• Plattekill: Riley Season

    Saturday wasn’t my first time driving south to ski Plattekill, but it was the first time “leaving home” to do it. I’m now 30 minutes closer to one of my favorite ski areas and the drive is much more relaxed than traveling north out of New Jersey. No matter how much Google Maps insists I take the shortest route, I’m sticking to the interstates as much as I can: 87, 90 and 88. Once you are off I-88, it’s a » Read More »
    The NYSkiBlog: NYSkiBlog.com
  • What Counts as a Powder Day? We Asked More Than 1,000 Skiers

    What Counts as a Powder Day? We Asked More Than 1,000 Skiers
    Welcome to another weekly result from POWDER’s Department of Polls and Skier Opinion. The subject this week? Powder days. Or, more accurately, what counts as a powder day. Depending on where you live and ski, the amount of snow that is cause for celebration—and powder panic—might vary. Our friends who ski at Alta probably don’t get too excited when three inches fall overnight. They’re used to some of the biggest dumps on the planet, after all. The story, we pos

Follow @Skiing_nws_USA on Twitter!