Mountain Notes

Over ten years ago, in my first months as an editor at Powder, one of my best friends was killed in Afghanistan. Ben Osborn and I skied together, but laughed...

Powdr Launches “Fast Tracks” Lanes at Killington, Snowbird, Copper, and Mt. Bachelor Written by Stuart Winchester Your upgrade actually wasn’t an upgrade Imagine this: Six months ago, you threw down...

Written by Phil Johnson    Mike Rogge is on a mission.  The Queensbury High School alumnus, a 2004 graduate who spent many years as a West Mountain skier, believes that...

  April 12, 2021 (North Lake Tahoe, CA) —Mountain Gazette, a bi-annual, large format print title founded in 1966, is pleased to welcome Conor Sedmak as Associate Publisher. Sedmak joins...

Editor's Note: This story original appeared in Mountain Gazette 194. As a rule we do not post editorial from the magazine online. With today being the first ever International Snowblade...