 at Mt. Hood Meadows was a nearly perfect storm skiing day. It would not stop chonking all day. Every run got deeper and we never saw our tracks. Absolutely …
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In a normal year, pulling off a powder chase has a lot of moving parts and can be a headache. This year, resorts requiring lift ticket reservations had started yet another plate spinning. In a normal chase, which is generally orchestrated in the days leading up to your coveted powder day, you can expect to …
If you can survive the first two hours after you’ve decided NOT to go skiing, then you’re mostly in the clear. Those two hours, though, are going to be a mental spiral filled with regret, but ultimately, power. Midwest Ski Journal is mostly dedicated to making it work. We emphasize how to make your stars …
Continue reading Not going: The pain and power of choosing to not go skiing
The Freeride World Tour will return for a 2021 season, but with fewer stops. After the pandemic ground the 2020 tour to a halt, this year's tour will look a lot different and stick to one continent. Andorra, Austria and Switzerland will host this year's three events, which will all take place within the span …
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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 new and creative ski day lunches before looking into Steamboat's survey of its businesses regarding climate change. Finally, we …
This President's Day weekend, MSJ is throwing it back to one of our first posts, recapping a weekend at Whitefish that started great and ended with feet of deep, cold powder. Four years later, I feel safe admitting to my now former boss that I was not "snowed in" and couldn't make it to work …
Continue reading MSJ Rewind: President’s Day 2018 at Whitefish was all-time
The pandemic has made nearly everything worse, but we are going to take a step back and highlight a few changes to the skiing experience that we wouldn’t mind sticking around in the long term. Beyond the utter death and destruction this thing has wreaked on the world, the pandemic has not been kind to …
Continue reading What ski-specific pandemic changes we’d like to see endure
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 some tough, if not unexpected news about backcountry deaths. Then, a historian tells us about the history of a hill …
Lost in the proliferation of the “Tycoon” games of the 2000s was perhaps the greatest PC game ever created. The cover of Ski Resort Tycoon. (Amazon) Ski Resort Tycoon is as simple as it sounds. Instead of a zoo or a theme park, the player builds an economically sustainable ski resort based on a few …
Continue reading Reminiscing about the once great ‘Ski Resort Tycoon’
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 Sun Country's new flights to our favorite mountains. Then, we look at data showing American kids trending towards individual, …
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