First Tracks photo contest

The best way to combat the low-snow blues is to feast your eyes upon beautiful images of skiing from around the world. Who had the most enviable first ski of 2012?

It’s that time of year again. After months of waiting for mother nature to validate your existence, she kindly obliges with a dusting here and there of early-season snow. The minute you judge the ground to be adequately covered, you drop everything and are out the door. Perhaps there was grass still poking through. There might not have been time to change out the baskets on your poles. Or maybe you were lucky enough to...