NorthWoods Staff Lead Sterling College Backcountry Course

2016-02-25T10:20:12-05:00February 25th, 2016|Education, Highlights, News|

Sterling College's Winter Intensive provides students with the opportunity to dig deep into a subject, and only that subject, for two straight weeks. For students in my course, while the snowpack was on the thin side, we certainly dug in to backcountry skiing in Vermont. We found snow in likely places when we left the lowlands, and reached the summits of Mt. Mansfield, Bald Mtn, and the ridge of the Bolton Trapps Traverse under the power of our muscles and skins attached to our skis.  We enjoyed snow made soft by rain, [Read More...]