We’re just about one month away from our first ski selection trip of the year. As we gather orders and build our pick-list, we’re putting out some information on what we learned from the past season, and what we expect from our big industry partners in the next season. There is a lot of good […]

Today’s cold snowfall notwithstanding, we’re calling it spring here, and have starting spring cleaning. Yesterday I tackled the kitchen pantry, and Amy reviewed all of our wax inventory in order to put old packaging on sale at clearance prices. In the next couple of days I’ll sort out our demo ski inventory and will put […]

Today was an ideal day for skiing, and completely useless for any kind of testing for Saturday’s race. The forecasted cold overnight temperatures were surpassed (we woke up to -15F), and the daytime temps appeared to top out somewhere near 25F. Jeff Tumbleson gave me a tour of various road crossings in the early afternoon, […]

Greeting from Hayward! In a demonstration of great weather-related foresight  and judgement, we hit the road Monday evening instead of Tuesday morning in order to drive in cold snowy conditions instead of terribly icy conditions. The most recent majorly disgusting eastern El-Nino driven storm was pretty easy to read, and us easterners know when we […]

We’re going to the Birkie! As you’d expect, we’ve started getting emails and calls about Birkie wax and Birkie skis. With Tad living in the house and reviewing race video every evening to further hone his already sharp tactical acumen, the fever has pretty well set-in around here. Here’s the program: Caldwell Sport Service for […]

We’re just coming off a fun and successful weekend of race service at the UVM Carnival / Eastern Cup / Super Tour races in Craftsbury. The races were originally scheduled for Stowe, but moved to Craftsbury where the combination of snowmaking and infrastructure investment once again proves to be the only thing left in the […]