Category Archives: Skiing

Michigan Ski Tour: Southwest Lower Michigan

Our Michigan Ski Tour heads down to check out the skiing and snowboarding opportunities available in Southwest Lower Michigan ...

Michigan Ski Tour: Northeast Lower Michigan

The next stop on our weeklong Michigan Ski Tour is Northeast Lower Michigan...
The Otsego Ski Club - Gaylord, MI
As a winter destination, the Otsego Ski Club provides families with the midwests only full service private ski facility with 27 runs, 5 chairlifts and outstanding terrain for all levels of skier and snowboarder.
Treetops Resort – Gaylord, [...]

Michigan Ski Tour: Northwest Lower Michigan

We're be featuring each region of Michigan every day this week with our Michigan Ski Tour. Today it's Northwest Lower Michigan which is home to some of Michigan's most well-known ski resorts. Read on for photos, information & links and if you have something to share, add a comment!

Michigan Ski Tour: Upper Peninsula

We'll be featuring each region of Michigan this week with our Michigan Ski Tour. The first is the first place the snow falls and the lifts open: Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Read on for ski area and ski resort information & links! As always, if you have something to add: a story to tell, a helpful [...]

Teddy Knape Film Festival

Forging Path by J.E.T.
The Michigan Ski & Snowboard Blog tipped us to the 2nd Annual Teddy Knape Film Festival will be held Saturday, December 29, 2007 at Crystal Mountain Resort. The event honors the memory of Grand Rapids filmmaker Teddy Knape who shot many of his first films at Crystal Mountain. In addition to [...]

Michigan 4th graders ski for free!

The Michigan Snowsports Industries Association (MSIA) and Dasani Water have established a state-wide "Cold is Cool" Fourth Grade Ski & Ride Passport that provides every fourth grader in Michigan the opportunity to ski for free up to 3 times at any of 19 downhill and cross country ski areas with a paying adult. Read on [...]

Blogs We Dig: Michigan Ski & Snowboard Blog

The Michigan Ski & Snowboard Blog is taglined The Latest Word From The Slopes, and they deliver that and then some. It features articles and updates from resorts all over the state about everything from free skiing days to ski film festivals to ski reports to webcams and photos. One of the coolest things [...]

Michigan Word of the Week: Skiing

Alpine Vally Ski Resort by 老六
Michigan is home to some of the best cross-country & downhill skiing and snowboarding in the Midwest. All month on Absolute Michigan, we'll be featuring all aspects of Michigan skiing with profiles of regions, resorts and trails along with a mountain of photos, video and information about the history and [...]

The Weather Outside Is Frightful … unless you're a skier!

...but this photo is quite delightful! The siskokid took this photo on November 22nd but I swear it could have been taken today outside my office! He says that this why they call the western end of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan "Big Snow Country".
Coming in December 2007 Absolute Michigan will be helping you get [...]

Blogs We Dig: RandomSPACE by Lars Jensen

RandomSPACE features the musings and photography of Lars Jensen. Lars explains:
Well, I'm not sure what to say about this place. As the title suggests it is mostly random stuff, although in recent times it has mostly focused on photography from my travels. I try to only put stuff on this page that is interesting [...]