Vancouver Skiers’ love letter to Methow Valley, Washington State X-C Ski area near Winthrop, Washington. Five ways we love you. Dear Methow Valley, Your name (so elegant, like The Met, and ‘ow’ like an après-ski-fall) is the site of North America’s largest Nordic skiing area. Your 200 kms (120 miles) of daily-groomed trails celebrates its […]
Vancouver Skiers: Rocky Mountain Road Trip Feb. 16-21, 2016 Skiing is a dance, and the mountain always leads. ~Author Unknown The Vancouver Skiers‘ trip to Rocky Mountain nordic or cross-country skiing locales (skate and classic style) provided so much detail, flexibility and choice in ski and apres-ski planning. What a Rocky-Mountain Rollick, under the leadership […]
If A Tree Falls…? Forty-two Vancouver Skiers fled the Lower Mainland’s Sunday drizzle for a snowier destination to Manning Park on January 18, 2015. Jason, our International Stage Lines driver, assured us we’d be on the soft stuff by 10:15, and indeed we were. Jason stayed throughout the day, at Lightning Lakes, so most skiers timed their […]
A full International Stage Lines busload of Vancouver Skiers with Orville at the helm left Vancouver’s mild, foggy condition for the snowy interior on January 9, 2015. We arrived at Stake Lake, 25 kilometers south of Kamloops to enjoy over three hours of expertly-groomed and track set conditions. With an elevation between 1270 and 1410 […]
Vancouver Skiers to Stake Lake and Larch Hills Friday to Sunday Jan. 24-26, 2014 As Vancouver Skiers depart for some cross country skiing at Stake Lake (near Kamloops) and Larch Hills (near Salmon Arm), two distinct streaks of cloud give the eastern sky a gold-encrusted flair. One is a snow omen. Snow we cross country […]
We’re heading for some Cariboo Hills Nordic Skiing with the Vancouver Skiers. We leave the city over the Port Mann and the Mighty Fraser. Frozen farmland is waking up, and there’s a pink ribbon along the horizon. The sky brightens to eggshell. Many animal tracks crisscross the trails. What are they? Rabbits? Deer? Moose? Where […]