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Telemark Festivals In Northern Michigan
It has been a little chilly up here latley. My wife and I had a geothermal unit installed this fall and it is great - we were a little worried about the prolonged cold snaps...something about 500 feet of tubing buried 6 feet below the ground for insulation took care of that. This Sunday The Outfitter is hosting the 10th annual Nub's Nord at Nub's Nob. Nub's Nord is a great way to try telemark demo skis, ski with telemarkers fro all over the sate, eat pizza and have fun! All you have to do is sh… Continue
Posted on March 4th, 2009 at 8:29pm —
Why try Telemarking
We stood atop Smooth Sailing, an excellent Blue run at Nub's Nob in Harbor Springs, my student and I, our tele tips poised on the edge. An excellent alpine skier and snowboarder is he, yet we were waiting, seeking out the best looking line. We hemmed, we hawed, we talked about weighting the skis and staying low in the tele turn all the way through; then, after much fidgeting, we plunged. Telemarking is about two things, in my simple mind: grace and power. It is also, in the midwest, about re-le… Continue
Posted on January 15th, 2009 at 6:12pm — 2 Comments
Groomin' Trails
For about twenty-five years, The Outfitter has groomed the cross country ski trails at Birchwood - a large, wooded subdivision north of Harbor Springs. Our good family friends, owners of The Outfitter for twenty-three years, began the ritual and we continue it. With the same snowmobiles. Grooming trails truly is a labor of love - an exercise that emphasises the reward at the end of the tunnel. The end result is awesome for skiers: pefectly laid-out tracks that ribbon around through the trees ov… Continue
Posted on December 4th, 2008 at 12:15am — 2 Comments
Telemark Dreaming
Some of my favorite things about about fall have ended: the campaign ads. We had an inch or two of snow in our yard last week, and today it was an outstandingly beautiful 70 degree day. Wowzer. All of the sudden we can see the corn field on the other side of the woods on our drive into school - the leaves are down, the turkeys are strutting and the coyotes are yipping after rabbits in the cool nights. Arlo and Willa, our wonderdogs, treed a ginormous porcipine yesterday (treed, thank god: leath… Continue
Posted on November 4th, 2008 at 10:00pm — 2 Comments
Autumn Bounty
Molly, my wife, and our three kids picked apples last week at my folks' place. A lot of apples. Apples may well be the zucchini of the fruit world: "it didn't seem like I planted that many..." One taste of these home-grown, 10' cyclone fence-protected, lovingly-pruned and hastily-picked beauties, though, and you know fall: tart, crisp and gone too soon.
Yesterday, four friends and I kayaked on a little inland lake just… Continue
Posted on October 15th, 2008 at 3:00pm — 2 Comments
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