As my Subaru clawed its way up 13th Lake Road to Garnet Hill, the car thermometer stayed put at zero. A frosty welcome for Hudson United Race Team’s (HURT) Mega Relay. HURT, the host club, calls it mega because it’s a six-hour race. Unlike a traditional relay, each team member skis […]
Read More →One steamy August evening, I chilled out in Chelsea, attending the ski.com media party in New York City. Don’t ask how a cross-country skiing diehard got on their mailing list; I can’t figure it out myself. But any opportunity to talk skiing, meet new people and eat free hors d’ouevres, I’m […]
Read More →It oughta be easy to organize a World Cup ski race in the U.S., right? All you need is snow. Not so fast. It takes planning, talking a Eurocentric organizing body into the idea, and money. Read “No Races For You,” my new story on FasterSkier.
Read More →– words and photos by Andrey Revyakin [From the editor: The world is truly upside down when a hurricane brings early season snow to the mountains of West Virginia, while NJ and New York City get pummeled by 90 mile per hour winds. Prospect Mountain and Lapland Lake, which often […]
Read More →Mount van Hoevenberg, the historic venue that hosted the cross-country events of the 1980 Winter Olympics, is at a crossroads. While the trail system remains one of the most challenging in the U.S, it hasn’t been updated to accommodate modern race formats. In recent years, ORDA spent millions to build […]
Read More →The first time I happened on the New York Ski Blog might have been an internet search for Plattekill, as my alpine skiing friends extol the virtues of that Catskills mountain. So I browsed through it and moved on. Months later, jonesing for snow, I went back there one night. […]
Read More →With the Lake Placid Loppet cancelled, the carnage that was this winter’s messed-up race season was complete. Every race I’d planned on entering was cancelled. At the last minute, I registered for the Sugarloaf Marathon. It sounds like a damn fool thing to drive 500 miles – ONE way – […]
Read More →About a year ago, my good friend Andrey Revyakin relocated to Virginia from California. After backcountry skiing and hiking all across the Sierra Nevada, and after skiing all over Royal Gorge, it was a big adjustment to come to snow-challenged metropolitan DC. Andrey’s been rollerskiing, cycling and skiing at Whitegrass.
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