It took me 10 hours over two days to dig out of the blizzard of 1 February. Moving over two feet of snow, I needed a rest day. The following Thursday, I drove to Lake Minnewaska to take advantage of all that fresh powder. When it was still privately owned, […]
Read More →On Saturday, I drove to North Creek, NY for Sunday’s Gore JNQ 10 km skate race. It’s been a while since I’ve driven 260 miles in a snowstorm, and the first time in my new / used diesel Jetta. What’s generally a four-hour ride turned into a six hour slog, […]
Read More →At the eleventh hour, I signed up for the 10 km classic race at the North Creek Nordic Fest last Saturday. In October, I’d torn a hamstring during a hard interval workout and limped back to my car. It’s been a long road with careful, and dare I say, banal […]
Read More →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 […]
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