Stowe ice swimmer Charlotte Brynn won gold and broke four world records at the recent U.S. National Ice Swimming Championships in Chantilly, Va.
Last weekend saw the running of the Stowe Sugar Slalom, the final race of the season at Stowe, held at Spruce. The weekend features two days of racing, with many racers in costume, and sugar on snow at the finish. The first Sugar Slalom took place in 1939.
With more than five feet of snow in the month of March, and more than 250 inches throughout the season, Stowe Mountain Resort has extended its season a week to Sunday, April 21.
The Stowe Youth 10U Tier 3 hockey team, after winning the Vermont state championship at Norwich University in February, competed at the New England Regionals in Smithfield, R.I., on March 22-24, losing a close game to a tough Ridgefield, Conn., team.
The NCAA skiing championships were held in Steamboat Springs, Colo., March 6-9 as the top 40 collegiate Nordic and alpine skiers from across the country competed for the national title.
On Saturday and Sunday, March 23 and 24, swimmers from around the U.S. participated in the 3rd Vermonster Fundraising Pool Swim both at The Swimming Hole in Stowe and virtually.
The Red Bench Speaker Series presents, Part II: The second part of “One-on-One with the Father of Cross-Country Skiing, John Caldwell” will be held virtually on Thursday, March 14, 7 p.m., as part of the Red Bench Speaker Series of the Vermont Ski and Snowboard Museum.
A couple of Raider skaters selected to play in an annual all-star hockey game over the weekend helped land their teams on the scoreboard, even as their teams wound up on the losing end of the stick.
Saturday was the fifth annual Day for Jake at Stowe Mountain Resort honoring the late Jake Burton Carpenter of Stowe and Burton Snowboards. Hundreds of skiers and riders enjoyed the festivities in perfect spring conditions at the ski area.
On March 2 at Norwich University’s Kreitzberg Arena, the Vermont Youth Hockey State Tournament took center stage. Stowe Youth Hockey sent three teams to the championships, including the U12 girls’ squad.
The Champlain Valley Union girls’ alpine skiing team took back the state title from the defending champion Stowe Raiders after two days of downhill action last week, despite the Raiders winning the first day of competition.
The hockey season is over for the cooperative Stowe/Peoples Academy hockey teams, as the girls and boys both fell in the playoffs.
This year’s Rotary All-Star Hockey Classic is Saturday, March 16, at the Essex Skating Facility.
"On Snow" Snow News covers the people, trends and events of ski racing, snowboarding and free styling, plus the flavor of winter in the Stowe area.
This ski season is going out with a bang!
The star of this week’s tale has to be Mother Earth, which delivered 23 inches of snow, an earthquake and a total eclipse of the sun.
This week I’m continuing to use the 1960 American International Ski Races program as an inspiration. Before I get started, I did receive other correct answers to my Sans Souci trivia question.
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