Heading out on the MTB
With temperatures regularly above zero now (get your Blue Mountain spring lift tickets while you can!) it’s time for me to bust out the mountain bike. Today will be my first ride. On the cycling end, I’m pretty sure Highly Obsessed Steve has already been out a few times this year. I’m a little lazier [...]
Night Turns At Blue Mountain: Redux
A couple of weeks ago I headed to Blue Mountain on a Sunday evening for some night turns. I was pretty excited to go, as I expected a Sunday night at Blue to be relatively empty. Unfortunately, the hill was completely packed, and I had a less-than-stellar time. Given Blue always seems to be busy, [...]
Night Turns At Blue Mountain
Believe it or not, I’ve only been snowboarding one day in Ontario this year, and that was my first session. Tonight, it was back to the short, crowded hills of Ontario for another local day of riding. I headed to Blue Mountain mid-afternoon to get a bit of daytime riding in, followed by some nighttime [...]
Gotta Love Ontario
According to Blue Mountain’s snow report, they received 50 centimetres of snow in the last 24 hours. Wow. They’re only half operational, though, thanks to lousy road conditions. Rare epic Ontario powder day: ruined! (Moonstone is reporting 60 centimetres, and appears to be entirely open. If you can ditch work, you might want to head [...]
Snow is Big News Up Here
Web sites, television stations, newspapers and radio stations are all talking a lot about snow up here in Canada, both on the west coast and in Ontario. Among the stories making headlines: Once again, there is no snow in Ontario: Blue Mountain is down to a paltry six runs today thanks to a completely insane [...]
Blue Mountain Will Open This Weekend
Attention Ontario locals: Just got an e-mail from Blue Mountain stating it will open starting Friday. No word yet on what “open” means (one run? three? ten?). Regardless, it’s a far cry from last year, when most resorts were still closed in January. Weather is funny like that. I remember visiting Whistler in the middle [...]
Tremblant is Covered, and Tremblog Tells Us All About It
Tremblant is up and running, and apparently there’s snow all over the place; so says Tremblog, which is doing a fantastic job of covering the early days of the season up the 401 (and then some). In local news, Blue Mountain is in snowmaking mode, and so is Moonstone. Moonstone is tentatively planning to open [...]
