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 …
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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 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
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 see the New York Times profile freeskiing's most famous teenager before we re-read a Powder Magazine column from its former editor. …
The holiday crunch is over and Midwesterners might be setting their sights on where it’s actually snowing this winter. A Delta flight lands at Salt Lake City International Airport. (Delta) Here’s a breakdown of direct flight prices to some ski destinations in the American west. Normally, we’d include Canada, but the border is not yet …
As has become tradition, at the beginning of last year, Midwest Ski Journal resolved to do better in three ways. While the year that was 2020 tried us in every way, we did a pretty good job on our resolutions. So this year, we are doing it again: We will reflect on 2020 and project …
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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 read a definitive account of Climate Change's effects on the ski industry. Then, we read about why skiing is the most …
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