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All About Après covers adventure travel, gear that earns its place in your bag, and the après scene that makes the trip worth it.

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10/08/2026

45 days until the Bluebird Express starts spinning again. That's the six person bubble lift that runs you straight to the 3,600 foot summit at Mount Snow and right now it's just sitting there waiting.

West Dover is in the quiet stretch between leaf peepers and lift lines. Nights are getting cold enough that you start checking the forecast for snowmaking temps.

Projected opening is November 21. Snowmaking usually decides whether it comes sooner.

Who already has their first day circled?

10/05/2026

Park City's best nightcap is below street level on Main Street, in a bar named after the social aid and pleasure clubs of New Orleans. The owners of Alpine Distilling
met and married in Louisiana, and they brought that hospitality to the mountains.
Here's how I'd run the day. Ski Deer Valley Resort
still skiers only. Après Stein Eriksen Lodge Deer Valley
while the light goes gold on the mountain. Then walk down to the Social Aid & Pleasure Club and order something made with gin distilled right in town. Rolling with a crew? Book the session where you build your own bottle.
Which stop are you hitting first?

10/02/2026

Somewhere in the Dolomites, there's a guy at the top of the lift pouring grappa.
This is why European ski days hit different.
What's the best thing you've ever been handed on a mountain?

10/01/2026

First snow means one thing at my house: the gear bin comes out of the closet.

First thing I grab every year is my Akova Legacy Hardshell and pants.

Comfortable and warm they get me through all sorts of rough weather conditions.
Snow's falling at elevation. Time to find out what survived last season.

What's the first piece of gear you check when the snow starts?

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09/28/2026

It's snowing up high again.
Not enough to ski. Just enough to ruin your focus at work.
Where's your first turn of the season going to be?

09/25/2026

October is here. And the mountain is getting serious.

The first real snowfall on the high peaks. The resorts publishing opening day targets. The air in a mountain town in October that has no equivalent anywhere else — cold enough to mean business, clear enough to see everything.

All About Après exists for this moment.

We've spent the summer covering the mountain in every season. Destination features. Brewery and distillery spotlights. Gear recommendations from someone who actually uses the gear. The trails and patios and backyard setups that prove après is a year-round philosophy not a ski-season perk.

October is when it all converges.

The mountains we've been hiking and biking are about to get covered. The breweries and distilleries we've been spotlighting are about to get busy with the crowd that understands why they're worth stopping for. The gear that got us through summer is about to make room for the layers and boots and equipment that make winter in a mountain town the best version of outdoor living there is.

Here's what's coming this fall.

More destination features built on real knowledge from someone who's actually been there. More brewery and distillery spotlights that go deeper than any travel guide because they come from a regular not a reviewer. Brand partnerships with the companies that build gear and spirits and culture worth talking about. And ski season coverage that treats the mountain the way it deserves — not as a backdrop but as the whole point.

The earn-the-reward moment is about to get its best terrain of the year.

October is when All About Après remembers exactly what it's for.

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09/24/2026

Park City has no shortage of places to drink after a day on the mountain.

Alpine Distilling is the one that actually belongs there.

Founded in 2016 by Rob and Sara Sergent — Park City locals who built something that reflects the mountain community they live in rather than the tourist economy they could have chased. Sara is the most decorated botanical distiller in the country. Her Park City Gin won Gin of the Year in London. Best in Show in Las Vegas. Four times named Top Gin Distillery by USA Today. Rob's Utah Straight Bourbon took Platinum at the TAG Global Spirit Awards.

These are not participation trophies. This is a serious operation running out of a ski town off Main Street.

The bar is called the Social Aid and Pleasure Club — 364 Main Street, right in the heart of Park City. The kind of name that tells you everything about the philosophy before you walk in. The Park City Negroni is the order. Built around Sara's gin, it drinks like the mountain town version of a classic — clean, botanical, exactly earned.

The insider detail — Alpine crafts custom spirits for Stein Eriksen Lodge and St. Regis Deer Valley. The gin you're drinking at the base lodge après experience at two of the best resorts in Utah came from the same two people who built this place from the ground up.

That's not a detail most visitors ever find out.

Alpine Distilling— the real Park City après stop.

What's the mountain town distillery that changed how you think about spirits?

09/18/2026

The leaves are turning. The lessons don't. ↓

September is the month where everything I am shows up at once.

The teacher three weeks into year 24 with the same first-week energy that never fully goes away.

The coach back on the court where the athletes who showed up daily all summer reveal themselves in the first week of practice. You can see it immediately. The ones who put in the quiet work — 15 minutes or an hour, whether anyone was watching or not — carry themselves differently.

The trainer in the gym where September is always the most honest month. The work from June and July is either in the bank or it isn't.

And the person checking mountain reports on a Friday morning who felt something shift this week when the first high-elevation snowfall showed up in the forecast.

The mountain doesn't reward inconsistency. Neither does the court. Neither does the classroom.

The weekend is earned. Not because the week was perfect. Because it was consistent.

That's the whole lesson. From the barbell, the court, the classroom, and the mountain.

Show up daily. Whatever version of daily you have available.

What does your version of showing up daily look like right now?

09/16/2026

The Poconos don't get enough credit.

An hour and a half from New York. Two hours from Philadelphia. Right off Route 80 and sitting in the middle of some of the best fall terrain in the Northeast — and most people drive right through without stopping.

Don't do that.

The mountains around Tannersville are legitimately beautiful in September and October. The foliage hits hard here. The trails are quiet. Camelback is gearing up for ski season and the energy in the whole area shifts in that particular way that only happens when a mountain town is waking up after summer.

After the trails — Barley Creek Brewing Company on Sullivan Trail.

The Pocono Mountains' original brewpub since 1995. Brick oven pizza, smoked specialties, three full bars, and a biergarten that makes it genuinely difficult to leave before you planned to. The Antler Brown Ale is the order for fall. Rich, smooth, and exactly what the season calls for after a day outside in the mountains.

The insider detail — Barley Creek sits at the fork between Sullivan Trail and Camelback Road. If you're skiing Camelback, Jack Frost, or anything else in that area, this is your post-mountain stop. Has been for years. The locals know it. Now you do too.

The Barleycreek Brewing Company
Camelback Mountain Resort — the Poconos are doing fall right.

What's your go-to stop after a day on the mountain in the Northeast?

09/11/2026

The season is turning. The lessons don't. ↓

Fall is the month where every discipline I've ever trained in or coached confirms the same truth at the same time.

CrossFit shows it under a barbell. The athletes who approach a heavy set already defeated perform exactly as predicted. The ones who go in with a clear head and committed mindset regularly surprise themselves.

Basketball showed it this week in a conversation with another parent about female athletes versus male athletes under pressure.

Girls need to feel good to play good. Guys need to play good to feel good.

That's not a generalization — it's a pattern with real implications for how you coach. You can't tell a female athlete who's struggling with confidence to compete her way into feeling better. You build the confidence first. You find the win inside the session. The performance follows.

Golf confirmed the same thing from another angle entirely. The mental game between shots is almost always the differentiator. The physical skill is table stakes.

Three disciplines. Same truth every single time.

Performance follows mindset. Always in that order.

The mountain teaches this too. The skiers who drop in already negotiating with themselves about the line don't ski the line. The ones who commit at the top and trust what they've built — those are the runs worth talking about at the bottom.

Fall is when all of it comes together.

How do you adjust your approach based on what someone needs to feel before they can perform?

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