The Low O2 Challenge is snowshoe racing’s best-kept secret. A stunning course, great prizes, and everyone qualifies for nationals – at least this year. With only 15 people in the January 29 10K qualifier race, all finishers earned a ticket … Continue reading
Hot snowshoe racing is already a hallmark at the Phillips Flurry Phillips, Wisconsin, in only its second year. Jake Rhyner zipped the snow-packed course in a dominating 44:36, nearly three minutes quicker than Brent Kann’s inaugural race victory in 2011. … Continue reading
A company famous for producing top-quality racing snowshoes started more than 20 years ago, when necessity truly was the mother of invention. Redfeather snowshoes, owned by ORC Industries of LaCrosse, Wis., started in the highest city in the United States, … Continue reading
Next yuletide season tell Santa you’ve put the Hinsdale Haute Route Yurts on your Christmas list.
A yurt is a sort of Mongolian wigwam. Hannibal crossed the Alps in one. Santa Claus’s elves live in yurt communes, the little hipsters. … Continue reading
Nestled against the San Juan Mountains in the southwest corner of Colorado, Telluride was a boomtown in the state’s mining rush of the late 1800’s. Now, it is one of Colorado’s 22 ski resorts. Telluride is designated a National Historic … Continue reading
Sarah Raitter, pulling along her training partner Bill Raitter, tied at the line for the 2012 Mt. Shasta Snowshoe Race win held annually at the popular Mt. Shasta Nordic Center, open since 2006, “Where Quality Predominates.” The pair, both two-time … Continue reading
Off the line like a ball shot from a Scottish cannon, Jim McDonnel lept to lead the start of the seventh Snowshoe Shuffle Joe Holewa Memorial. Running in trail shoes as 2012’s winter has thrown its own fire into … Continue reading
Travis Macy snowshoed away with the Colorado State Snowshoe Championship, a race that is part of the Pedalpower Snowshoe Adventure Series, with a commanding win at 52:49. His deep snow performance lays down the gauntlet for the DION Snowshoes … Continue reading
Clement C. Moore expressed it poetically in The Night before Christmas when he wrote, “The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow gave the luster of midday to objects below.” I think of this passage just about every time … Continue reading
Rising above the skyline from 54 miles southeast of Seattle, Washington State’s highest and most prominent volcano in the Cascade Arc, is still considered one of the world’s most dangerous. Reaching an elevation of more than 14,000 feet, makes it … Continue reading
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