Can you really put a great day on skis into words? A great run? Even one good turn? The squeaky coldness of fresh Rocky Mountain powder snow? Or the yielding crunch of perfect corn snow in the sunny Sierra Nevada?

 

I don't know, but I've spent a lot of time trying. And here are the results: stories, tales, essays, prose poems and occasionally real poetry...

 

Click any of the titles below to go to that story, essay or poem.

 

1 This is Skiing, an essay.

2 Textbook Winter, an essay

3 Powder Yoga, a poem

4 Spring Snow, an essay

5 New Season's Resolutions, a poem

6 The Home Mountains, an essay

7 Waiting for Winter, a poem

8 A Passion for Winter, an essay

9 White Snow, Black Snow, an essay

10 Moguls, a poem

11 Endless Winter, a poem

12 Adventure, an essay

13 Colorado High Route, a story

14 White Lies, a poem

15 Relative Velocity, a poem

16 Ski It New! an essay

17 Bad Snow, a poem

18 By Itself, a poem

19 It's All Sliding, an essay

20 A Dinnertable Conversation, a poem

21 Two Poems

22 The Way It Is, an essay

23 Day by Day, a poem

24 Afterwords, a poem

25 All Snow, All Terrain, an essay

26 Winter Koans, a poem

27 Sci ed Amore, a poem

28 Ski School, two poems

29 Fifty Years, an essay

30 The Magic of Skiing

31 Whiteout, a poem

32 Winter Ends, a poem

33 Who Skis Whom? a poem

34 Climb to Conquer, a book review

35 Panta Rei (everything flows), a poem

36 In the Third Person, a poem

37 Nothing is Free, a poem

38 Midwinter, a poem

39 Rocky Mountain Winter, a poem

40 A new Season Begins, an essay

41 Where are the Snows of Yesteryear? an essay

42 Bear Creek Visions, a story

43 Rocky Mountain Winter, again, a poem

44 Powder Tracks, a poem

45 Skiing as Poetry, a reader writes

46 Re-imagining Skiing, an essay

47 Memories of Aspen Winters Past, a memoir

48 It's Almost Here, an essay

49 Marks in the Snow, a poem

50 Powder by the Numbers, a poem