Interview With Brian Newman, Gulmarg Snow Safety Director
Here is an interview with Brian, Gulmarg’s beloved snow safety director. He is quite a guy and has tackled the immense project of developing a snow safety plan for the huge ski resort while training a local ski patrol and maintaining a backcountry advisory.
TR: Patalsu Peak, 4200m
Allen and I are getting back in the TR game with this little update from India:
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As promised earlier, the blogging ban is being broken.
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In the great outdoor tradition of creating lists as a way to boast achievement, I decided that we should try to link a string of ski days together in New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine–the four states that form the border of the United States from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. Unfortunately however I really like saying the word “trifecta” a lot more than the words “four states,” so I decided that we could skip one state, and only ski three. Our choice (sorry Maine) was to ski in New York, Vermont and New Hampshire. Click the picture to find out how it went:
Coming Soon!
The forbidden blog post will be posted (yes, this was really at the trailhead)…
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Skiing by Mustache
After our running of the Stowe Derby (and our experience skiing by braille), we lost our guidebook, but still wanted to find the gnar. Christian’s solution was to just hold his hands up as if he were holding the guide book and hope we would remember which way it said to go.
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