Telemark skiing

other people are out, and everything is still and quiet. That's when Tom Gross most enjoys finding his stride — cross country skiing in his favorite, secret spot in York County. Gross, a York Suburban graduate, has been cross country skiing for about 50 years. But he started out on downhill skis. "I got to a point where I wanted to go where it was really good (downhill) skiing, so I moved to Colorado in '74 or '75," Gross said. "I was single, and I just picked up and left." He planned to get…

Our lives are consumed with challenges and in most cases the result is pain. The worst type of pain is realizing that in the blink of a moment your dream has become unreachable. We heard a swoosh and a creak as the wicked wind pushed and pulled the vulnerable cart. I felt my warm blood sink from my frozen face and my back began to stick to my tight fitted coat. I looked up at the rest of the ski carts which were moving in sync, following each other into oblivion. My eyes then wondered down as I…

After doing some research, I discovered there is quite a bit more to the Rocky Mountains than high altitudes and pretty mountain views. First, I found the Rocky Mountains may not be here much longer. In The Rocky Mountains' Largest Glaciers Are Melting with Little Fanfare, Storrow talks to outdoor education professor Darran Wells, who has watched the glaciers on the mountains’ faces shrink year after year. Within the next one hundred years, all the ice on the mountains may be completely gone.…

for the sizable slope that I thought to be my impending doom. When I departed from the lift I turned my skis to position myself at the brink of slope. Then I tipped my skis over the edge of the hill with much initial regret. Throughout my years of skiing I had sprained joints, bruised limbs, and nearly broken bones. Despite my injuries, my goal remained untouched. I was determined to ski down the largest hill at Perfect North Slopes, Center Stage. For years I practiced turns, jumps, moguls, and…

It’s a snow day!! You gaze into the bright sky, and see the tiny little snowflakes falling. You try to catch them in your mouth. Wait, how do snowflakes form, why do they look the way they do, and how are they all different? Lets learn about snowflakes! To start off, snowflakes are fascinating and all, but how do they form? According to the article, Snow Day!, it can begin snowing at 32 degrees Fahrenheit. It being 32 degrees Fahrenheit the wonderful snowflakes will be enormous and stick to…

I’m a sponsored snowboarder who boards at Massanutten Mountain. I claim it as my home mountain. One day, up at Mass, I was with my boy Carl Leake. We’re both amatuer professional snowboarders. We were boarding all day, a 13 hour boarding day. The accident happened when we were about to leave the wintery wonderland. Carl and I just came off of MakkAttack which is a slope going down to the terrain park on Pacesetter which is another, smaller slope. They only put this sick terrain park up at the…

Everything went black, and I mean BLACK. That was the start of an experience that taught me to try new things. It happened to be my first year skiing. I flew around like a drunken man when we started, falling every time I stood up. To be honest, I was embarrassed but also determined. Slowly, day by day I improved. It was grueling but I did it. By the final day of skiing I was the best in the group. That same day, sometime in the beginning of January, I was at lessons. Everything went fine.…

My first experience of snow was like a snow globe, except it seemed whoever was shaking it wasn’t going to stop. Snow Globes are a model of a scene surrounded by particles of fake, white matter resembling snow, but when shaken it turns to a magnificent snowstorm. While I have many snow globes at my house collected from my childhood, this was the first one I was in. I think a lot about the countless times my dad has told me of stories of his childhood. His numerous adventures of snow days,…

After numerous failed skiing attempts, I was certain that I would not once place my feet in the stiff boots again. In hindsight, two runs down the mountain were not enough to make me an Olympic skier. Clumsily returning to ski school for the third year in a row, I again towered above all my fellow novices by approximately two feet. The three and four-year old children flew down the slopes with ease, making my attempt at skiing a pitiful sight to watch. Despite the embarrassment…

summer because their are snow days, you can play in the snow, and it is christmas time. First winter is better than summer because their are snow days. Snow days are great because you do not go to school. Snow days are also great because you can go skiing the whole day instead of just going a little bit after school. Finally snow days are great because you can play in the snow with all your friends because all of the school district…