skiing

We finally got some significant snow this winter and the Upstate New York ski resorts are churning out fresh powder to add to it. This weekend you can ski for free at a popular local ski mountain close to the Capital Region.

This week over 1400 collegiate athletes are competing in Lake Placid for the 2023 FISU Winter World University Games. The site of two Winter Olympic competitions in 1932 and 1980 provided the perfect infrastructure for the international event. However, many of the competition sites and training areas needed drastic updating to be considered for such a high-profile winter sports event. In stepped the State of New York and the Lake Placid is shining with Gold Medals.

Are you looking for something fun to do with your family during the cold winter months? If so, look no further than West Mountain. They offer a variety of 2 or 3-day winter camps during December break, February break, and Martin Luther King Weekend.

The West Mountain after-school ski program is offered various times throughout the week and is the perfect way to get your kids outside and enjoy the winter weather.

This may be your last chance!

The Berkshires have many small ski resorts and one that has been closed down for fifteen years may be getting some new life. Brodie Mountain ski resort has yet another new owner.

The Adirondacks are filled with amazing ski resorts including the largest in all of New York state. We are lucky because it's just an hour north of the Capital Region. Gore Mountain has announced that it will be doing a major makeover over the next couple of years.

His buddy took a video of him talking to ski patrol

For life-long winter sports fans, Warren Miller is an institution.  Before action sports movies were mainstream, and production companies like Teton Gravity existed, there was Warren Miller. For decades, Warren Miller and his production company have released films, highlighting the world of winter sports, the fun of the 'ski bum', the beauty of the mountain, and the adrenaline of big air and chute

Ready to take advantage of all that Killington has to offer this winter on the Q? We're handing out lift ticket all weekend long and you may just score yourself a weekend getaway for two!

Love it or hate it, Winter is here and judging by the weather as of late. It is sadly here to stay. But then again, if you clicked on this, you probably love skiing. So really it isn't a bad thing.

While I am super-amped most of the time, thanks to my Rock Girl nature, I can't help but getting the winter blues every so often.  Most of the time, it happens when I'm thinking of all the exciting summer concerts to come, summer concert trips of years past, long nights in tank tops and flip flops, campfires, and the creek- and then I realize it's windy, snowy, and cold, and my bathing suits are m