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The Ski Resort That Never Happened
Some of the region’s best backcountry skiing is found on a mountain once slated for a ski resort
A handful of guys with guns strapped to their shoulders are hovering around the trailhead. They have thick beards and orange hats. They’re laughing and drinking coffee. When we drive up, they get quiet.
It’s the first day [...]
Knight Owl: 24-Hour Mountain Bike Racing Inventor Laird Knight
From a small outpost in Davis, W.Va., Laird Knight took mountain biking to the next level. In 1992 Knight put on 24 Hours of Canaan, the world’s first 24-hour race. The initial ride had only 36 teams, and now the format has achieved global popularity. Knight’s company, Granny Gear Productions, hosts three of America’s most [...]
Editor’s Picks
MOST MEMORABLE MOMENTS FROM THE BRO EDITORIAL TEAM
I’ll never forget using night-vision goggles to look for Bigfoot in the woods near Quantico at 2 a.m. (“In Search of Bigfoot,” August 2008).
—Graham Averill, Senior Editor
On one of my first assignments for Blue Ridge Outdoors (“Ferris’ Week Off,” July 2003), I spent a week straight tackling a [...]
New Ski Resort in West Virginia?
West Virginia delegate John Doyle has introduced a bill (HB4192) that, if passed, would create a West Virginia Ski Resort Industry Commission designed to identify potential locations for new ski resorts, according to a recent article by the Charleston Gazette. The Mountain State currently has four downhill resorts that bring in 800,000 tourists and $250,000 [...]
Carved and Waxed: Southern Ski Resorts Open This Weekend
Get to your local ski shop and get the gear ready—the Southern ski season is upon us. Temps are going to drop as the end of the week approaches with snow expected in the Virginias. Snowshoe Mountain already has the guns blazing and lifts will start running this Saturday, December 5. The same goes for [...]
Telemark Destinations
The single best reason to learn to telemark?
“It makes a small mountain a lot bigger,” says Brian McCormick, a ski patroller at Wisp Resort in Maryland. “Wisp has 600 vertical feet, and I ski there two dozen days a year. I needed something to make it more interesting, so I started to telemark.”
Tapping into the [...]