Skiers and snowboarders kicking off the 2025/2026 winter season (Courtesy of Snowshoe Mountain 2025) SNOWSHOE, W.Va. – Snowshoe Mountain welcomed the start of the 2025-26 ski season today, December ...

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Just under two hours from Denver, Colorado, Rocky Mountain National Park’s unrivaled stretch of craggy, snow-capped peaks and 355 miles of hiking trails attracts nearly 3.3 million visitors annually.

It’s that time of the year when many of Washington’s trails are buried deep in snow, signaling to swap out your hiking boots for snowshoes. This year, skip the well-trod routes like Gold Creek Pond ...

From leather straps and Kandahar Bindings, the way we clip into our skis has come a long way. Humans have been skiing for just about as long as we’ve lived in snowy places. For millennia, skiing was ...

Head to head with four of this year’s most popular backcountry freeride bindings. Skiers have always been seeking to eke out every bit of performance they can in the backcountry, but there’s long been ...

On a recent warm spring day in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, wildlife biologist Alexej Siren found something exciting: snowshoe hare tracks in a fleeting patch of snow. “We have these larger hind ...

More than 150 years ago, a man trekked 90 miles across the snowy Sierra Nevada to deliver mail for 20 years, but the federal government never paid him. Locals today haven’t forgotten. That man was ...

In fact, on a few winter snowshoe adventures up various peaks in Colorado, including Mount Yale (14,199′) and Mount Ouray (13,960′), we put these snowshoes on at the very beginning and didn’t have to ...

SNOWSHOE, W.Va. — Fifty years ago, during Snowshoe Mountain Resort’s first ski season, it took more than four hours to make the drive from Charleston to the state’s newest ski area, accessed by ...