Middlebury alum helps earn gold at 2026 Paralympics

Jake Adicoff (Bowdoin ‘19) and Peter Wolter (Middlebury ‘22) skied two gold-medal earning performances during the Milano Cortina games.

Let’s Nordic ski in the Eastern Townships, Part 1

“Parc national du Mont-Orford boasts 50 km for classic skiing and 26 km for skate skiing over a range of beginner, intermediate and advanced terrains.”

Tiger boys win Nordic skiing season debut

The Middlebury Union High School boys’ Nordic team on Tuesday won a season-opening sprint race on home snow at Rikert Outdoor Center, while the girls’ team took fifth. 

Growing older, warming climate changes baselines

“In the Champlain Valley, where the baseline has changed so much in just the first quarter of this century, you need to find some nostalgic old person like me to remember those days of 15 to 30 below zero.”

Pig Race revived at Blueberry Hill

Party cloudy skies with temps in the high 40s — plus an 8-inch snowfall the weekend before — created a near-perfect setting for the revival of Blueberry Hill’s famous Pig Race, which had run continuously from 1972 through 2007 under the direction of the l … (read more)

Take a snowy glide outside with your family

Remember when we used to do stuff indoors during the winter? My family used to spend an awful lot of time lingering in the Snow Bowl lodge, in Junebug, in the children’s room at Ilsley Library and the college field house. It’s been great to be outdoors al … (read more)