SPORTS MEDICINE i RETAIL JUNKIE SUPERSTAR i READER ATHLETES i CALENDAR OF EVENTS VERMONT FREE! SPORTS MAGAZINE Vermont’s Authority on Outdoor Fitness and Adventure NOVEMBER 2010 VOLUME XX | NO. I GET IN SHAPE FOR SKIING SKI AREA IMPROVEMENTS TREADMILL TRAINING TRINA’S CLINIC SKATING IN OVALS ON ICE SKIS FOR THE BACKCOUNTRY, SIDECOUNTRY & GROOMERS Men’s PedShed T U R E ™ V E N A D O R F T I F Riversports Outfitters Blue Ridge Mountain Outfitters Mountain High Outfitters '&AcbVS`ZO\R/dS 9\]fdWZZSB<!%'' #""3Oab;OW\Ab 0ZcS@WRUS5/!#! 4W\ROab]`S\SO`g]c( &$## !$$ %$ #&! ! []c\bOW\VWUV]cb¿bbS`aQ][ 2 Vermont Sports November 2010 VERMONT SPORTS DEPARTMENTS Publisher Sky Barsch Gleiner 4 Publisher Commentary [email protected] CONTENTS Vermont Sports Managing Editor Kate Carter Changes Hands [email protected] Advertising Sales Get in Shape for Skiing 4 Out & About [email protected] 8-9 A Wildlife Bonanza Art Direction and Production Shawn Braley [email protected] Vermont Ski Area 5 Retail Junkie Superstar Colonel Jacob Davis To advertise call the main offi ce 11 Improvements Phone: 802-754-2997 (o/f) Would be Proud 802-279-0077 (m) or email [email protected] This month’s contributing writers 6 Sports Medicine Elizabeth Bassett; Kate Carter; Sky Barsch Gleiner; Skis for the Backcountry, Time for Treadmill Training Chris Keller; Ryan Leclerc; Paul McMorris; Brian Mohr; Billie Munro Audia; John Morton; Phyl Newbeck; Robert Rinaldi, DPM 12 Sidecountry & Groomers 7 18 & Under This month’s contributing photographers The Rest of the Story Kate Carter; Brian Mohr Editorial Offi ce Vermont Sports Magazine, LLC Trina’s Clinic 13 Muscles Not Motors 19 High St., Orleans, VT 05860 14-15 Gear Guide 802-754-2997 (o/f) 802-279-0077 (m) [email protected] Skating in Ovals on Ice 18-19 Reader Athletes We welcome unsolicited material but do not guarantee its safe return. 16 22 This Month on Production Offi ce Vermont Sports Publishing, LLC vtsports.com 19 High St., Orleans, VT 05860 802-754-2997 (o/f) 802-279-0077 (m) [email protected] 23-24 Calendar of Events Vermont Sports is owned and operated by Vermont Sports Publishing, LLC, 25 Vermont Sports A Vermont limited liability company. 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IDVKLRQIXQFWLRQWHFKJHDU\RJD KDQGVHOHFWHGWRZHDUZHOOILWZHOODQGODVW 60DLQ6W+DQRYHU1+ PRXQWDLQJRDWKDQRYHUFRP November 2010 Vermont Sports 3 PUBLISHER COMMENTARY BY SKY BARSCH GLEINER VERMONT SPORTS CHANGES HANDS Dear Readers, Could I apply that mindset to running a Advertising pays our editors, writers, snowboarding tomorrow – my sister’s I’d like to introduce myself as the new magazine? Absolutely! So here I am, on photographers, printing costs, distribu- picking my father and me up, leaving owner of Vermont Sports magazine. the course and putting one foot in front tion, website maintenance, and a whole her dog here, and we’re driving up at 6 As the longtime reader athlete edi- of the other. So far, so good. lot more, and allows this magazine to be a.m. Amen.” tor, I’ve had the honor of interviewing I want to thank everyone who has free to our readers. When you stop in the When you’re done reading this issue, cancer survivors, record setters, moms helped make this transition as smooth many businesses who advertise here, I hope you hit the trails, woods, slopes, and dads who juggle full-time jobs with as possible. I’ve had the overwhelming please let them know you appreciate roads, whatever you can, depending on parenting and marathon training, and support of my family, friends and col- their support of Vermont Sports. our unpredictable November weather, other inspirational athletes. I have been leagues, and without that, I probably Finally, I’d like to dedicate my fi rst and honor your passion for the outdoors. touched by the incredible determina- wouldn’t have taken this leap. I’d also issue to my dear friend Than Durgin. Get outside and breathe that crisp Ver- tion, dedication and enthusiasm of our like to thank Kate Carter, our editor, Than passed away this summer after a mont air, and don’t let a single moment go to waste. outdoors community. Shawn Braley, our designer, and our long, extremely tough fi ght with cancer. – Sky Barsch Gleiner When the opportunity arose to pur- many contributors and vendors, for their He was the epitome of a Vermont Sports chase the magazine, I had doubts as enormous amount of help and enthusi- reader – a snowboarder, mountain biker, to whether I could or should be doing asm. hiker, boater – passionate about life, Please join me, the Vermont Sports this. While mulling over the decision, I I’d also like to thank our advertis- passionate about being outside. Earlier staff, contributors, family and friends thought about athletes who compete in ers – past, present and future. With our this year when he took a turn for the from 6 to 8 p.m. on November 10 at 50-mile runs, century rides, or thru-hike economy still lagging, we especially ap- worse, he sent an e-mail explaining the the Reservoir Restaurant and Tap the Appalachian Trail. How do they do preciate their continued business. When bad prognosis. Instead of sitting at home Room in Waterbury for a Vermont it? They practice, set goals, stay edu- an advertiser buys an ad, they are not feeling sorry for himself (which would Sports relaunch party, with appetizers cated, train, and most importantly, they just buying print space; they are sup- have been completely understandable), and door prizes, and cash bar. Check don’t give up when challenges arise. porting this forum for our community. he said, “And what am I doing? I’m going our website for the latest details. OUT & ABOUT BY JOHN MORTON A WILDLIFE BONANZA ne of the constant pleasures of my Not long ago, however, my wife Kay had lived in Alaska for a decade years Later, adrift in a large bay sur- work designing trails is the thrill and I enjoyed a wildlife bonanza. Pete ago, I had never made it out to Kodiak, so rounded on three sides by rugged hills, Oof observing wildlife. Here in the Karns, a former biathlon teammate of Kay and I were both thrilled to accept the some still displaying remnants of last Northeast, the fl ash of a white tail deer mine from 40 years ago, and his wife Karns’ invitation. winter’s snow, while fi shing the bottom bounding off through the underbrush or Jeanine, invited Kay and me to join them Pete and Jeanine met us at the Ko- for halibut, we were surprised by a loud the heart-stopping thunder of a ruffed at their cabin on Raspberry Strait, which diak airport for the short drive to the “whoosh,” perhaps 50 meters from the grouse taking wing from almost under- carves a channel between Kodiak and municipal boat harbor. Although there boat. A couple of fi n back whales casu- foot is nearly a daily occurrence. Some- Afognak Islands, about 250 miles south- were a few pleasure boats tied to the ally arced through the surface, spouting what less frequent, and therefore more west of Anchorage, AK. Kodiak Island docks, most of the slips accommodated as they entered the bay from the Shelikof exciting, are encounters with hawks, owls, is noted as the site of the nation’s larg- commercial fi shing boats, even a couple of Strait. wild turkeys, and occasionally moose. Al- est Coast Guard station, the epicenter of the crabbers made famous in the televi- After a few days of fi shing, Pete an- though I have seen evidence of bear and some of the world’s best fi shing, and the sion series The Deadliest Catch. Pete and nounced it was time to look for bears. coyote, I intentionally make plenty of home of the impressive Kodiak bear. Ko- Jeanine’s boat was a 30-foot twin-hulled With the pink salmon run just ending noise in the woods when I’m working, so diak bears are a variety of grizzlies that, aluminum cabin cruiser designed for fi sh- and the silvers about to arrive, every I’ve rarely stumbled across those animals thanks to an abundant food supply, grow ing.