The Latest Update Shows Impact Might Good for Some, Uncertain For Others. NOAA’s National Climate Predication Center announced that La Nina has returned. She’s weak but still might pack a sting for our winter weather. La Nina means cooling of water in the eastern Pacific. As remote as that may seem to North America, that coolness effects how weather masses[Read More…]
Home Of Big Time Extreme Weather Looks Over Dramatic Moving Clouds. Mt. Washington is the Northeast’s highest summit. At 6,288 feet above sea level, the mountain is a mecca for campers, hikers, and fast-changing weather conditions. This video was taken from the Observatory on the summit in late October this year. It reveals an “undercast”—opposite to overcast—as the dawn sun warms[Read More…]
We need your support. SeniorsSkiing.com is the only dedicated source of information for older snow sports enthusiasts. Our sole source of income is through advertising, and right now there are enough advertisers — bless them — to keep the lights on. We — Mike and Jon — put in a lot of unpaid time to bring you SeniorsSkiing.com. Our contributors[Read More…]
Exotic, Remote Places To Ski, 50 Years Of Ski Racing, 85-Year-Old Skier On A Mission And More. This has been an extraordinary week in the world of sports. Ski resorts are opening up all over the country, even in New England! Snow is here. Check Short Swings! for more industry news. And, amazingly and gloriously, the Chicago Cubs managed to[Read More…]
Check Out The Change In Equipment, Styles, Spectators Through The Years. Many thanks to the Canadian Ski Instructors Alliance for posting this really interesting clip. The CSIA got it from Skitourowe Zakopane.pl., a Polish ski travel group enticing visits to the Tatra Mountains, the highest mountains in Poland and part of the Carpathian chain in Eastern Europe. In any case, it’s[Read More…]
Congratulating The Ski Diva, Warren Miller’s Latest, Exercise Tips Part 1, Retail Drop Ins. What a flurry of activity we’ve had around SeniorsSkiing.com since the publication of our ski recommendations for senior skiers! We welcome the many new subscribers who found their way to our online magazine through Facebook and Huffington post. We hope you like our editorial content, now[Read More…]
NATIONAL SeniorsSkiing.com salutes The Ski Diva for winning the prestigious Harold S. Hirsch Award for Best Ski Blog from the North American Snowsports Journalists Association. Wendy Clinch, a refugee from the advertising business, started the Ski Diva, a women’s ski blog, in 2006. Since then, she has written on a wide-range for topics for women snowsport enthusiasts and has attracted[Read More…]
[Editor Note: It’s buying season, and we know from our reader surveys that many senior snow enthusiasts are looking for new gear and clothing. We decided to do an experiment and drop into three different ski shops in three different parts of the country to ask, “What’s hot for seniors?” That means, what stands out this year for seniors that’s[Read More…]
New Features: Industry News, Ski Recommendations For Seniors, Plus Advice On Carving, And An Often-Neglected Miracle Drug. As the season ramps up in the West (A-Basin opens today!) and snow forecasts start to appear in Vermont, SeniorsSkiing.com is moving into snow season mode. There are some important new features we are launching this week. Short Swings! is our brand new round-up[Read More…]
A Weekly Round-Up Of Industry News. CALIFORNIA 11th annual Alpenglow Sports Winter Film Series will be held at Squaw Valley’s Olympic Village Lodge, November 17. Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows promoted Tom Feiten to VP, Marketing and Business Development, overseeing marketing and sales. Before joining the resort in 2011, he helped Teton Gravity Research revitalize the Teton Gravity Research annual film[Read More…]
A Ski Instructor Reviews How To Turn On Shaped Skis. [Editor Note: Our Spring Survey 2016 revealed an interesting statistic. About 30 percent of seniors take one or more lessons during a ski season. For those of us who are still skidding around turns and wondering how other skiers make those clear, sharp, carved ski tracks, PSIA ski instructor Pat[Read More…]
The Benefits Of Solitude, Grandkid Book Recommendation, Boot Revival. This week we are anticipating a big, big snow fall in the Pacific Northwest coming from a huge cyclone off the coast. And thanks to Snowbrains.com, a really terrific snow sport site, we learn where the snow will accumulate enough for resorts to open first. Here’s the official view from NOAA/NWS. Just a[Read More…]
More Layering Advice, Finding Ski Buddies, And A New X-C Leader Emerges. Just to get the mind ready, here’s a micro video clip of our friend’s son, Chris Thomas, doing the powder at Steamboat last spring. Hang on folks we are almost there. Now is the time of the year to be browsing through the ski magazines and websites for new gear[Read More…]
Senior Season Pass Discount Deals, BC Big Boy Resort, Tandem Warren Miller Movie And Book Reviews. The snow season continues to emerge from the fall weather. There’s snow at high elevations through the Northwest and, in the East, there is definitely a snap in the air and the leaves are turning. This week in SeniorsSkiing.com we welcome Michael Warner’s new[Read More…]
New Site Pinpoints Lift Discount Deals For Seniors. [Editor Note: Last season, we published an article about Michael Warner’s website that summarized lift ticket deals for senior skiers at Tahoe area resorts. This season, Michael is going national, publishing a new website—seniorsskideals.com— that identifies season pass and lift ticket discounts for seniors at top resorts. Michael uses data from Zrankings.com[Read More…]
La Nina No Way, Goggle News, Sailing On Snow, Advice On Buying Gear. EXTRA! LATE BREAKING NEWS: SeniorsSkiing.com Subscribers Can Get A Discount at BEWI’s Ski And Snowsport Expos. Click The Ad At The Top Of The Page. We’ve been watching the news from various country ski resorts about the first snow falls of the year. We’ve heard Tahoe has been[Read More…]
What Is Old Is New Again. Last season, 38-year-old Ma Liqin visited Norway to demonstrate an ancient skiing style still used in the Altai Mountains, a range located at the intersection of China, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Mongolia. People in that region ski daily for hunting and transportation. Their equipment is fashioned from wood and has animal fur tied to the[Read More…]
Snow Sports Leader Interview, Awesome Mountain Biking By Senior Crew in WVA, Kudos To The Ski Diva. Labor Day is at last behind us. We’re getting closer to snow season and, guess what, we’ve heard that there are folks making runs in Montana on scratchy and almost covered trails. So it begins, the season of 2016-17. There are so many[Read More…]
Snow In The Air, Crazy Alaskan Run, French Alps Resort Review, Our First Reader Ski Report. Snow came to high places in Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado in late August. Pike’s Peak and A-Basin had a dusting. Colorado Springs had to bring out the plows to handle a hail storm. Looks as if a heck of a winter is brewing up[Read More…]
Les Deux Alpes, France: Seniors 72+ Ski Free. Editor’s Note: This Resort Review was written by Val E., a reader who has an interesting background in the ski industry. Val used to work as a ski slalom course supervisor, snowboard technician, ski/snowboard clothing consultant, ski engineer, ski/snowboard writer and photographer in the U.S. and in Europe. He traveled to 25 countries,[Read More…]
A Reader Has Discovered A Perfect Ski For Seniors. Here’s His Story. Editor’s Note: We received this ski review from Seniorsskiing.com subscriber Tom Levak, an enthusiastic skier who skis in the Portland, OR, area and also hits Mt. Hood every summer. As far as we know, Tom is not associated with ON3P; this is an example of how our readers[Read More…]
Seven Word Food Maxim, Looking Back At Portillo’s FIS Moment, Water Park Fun In VT, Hits From The OR Show, NZ Ice Follies. It’s been a busy post-vacation week here at SeniorsSkiing.com. We came back to lots of emails offering really good prices for season passes if you buy now. Once again, Sugarbush is offering its very excellent mid-week season[Read More…]
SeniorsSkiing.com Is On Vacation! For the first time since we started publishing in 2014, we are taking a break. See you next week. If you haven’t signed up for your Promotive discount, let us know.
Falling From The Sky, More Snowless—And Rough—Skiing, Promotive Discount Reminder, First Resort Review Of Season, Free Skiing Endures. It’s been a busy week at SeniorsSkiing.com. We have some far-reaching stories that may help you through the latest heat wave. Co-Publisher Jon Weisberg reports on a daredevil who jumped from a plane to the earth without a parachute or batwings. No,[Read More…]
A Small Area Enchants Seniors, Offering Bargain Skiing In Big Powder. Editor Note: This review was written by Jim Barber, a long time skier and ski business veteran. He lives near Mt. Baldy and loves his retirement home in BC. Here’s his story: “My wife and I started our life together in the ski shop business at Hunter Mountain N.Y. in the[Read More…]
