Cheat Mountain Magic to the Rescue
Since the early 2000s, there’s been a crew of us from Huntington who have trekked to the mountains during the MLK holiday weekend to gather up, celebrate our friendship and mutual love of skiing, winter sports, and exploring the outdoors, with, of course, a side order of music, food and a wee dram of shenanigans. […]
Only in WV – Skiing Down A Highway
SLATYFORK, W.Va. – Saturday afternoon holiday weekend crowds were growing by the second and suddenly the Ballhooter lift line at Snowshoe was more packed than the Internet was with Bernie Sanders memes after Inauguration Day. With an abundance of “Cheat Mountain Magic,” (see endless sky of snow) three folks in our Huntington crew decided to […]
Ski Well, Be Well – Mountain State Style Social Distancing
With Huntington chalking up its largest snow since 2010 in December, the fever to bust out of the Ohio River Valley (the lowest elevation in WV) and jet up to the snow-covered mountains to ski has been growing exponentially with each passing day. Finally on Saturday, Jan. 2, the Dave Trippin’ crew made a day […]
Timberline – Getting Makeover
DAVIS, W.Va. – Officials with Perfect North Slopes, the new owners of Timberline Mountain, have announced that skiers and snowboarders will be riding to the top on a brand new 6-passenger high speed chairlift next winter. The brand new Doppelmayr 6-passenger lift will be the first of its kind in West Virginia. In addition, the ski […]
How to ski with kids without losing your sanity
With four downhill ski resorts and some of the best terrain in the Mid-Atlantic, the Mountain State of West Virginia is a prime place to learn to ski. While we thank God every time we ski that are kids can now dress themselves, here’s a few tips we learned (often the hard way) on taking […]
Cool It Now!! A Dozen Places to Paddle, Explore and Play This Summer
In a summer that has the country practically locked down and Kanye West running for President, suffice to say the only certainty is that nothing is normal or predictable and anything can happen. Although God only knows what the rest of summer holds, there’s two things I am betting on. One is that Coronavirus will […]
Buffalo Creek Rail Rides
Go Take A Ride Or Pedal The Rails CLAY, W.Va. – As the third most forested state West Virginia is blessed to have so many ways to explore the splendor of its wilds from whitewater rafting, ziplining and trams, to hot air ballooning, paddleboarding and skiing. Add to that Rail Biking – cycling on specially-made […]
Sawbones: Listen! Learn! Laugh! Wash Your Hands! Repeat!
These days you can’t turn on the TV in America without seeing one of America’ three medical musketeers – our frontline physicians and public health experts – Surgeon General Jerome Adams, Anthony Fauci (director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) and Sanjay Gupta (chief medical correspondent for CNN) – spreading the gospel […]
COVID 19 OUTDOORS POLICIES
Cue the David Bowie because there are almost daily “Ch-ch-changes.” And these quarantine days, changes mean more and more closures for area parks and recreation facilites. Here’s the latest updates from our Tri-State area state parks, forests and natural resource areas and what is closed and open in regional cities. HUNTINGTON The Greater Huntington Park […]
Covid 19 Outdoors Policies in the Tri-State
Stay Safe While Staying Active With three states and varying policies, we’ve put together the latest listings for what the responses to Covid-19 are in Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia as well as U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-managed properties in our Tri-State region. In general, all policies have this in common that hiking, biking and exploring […]