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Tag: Taos

The Star is Super, times five

The Star is Super, times five

November 29, 2021November 29, 2021 Rick Bolger
Unless you live in a cave you certainly heard by now that Mikaela Shiffrin won her 5th straight slalom on the Superstar course at Killington yesterday, making a magnificent second run to edge Petra Vl... Read More
Openings Continue, Pair of Wins for Petra

Openings Continue, Pair of Wins for Petra

November 22, 2021 Rick Bolger
Couple more on the books in Colorado; Summit County’s Copper Mountain opened for the season this afternoon, while Front Range fave Eldora spun the lifts this weekend and they’re good to go... Read More
Southwest Season Set to Launch

Southwest Season Set to Launch

October 30, 2019 Rick Bolger
A spate of storms through the southern Rockies has a number of resorts lined up to join the fun; Wolf Creek Colorado expects to spin tomorrow for trick or treaters, running Nova chair and a carpet fro... Read More
Season Speeds Along

Season Speeds Along

March 27, 2019March 27, 2019 Rick Bolger
Recent FIS World Cup women’s downhill globe winner Nicole Schmidhofer recently participated in the FIS Speed Skiing World Championships in Vars (FRA) and posted a top speed of 217.590 kph, good ... Read More
Pillows & Blankets

Pillows & Blankets

January 23, 2019January 24, 2019 Rick Bolger
so much going on…see photo above; gotta start with more apparent labor shenanigans at Jiminy Peak in the Berkshires. Seems that during the weekend snowstorm and deep freeze some employees were t... Read More
News Update, October 12

News Update, October 12

October 12, 2018 Rick Bolger
When we shut down this blog in June, left off with the heartbreaking story of Bode and Morgan Miller losing their young daughter Emmy in a tragic swimming pool accident….so we’ll kick the ... Read More
4/5/18 News, News, and more News!

4/5/18 News, News, and more News!

April 5, 2018April 5, 2018 Rick Bolger
Any guess at the photo above? Answer below…Season is winding down despite wall-to-wall snow at areas east, west, and midwest…first we’ll do some real news and then kind of cover some... Read More
3/29/18 News Roundup

3/29/18 News Roundup

March 29, 2018March 29, 2018 Rick Bolger
Final weekend for a bunch of areas, including one of our webcam favorites which is Michigan’s Caberfae Peaks. They’re banging it up this Sunday, although as you can see from today’s ... Read More
2/27/18 Western Swing

2/27/18 Western Swing

February 27, 2018February 27, 2018 Rick Bolger
As promised, a quick tour of the western ski regions…photo above from our buddy Ronnie yesterday at Snowbird UT, which I suppose is kinda obvious. The Bird claimed to receive 11″ overnight... Read More
2/16/18 Finally x 3; Right Ponies/Wrong Race

2/16/18 Finally x 3; Right Ponies/Wrong Race

February 16, 2018 Rick Bolger
Finally snowing at Taos Ski Valley, 9″ overnight and much needed to get more open. What they had was actually pretty good, according to my buddy Mark S. who was on the New Mexico hill earlier th... Read More
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