SEASON 2

Bad news for my haters: I’m back.

It’s October 15. Somewhere out there, Mariah Carey is unfreezing and, in a matter of weeks, you won’t be able to escape the song “All I Want for Christmas.” Wherever you go, it will be, playing in the background while you shop, all over your social media and on the TV. The temperature at my house tonight is getting down to around freezing. The foliage is all but gone and the grass is going dormant. These are all signs that ski season, AKA the greatest time of year, is upon us.

This ski season marks Season 2 of Never Quit Skiing. If you’re new here, this website is a place for me to share my daily adventures in the mountains. I don’t ski every day, but I do ski most of them. Despite a major injury last winter, I managed to rack up 83 days. The year prior I skied 136 days.

I live in northern New York and Whiteface Ski Area is my home mountain. On my days off and on the weekends, I like to venture over to Vermont, where I regularly ski at Jay Peak, Sugarbush and Smuggler’s Notch. From time to time, I’ll also ski elsewhere. Every ski day is documented on the same day, complete with plenty of pictures. I usually post in the evening.

Despite what the candle currently burning next to me says — “Smells like a slightly above average skier” — I’m just an average skier. An intermediate. I don’t pretend to be anything else. If I say I love skiing trees, it doesn’t mean that I’m amazing at it and blast through them like I’m Candide Thovex. It just means that I simply enjoy skiing trees. I say this to manage your expectations. You won’t catch me jumping off cliffs or sending it through the terrain park, but you will find me on the steeps and in the glades.

Over the next few weeks, I will be positing here periodically up until the day ski season starts and then I’ll be posting daily. The content over the next few weeks will be about my ski season plans, getting ready for the season, etc. Talk to you in the next one.

Never Quit Skiing,

Lincoln