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The Long Run: How a Baltimore Engineer Helped Reinvent the Ski

The Long Run: How a Baltimore Engineer Helped Reinvent the Ski

DCSki's new Long Run series begins with the Baltimore-area origins of Howard Head's composite ski. Drawing on his aircraft-engineering experience, Head overcame repeated failures to develop a commercially successful wood-and-metal design that helped move skiing toward modern composite construction.
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DCSki Resort Profiles Updated for the 2026–2027 Winter Season

DCSki Resort Profiles Updated for the 2026–2027 Winter Season

DCSki has completed its 2026–2027 Resort Profile updates, refreshing information on 30 Mid-Atlantic ski areas. Explore detailed mountain statistics, interactive maps, weather forecasts, driving directions, and tools for comparing resorts and planning ski trips.
Whatever Happened to the Halfpipe?

Whatever Happened to the Halfpipe?

Once a familiar sight at Mid-Atlantic ski resorts, halfpipes have largely disappeared. DCSki looks back at their heyday, the challenges of maintaining them, and a recent revival at Seven Springs.
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Mountain Weather

Mid-Atlantic Skiers' Forecast

Updated 38 minutes ago

The coming days look mild and mostly dry for skiing, with sunshine and highs generally in the 50s and 60s through Veterans Day. Lower-elevation areas will be warmest -- Massanutten reaches 70 Tuesday, while Liberty Mountain and Whitetail reach the mid-60s. Overnight lows mostly fall into the 30s and 40s, offering limited snowmaking potential, though colder mountain locations have somewhat better windows.

Rain arrives Thursday across much of the region, followed by a late-day or nighttime change toward rain and snow in the higher terrain. Snowshoe, Canaan Valley Resort, Timberline, and Wisp are among the colder spots, with Thursday highs in the 40s and nighttime lows near or below freezing. The Poconos and western Pennsylvania also may see rain/snow, but the forecast does not indicate a meaningful natural-snow event yet. Wind could be noticeable at times, especially Monday and around the late-week system.

Weather Fact of the Day
A mountain can enhance snowfall even when no obvious storm center is nearby through **upslope flow**. Persistent wind pushes moist air against the windward Appalachians, forcing it upward to cool and condense; if the wind direction holds, narrow snow bands can keep redeveloping over the same ridges while nearby valleys receive little or none.
DCSki regional outlook based on National Weather Service forecasts for Mid-Atlantic ski areas.
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SkiEssentials Nov 6

Top Five Fridays: November 6, 2026

Beaver Creek is automating snowmaking on its Birds of Prey venue ahead of seven December World Cup races. New guns, weather monitoring, buried communications lines, and automated controls are designed to capture brief snowmaking windows and improve course-preparation efficiency.

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Road Trips "R" Us

Road Trips “R” Us

Jim Kenney recounts the beautiful, crazy, scary, lucky, and tasty moments gathered during decades of ski road trips across North America.
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