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Review: Mountain Athletics app from The North Face

First, there was the rollicking beauty of the ad featuring My Morning Jacket’s cover of “Your Land” with a backdrop of the country’s most gorgeous mountains and seascapes. Then, there were the videos...

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Happy holidays!

Wishing you light, love and adventure (plus at least a little bit of snow) in 2015! New York’s high peaks from Gore last weekend.  

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4th Annual 100K Vertical Challenge at Whitetail Resort

On Feb. 9, I will again be part of a group of skiers and snowboarders who will descend 100,000 vertical feet in one day, or 107 runs at Whitetail Resort in Mercersburg, PA. Our 12-plus-hour adventure...

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She Jumps: Get the Girls Out at Berkshire East, ambassadorship

The She Jumps team was ready to board the lift at Berkshire East for our third annual Get the Girls Out event there on Jan. 9 when a woman and her pre-teen daughter approached us. They wanted to...

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Powder day at Gore (with an unlikely skiing partner)

I woke up last Monday missing my dad terribly. On Sunday, a patroller-friend had turned me onto a bluegrass cover of one of my favorite songs, “Such Great Heights.” I listened to it over and over when...

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4th Annual 100K Vertical Challenge at Whitetail Resort

Every year, we’ve lucked out on weather for the 100K Vertical Challenge at Whitetail Resort in Mercersburg, Penn. On Monday, our weather luck ran out, and when the 4th annual event began at 8 a.m., we...

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Pretty Faces tour coming to Saratoga Springs, NY!

When a video promo for Pretty Faces came up in my Facebook news feed one afternoon a couple years ago, I was riveted. I played it over and over, watching women dropping cliffs, shredding big lines,...

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Pretty Faces movie benefiting SheJumps in Saratoga Springs, NY

It’s been nearly a week since our showing of Pretty Faces in Saratoga Springs, NY, to benefit SheJumps, and I’m still riding on the high of it. Until showtime on Saturday night, I wasn’t sure whether...

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Tales from a 50-day ski season

What a magnificent ski season it’s been! I think I’m finally ready to admit it’s over. This means spending some time reminiscing about the things that made this season special. Will you indulge me? No?...

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Signs of summer: Lake swimming begins

It’s raining in Saratoga Springs today, and the temperature is barely cracking the 50-degree mark. Water is pooling in the potted plants I haven’t transferred to garden boxes yet, and I’m wearing a...

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Three down, 43 to go: Nippletop Mountain

“Are you guys going for your 46ers?” the woman asked, nibbling on some Swedish Fish as she took in the view on top of Nippletop Mountain. I shrugged. We were standing on top of one of the Adirondacks’...

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Endorphins and awe

This post has been at the tip of my virtual tongue for months. I started to think about writing it at the end of the summer. Last weekend, Jonny Moseley announced at the end of this year’s Warren...

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Workout of the week: Justin Michael Williams’ core sequence

I’m on a constant search for the next new core exercise—the twist or tweak that will render the standard few abdominal exercises (plank, sit up, crunch) nearly un-doable, and therefore super-valuable...

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(Mostly) Wordless Wednesday: Thanksgiving plans

Not pictured: A comfy couch. A warm blankie. And SO much pie. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

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Simple, foolproof homemade Greek yogurt in the slow cooker

A couple years ago, my breakfast life changed forever. I made yogurt at home, and I’ve never turned back. In fact, if anything, I’ve leaned in, and have developed what I’m pretty sure is the simplest...

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An atmosphere of growth

I’ve become a bit of a Gretchen Rubin fanatic over the past few months after picking up The Happiness Project, her bestselling book on how to build a happier life within the framework of the life...

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How I’m starting 2016: Snowshoeing at Mont Tremblant

What’s a skier-girl to do when winter takes its sweet time arriving? If you’re me, you try snowshoeing (have you ever heard a snowshoer complain about trail conditions?). Snowshoeing at Ski de fond...

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The victory of being lost in thought

I have a beginner-skier friend whose skiing self-talk is so overwhelmingly positive and cheerful (“Look at you!” she tells herself as she turns. “You’re doing it!”), it’s made me reconsider my own...

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Pre-work: Yoga and meditation teacher training 2016

I signed up for yoga and meditation teacher training last fall, committing to 200 hours of instruction come springtime. Springtime is here, and the training actually begins on Saturday (gulp). There’s...

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Yoga and meditation teacher training: The first 90 hours

How can I even begin to describe the first 90 hours of my 200-hour yoga and meditation teacher training? Amazing. Intense. Life-changing. And, well, like, really hard to describe. Our teacher is big on...

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