PART 1 OF THIS STORY IS HERE. PLEASE READ IT SO YOU DON’T WALK INTO MACBETH AT THE BEGINNING OF A CT IV🙂 1962 – GUNSTOCK ARRIVES 1962 saw the next great step for the mountain: renaming and modernization. A new $250,000 Mueller double chair finally reached the summit of Gunstock Mountain, a lift that became the backbone of the resort and a seed from which...
***FROM THE SATELLITE OFFICE IN HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT*** While we wait for some interview subjects to get back to us, enjoy this amazingly fun musical interlude. Back in the day, the Hartford Whalers sailed the Adams Division seas of the NHL in their green and blue uniforms. The team never won a Stanley Cup, nor played in the Finals, but they were renowned and...
McCALL, ID – So shoot me, I never learned what a shot-ski was until long after college. “You don’t spend enough time in ski town bars,” my skiing wingman intoned, chuckling, and he’s right. That’s because I didn’t spend much time in ski towns period. As a kid it was condos at Sugarbush, my cousin’s house (and big, BIG jacuzzi) at Whiteface, or my college pal’s...
[Author’s Note: Massachusetts’ Tedesco Country Club, a course designed and redesigned by many hands, including Wayne Stiles, Jon Van Kleek, and Donald Ross, and most recently renovated by Ron Forse, is named after one of the most famous shipwrecks in New England, the cargo bark Tedesco, which sank in a blizzard offshore over 160 years ago. To stretch my legs as a bit...
***STOP THE PRESSES!*** Saveur the Journey, perhaps the country’s premiere skiing/snowboarding and culinary tour operator has just announced openings for their imminent French Alps tour at reduced prices. Saveur the Journey specializes in bucket list trips for skiers, snowboarders, fisherfolk, and other outdoorsy types who also are foodies in the biggest way...
Torrey the Prediction Cat correctly hit the Chiefs and the OVER in his Super Bowl pick to finish the playoff season at 4-3 in teasers, 9-4 over all. Meanwhile, Chiefs win, Niners blow it, Taylor goes to after parties, I puke, the end. This is the 19th consecutive season the animal prognosticators in this column have finished the season above .500. Torrey will now...
Big props to the KitzbĂĽhel Ski Club, the organizer of the Hahnenkamm Races, for alerting the skiing world that the FIS – the International Skiing Federation – celebrated its 100th birthday on February 2. Following an International Winter Sports Week held in in Chamonix from the last week of January 1924, which was also the first Winter Olympic Games...
Torrey the Prediction Cat went 3-1 overall last week, 1-1 in teasers, bringing his playoff totals to 8-4 overall, 3-3 in teasers. The lone blemish was the UNDER hit in RAVENS-chiefs because Baltimore turned the ball over at the goal line twice in the fourth quarter. And as for Justin Tucker, WTH? C’mon man, you’re the kicker. Leave that to the linebackers...
[Author’s Note:Â This is Part 1 of a 2-part series on New Hampshire’s Gunstock Mountain.Though usually overlooked when discussing the gnarliest terrain in the east, Gunstock’s contributions to skiing history are monumental, dating all the way back to the primordial age of the sport in America. Small, but plucky, what Gunstock lacks in haute chic, it...
Torrey the Prediction Cat went 3-1 last week, 1-1 in teasers, making his payoff record thus far 5-3 overall and 2-2 in teaser picks. He hit with the Buccaneers covering against the Lions and the BILLS-chiefs game going OVER. And despite “Wide Right Reprise” Torrey covered with the Bills as part of the teaser parley. His lone miss was the Niners failed to...
The Tush Push got smushed, the Fish got squished and the Cowgirls spit the bit again. What that means for you, Dear Bettor, is that Torrey the Prediction Cat went 1-1 in teaser picks, 2-2 over all. He hit with the Bills and the OVER in his opening pick, while Dallas went down in flames, (hey, at least there were flames), and Miami sputtered on offense. Undaunted by...
So wait, is it Super Duper Duper Wild card weekend, or are there more dupers in there? Asking for a friend. Actually, the dupers in this case may be the Pittsburgh “How the hell are we in the playoffs?” Steelers. They’re the NFL equivalent of John Daly “dressing up” for Champions Dinner of either the Open Championship or PGA, take your...
How wonderful:Â a United States team won a world title AND looked great on the international stage. And best of all, after smothering host nation Sweden 6-2 in the gold medal game, the team belted out the National Anthem together – proudly and loudly. That’;s how we like our athletes – grateful, affable, and noble. Not entitled, preening, and money...
PLYMOUTH, NH – Sometimes it takes a legend to build a legend. Or in the case of Tenney Mountain Ski Resort it took a legend to rebuild a legend. Extreme skiing pioneer, Warren Miller film star, and Hall of Fame skier Dan Egan and a team from North Country Development Group led by Steven Kelly have reopened Tenney, for many decades a New Hampshire go-to ski...
Get ready, golf world, because a new dynamo has appeared on the scene. From the same family – the Kaisers – that brought you Bandon Dunes and Streamsong comes more than a proper rejoinder from Wisconsin, but rather another magnum opus. Already rightly famous for twin public masterpieces Sand Valley by _____ and Mammoth Dunes by, the resort recently...