• David Lee Ghostlaw: Patriarch of a Gore Ski Family

    I started skiing in 1968 at Ski Dutchess in Beacon NY. It was at night and I was on rental skis. After setting off, I promptly rotated around and proceeded down the slope backwards until I fell on my behind. Pulling myself off the snow, something was ignited inside me and that fire still burns today. Skiing has rewarded me with some of the best moments and memories of my life. Twenty years earlier in Bombay NY, my future father-in-law, » Read More »
    Harvey Road: NYSkiBlog.com
  • You Don’t Have to Drink to Ski - Going big at the bar should never dictate how big you go on the mountain

    By Stacy Bare In 2007, I came home from Iraq after my last year in the U.S. Army. What followed was four years of rivers of booze and mountains of cocaine while trying to live a 'normal' life. At the two-year mark of being home, I started rock climbing. That gave me my first sense
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  • You Don’t Have to Drink to Ski

    By Stacy Bare In 2007, I came home from Iraq after my last year in the U.S. Army. What followed was four years of rivers of booze and mountains of cocaine while trying to live a ‘normal’ life. At the two-year mark of being home, I started rock climbing. That gave me my first sense Read More
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  • Arctic conditions force Cairngorm reindeer down mountain - Country diary, 21 April 1969

    21 April 1969 We found them grazing disconsolately on the edge of the forest, a 1000 feet below their usual habitatThe Cairngorms
    Even the reindeer seemed to find the arctic conditions trying in the Cairngorms the other day for we found them grazing disconsolately on the edge of the forest – a thousand feet lower down the mountain than their usual habitat. Higher up, on the skiing slopes, we were battling with ice, mist, blizzards and bitingly cold winds – all at the same time. In re
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