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Our East-Coast-based gear junkie, Jake, is out west for a roadshow in The West for a month-or-so. This is his first check in. Check back later for more updates from him, and additional gear insights!

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1. Down: A Presidential Transversal

Filed on: October 27th, 2018 By: Greg

In late October 2018 Mount Washington in New Hampshire received 28.8 inches of snow and 1027.8 miles of wind in 96 hours.

We decided to go for a little ski. Is that a buttrest? No. But it’s close.

It was a little …

Hill Life

Filed on: October 23rd, 2014 By: Greg

Unlike still life photography, Hill Life leaves no time to ponder a subject. Hill Life reveals itself for merely a few seconds before disappearing just as quickly. The angle of the light will change. The skier emerges from the snow. …

ADK the Hard Way

Filed on: April 1st, 2014 By: Peter

Not to be outdone by the 4hr approach that Greg and the Curmudgeon did getting into A Hole;   Jake, Hutz, and I woke up at zero dark:30 and drove to Gnarville together.  We had a plan for a ski tour that might …

After Careful Consideration…

Filed on: March 17th, 2014 By: Greg

Dear Vulcan,
After careful consideration, we regret to inform you that your application of snow for “VTah” status was denied.

While your resume was reasonably deep,

and your stats were impressive,

and while your performance was admirable,

we are an organization that attempts to avoid …

A Voice Cried Out

Filed on: January 6th, 2014 By: Greg

I heard it calling through the cold; across the snow-clad slopes it came; fragments of a message were all I could make out. What did it say? Who was it? Why was it speaking to us?

We schussed towards from whence …

Toast to the Season

Filed on: December 31st, 2013 By: Peter

This season has had some pow, some schussin’, and has seen us up all night to Git Lucky. But with the end of 2013 looming, one thing was missing (for me at least; I don’t even know what Greg is …

The Stuffing

Filed on: November 28th, 2013 By: Greg

The second most important thing to be thankful about on Thanksgiving? Definitely the stuffing.

Lucky for all of us the mountains of Vermont were stuffed with white stuffing for Thanksgiving this year, giving us lots to be thankful for.

The FIRST and …

Dreams of Schuss

Filed on: October 25th, 2013 By: Greg

You may have noticed that we’ve been dreaming about schuss over on our Facebook page since August. Well the dream has finally ended (or has it just begun?), and we notched our first schuss of 2013-2014 today after an upslope …

On the Homology of a Schuss

Filed on: March 26th, 2013 By: Greg

“Nihilistic” comes to mind when I’m asked what schussing is all about; you go up, you come down, and that’s about it. Don’t search for deeper meaning. It’s not there. Sometimes you come down the same thing you went up. …

The Sequester

Filed on: March 5th, 2013 By: Greg

With temperature raises looming, and no meteorological will to cut a deal, the weather in the northeast left itself no option but to allow a sequester of the pow (in fog) to begin.

As the storm clouds of the imminent sequester …

Rocky Mountain High

Filed on: February 15th, 2013 By: Jake

My last vision of Vermont was on a 50 deg rainy day 2 weeks ago as I boarded a plane heading for Denver. Suffice it to say that I was not sad to leave my beautiful home behind and …

TR: A Tale of Two-to-the-Two Chute Schusses

Filed on: January 15th, 2013 By: Greg

It was the best of times,
it was the worst of rhymes,
it was the age of wisdom,
it was age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of relief,
it was the epoch of schussability,
it was the season of light snow,
it was the season of …

A Tale of Two-to-the-Two Chute Schusses

Filed on: January 15th, 2013 By: Greg

It was the best of times,
it was the worst of rhymes,
it was the age of wisdom,
it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of relief,
it was the epoch of schussability,
it was the season of light snow,
it was the season …

‘Twas the night before deepness, and all through the mounts,
not a creature was stirring, not even a moose.
The ski-socks were drying, by the wood-stove with care,
In the hopes that Ullr bringer-o’-upslope soon would be there.
The powder was nestled all snug …

West By Ullr Virginia

Filed on: November 4th, 2012 By: Peter

It was two weeks ago, while most of the East Coast was bracing for the wind, rain, and tidal surge of Hurricane Sandy, that the first rumors of deep hurricane-induced snows in Appalachia started circulating among the schuss-reverent. Then …

Famous Internet Gear Guide 2012-2013: Episode II

Filed on: October 15th, 2012 By: Jake

After a week that featured our first schuss of the season (and second and third), we now continue our Famous Internet Gear Guide series!
But before we do, I have to warn you that you will need to insert your own …

Systems Test

Filed on: October 8th, 2012 By: Greg

Based on yet-another spot-on forecast by the esteemed Lionel Hutz, the FIS east coast bureau was ready bright and early today for a systems test in preparation for the upcoming ski season. Most of us were of the impression that …

Famous Internet Gear Guide 2012-2013: Episode I

Filed on: September 17th, 2012 By: Jake

September.
It is amazing how much my opinion of this month has changed over the course of my life. For the first seventeen years I dreaded September and the inevitable return to my educational incarceration. Now I love …

As you know we here at FIS love toe celebrate events on the calendar. Shane day (check). Leap Day (check). Martha Washington’s Birthday (check). So in honor of the summer solstice which we refer to as “the turn” the FIS …

Western Roadshow — Part I

Filed on: May 2nd, 2012 By: Jake

When the days start to get long and the eastern snowpack is on it’s way out, I load up my Subie and hightail it West for some Rocky Mountain schuss-action. Corn snow and open season on peaks that usually …

Spring: From High to Low

Filed on: April 17th, 2012 By: Greg

Spring had sprung. Right? From low to high, skiing was more or less done for the season, right? After all, a week of unbelievable heat had scorched the northeast, The Mountain was closed, the lifts had stopped turning, and the …

Altarondacks — Episode 3

Filed on: March 12th, 2012 By: Peter

As I type this a warm Tropical Depression is eating away at our awesome NE snowpack with some vicious southerly winds. So, you’re probably wondering what to do now. We suggest you do the same …

Every 4 years the world is blessed with an extra day of winter. (Edit per Dr. Petrics: every four years the world is blessed with an extra day of winter UNLESS that year is also divisible by 400 in which …

I have to be honest, there were big plans (read: it was written, and ready to be published) behind the many closed doors of FIS to call this VTah Episode VI: Return of the SHREDi. We would start with a …

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