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Still Connecting With the Snow in Conn.

The riding season wind-down is in full swing in Connecticut, and crafty riders are still hunting down the snow and open trails. They don't have to look too far. Take Mohawk Mountain, still sporting a 46-inch base and nearly two-dozen trails offering fine riding, re-opening at noon on Friday and keeping night hours, too. Full Article

27th March 2007
Conn. Gets Its Spring On, Slope-Style

Here we are at March's last gasp and at many Connecticut areas, most trails remain open. That means the riding is easy this weekend, with warmer temps and still plenty of powder, packed and not. Mohawk Mountain has been giving us nearly two dozen trails at spring's cusp. Full Article

18th March 2007
Connecticut Springs Into More Riding

Riders in Connecticut are bound and determined to soak in every moment of riding in a season that came late and gifted us with decent snow in March. Hanging on to every drop it can is Mohawk Mountain, still hitting on over 20 trails and an empty events calendar to free up riders just to drink in the mountain. Full Article

13th March 2007
Riders Rise to the Occasion in Conn.

The riding is as good as it gets in a Connecticut March, and that's both good and bad. The good: it's good. The bad: March, and mid-March, means we're winding down. Still, there's good ridin' ahead. Full Article

4th March 2007
Connecticut On the March With Snow

What's that we hear? Why, it's the roar of the March lion, telling us the snow came late but it's carrying us well toward spring. And the mountains are celebrating. Mohawk Mountain kicks things off on Friday, with a womens ski clinic, beginning at 9:30 a.m. and ending at 11:30 a.m. The $62.50 tab includes an all-day lift ticket and lunch. Full Article

26th February 2007
Connecticut Cuts Through the Snow

A slammin' storm has blessed us with the messes, but on the hills, it's nothing but smiles and riding hard. The midseason is jamming with more trails, more fun and enough powder to carry us deep into March. Full Article

20th February 2007
Nor'Easter Makes Conn. Resorts Smile

Ski area operators in Connecticut finally received some happy news this winter, courtesy of an unforgiving nor'easter, dumping tons of fresh powder in the Northeast at midweek. Full Article

14th February 2007
Connecticut Says 'Come Take a Break'

A long holiday weekend in February for some stretches into a long holiday week. What the heck. There's an excuse this year. The snow came late and we're more than ready to roll. Full Article

13th February 2007
Connecticut Connects With Good Ridin'

Skiers and boarders are happily connecting with the terrain in Connecticut with the cold temparatures chillin' for a bit. That's securing February as the best month so far of the 2006/07 season. Definitely not chillin' are those magical snowmakers on the hills of our favorite resorts, as they keep the snow-making machinery doing what it was made to do. Full Article

6th February 2007
Connecticut Chills With Winter

We knew winter would come, and it did, slow and all, but it's here. Reports are that the riding over the weekend was aces, and it's only going to get better. The cold is supposed to stick around, snowmakers are going 24/7 and February is crammed with stuff to do. Full Article

30th January 2007
Winter Wanders Into Connecticut

Riders in Connecticut finally are getting a taste of the real thing as winter saunters in, a month late, but certainly welcome. Mohawk Mountain greeted it with continuous blasts of snowmaking - and more trail openings. Full Article

22nd January 2007
Connecticut Snowmakers Gunning It

Connecticut mountains and Connecticut riders are hoping a winter blast hunkers down long enough for continuous days of snowmaking and the end of a so-far heartbreaking season. Full Article

15th January 2007
Connecticut Hills Welcome Cold Return

This (so-far) warmer-than-usual unusually warm winter has been experienced in the past. Your parents, grandparents or great-grandparents remember Depression-era winters where there was no snow. Ah, but that's in the past, as is this (so far) warner-than-usual winter. Full Article

7th January 2007
Snow Mostly a No-Show In Connecticut

Don't let unusually warm winter temps get you down. The magic men and women working the hills of Connecticut's ski areas are bravely facing the mild weather by grabbing those evening below-freezing digits and rolling with them, making what the skies aren't giving. Full Article

31st December 2006
Ski Sundown Calling All Families

Don't look at it like more than half the trails are closed. Look at it like almost half of the trails are open. In an early winter that feels more like early spring, we'll take it, we'll take it. Full Article

26th December 2006
Mount Southington Rail Jam Rallies

Mount Southington, like much of the Northeast and New England, is running on snow fumes, but riders are still bangin' it out, despite the dearth of decent snow storms. Full Article

26th December 2006
Mohawk Parties Like It's 1947

Connecticut's Mohawk Mountain gets its party on during the holiday break - and you get the present. In honor of the resort's 60th anniversary, the first 60 cars that roll in on Tuesday will be charged the lift ticket price of 1947. Full Article

19th December 2006
First In: Woodbury Connects-ticut

It all adds up. Four lifts and four trails doesn't sound like a lot, but Connecticut's Woodbury Ski Area has trail credibility. Full Article

12th December 2006
Ski Sundown and Party Like It's 2007

Dust off your boards and your Electric Boogaloo, Ski Sundown in New Haven and other Connecticut ski areas are racing toward a pre-mid-December opening. Full Article

28th November 2006
Mohawk Riding a Hair's Breadth Away

Seriously, can a projected Saturday opening be that far away? Full Article

21st November 2006