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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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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?

09/09/2026

Après doesn't always happen at the base lodge.

Sometimes it happens in your own backyard on a Saturday in October when the leaves are at peak color, college football is on in the background, and the Traeger has been running since 9am.

The Traeger Woodridge XL is the centerpiece of that version of après and it earns the spot completely.

This is not a grill. It's a system. Set it, walk away, come back to something that tastes like you spent all day working on it — because you kind of did, just not in the way that exhausts you. The wood-fired smoke does the work while you're playing co****le, arguing about the spread, and doing exactly what autumn Saturdays are supposed to look like.

The insider detail — the XL size matters more than people think. When you're hosting the kind of backyard situation where college football becomes a full afternoon and nobody wants to leave, you need the capacity to feed that crowd without running two rounds. One cook. Full spread. No apologies.

The earn-the-reward moment is year-round. Fall just happens to be when the backyard version hits its peak.

Traeger Grills — built for exactly this kind of Saturday.

What's your backyard setup for fall football season?

09/04/2026

It's happening.

First snow on the high peaks. Not a storm — a signal. The kind that shows up in a weather report and makes a very specific type of person stop what they're doing and check the resort opening dates.

Mountain towns are waking up. The lifts aren't spinning yet but the energy is already shifting. Bike shops are rotating stock. Ski shops are pulling inventory. The mountain town bar that spent September in quiet mode is about to remember what it's built for.

This is the moment between seasons that only the regulars actually feel. The skiers who never really stopped — who traded powder days for trail days and kept the fitness going all summer — they've been waiting for exactly this.

The work you put in between now and opening day is what shows up on that first run. The fitness, the focus, the season you actually want to have — that's being decided right now.

We cover this world because we live in it. The mountains in every season, the towns that make the culture worth documenting, the earn-the-reward moment that never gets old no matter how many times you've stood at the top of something and pointed it downhill.

Ski season is coming.

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09/02/2026

The mountain doesn't close when the lifts do.

It just changes the language.

Summer trails are still open. The aspens are about to do something unreasonable with color. The singletrack that spent all winter under snow is at peak condition right now — tacky dirt, clear sight lines, no crowds. And somewhere above treeline the first dusting is already showing up on the high peaks like a reminder of what's coming.

This is the window that the regulars know about and the tourists miss entirely.

Fall in a mountain town is quieter than winter. The energy shifts from chase-the-powder to earn-the-view. Longer days on trail. Cold air that hasn't turned brutal yet. The kind of afternoon where you finish a long ride or a ridge hike and the patio beer hits completely differently than it does in July.

The earn-the-reward moment doesn't hibernate. It just changes terrain.

Get out there before the lifts spin up and the crowds come back. The mountain in fall belongs to the people who know how to find it.

Patagonia Visit Jackson Hole Osprey Packs — this is your season too.

What's your favorite mountain town in the fall — before ski season takes over?

08/28/2026

Ski season is closer than it feels.

And Après All Day is heading into fall with something to say about what this brand is building toward.

We started as a simple idea. The mountain town lifestyle deserves to be covered the way the people who live it actually experience it. Not as a travel blog. Not as a gear catalog. As a culture worth documenting by someone who's actually in it.

That idea has grown into something real.

Destination features that mountain town locals recognize as accurate. Brewery spotlights that get reposted because they're written by someone who actually sat at the bar and ordered the right thing. Gear recommendations from someone who uses the gear and has opinions about it.

And this fall — brand partnerships coming into focus. More destinations. More brewery and distillery spotlights. More of the content that's been driving the growth and earning the right audience.

The ski season changes everything for this brand. The mountain goes from backdrop to centerpiece. The après moment goes from patio to base lodge. The culture we cover gets louder and more specific and more worth following.

We cover the mountains in every season because the people who love them don't stop when the calendar changes.

Summer built the foundation. Fall sharpens it. Winter is why we do all of it.

If you've been following along — thank you. You're part of what makes this worth building.

If you just found us — you're here at exactly the right time.

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08/26/2026

Vermont has no shortage of craft breweries worth stopping for. Long Trail is the one that earned its place at the top of that list before most of the others existed.

Founded in 1989 in an old mill on the banks of the Ottauquechee River in Bridgewater Corners, Long Trail was a trailblazer for craft beer in Vermont and the Northeast before craft beer was a category anyone was paying attention to.
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The beer you order is the Double Bag. No debate.

A double amber ale — smooth and complex, roasted malt with caramel and chocolate underneath, bittering hops keeping it honest at 7.2%. It drinks like Vermont in the fall. Rich without being heavy. The kind of beer that makes sense after a long day on the trail or a morning skiing groomers before the crowds arrived.
Longtrail

The insider detail — Double Bag was originally only available in the taproom. A secret brew for the people who actually showed up. It won Malt Advocate's Beer of the Year in 2001 and earned every bit of it.
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The campus on the Ottauquechee is the kind of place you plan to stop at for one beer and leave two hours later having had three conversations with people who just came off a trail or a mountain.

That's the whole point.

Long Trail Brewing — still the standard after 35 years.

What's the Vermont brewery that became part of your mountain routine?

08/21/2026

Last week of August. School starts Monday.
Twenty-four years in and this week still feels the same way it always has. Part excitement, part taking stock of everything the summer built and everything that still needs work.

For the athletes in this community — this is the moment. The summer work either shows up in how you feel heading into the first week of practice or it doesn't. There's no more adding to it now. There's just executing what you've built.

I talked to another coach this week about what separates the teams that execute well late in close games from the ones that fall apart under pressure.

His answer was simple. When the body is tired and the game is tight — go back to what you know best. Pick the one thing you do better than anything else on both ends of the floor and own it. Don't try to be everything. Be the best version of your best thing.

That's the end of August in one idea.
You've done the work. You know what your best thing is. Lead with that heading into the school year.

For the parents sending athletes back this week — remind them that the summer they just had matters. Even if they can't see it yet. Even if the first week of practice feels harder than expected. The work is in there. It shows up when it counts.

Have a great first week back to everyone in the Elite Basketball Training community. We'll be right here all season long.

08/21/2026

The mountain doesn't care what season it is. ↓
It doesn't care that school starts Monday. It doesn't care about rosters or schedules or the administrative weight of a new season landing all at once.

It just asks the same question it always asks.
What did you actually build this summer — and are you ready to execute it when it counts?
I told another coach this week that the secret to performing under pressure at the end of a tight game is simplicity. When the body is tired and the brain is tired with it — don't reach for something new. Go back to the one thing you do better than anything else and own it completely.

August is that moment at the end of a game.
You've done the work. The summer is built. There's nothing left to add.

Lead with your best thing.

The mountain teaches this same lesson on every technical run, every long climb, every moment where the conditions stop cooperating and you have to execute on what you actually have — not what you wish you'd prepared better.

The outdoor season doesn't end because the calendar says August is over.

It shifts into a different kind of earning.
The skin track in December starts right here.
What did this summer build in you that shows up on the mountain this winter?

08/19/2026

Park City in summer is what happens when a world-class ski resort stops performing and just exists.

The lifts aren't spinning. The mountain is wide open. And the trails that spend all winter buried under Utah powder are suddenly yours alone on a Tuesday morning in August.

Finish with Holy Roller at Deer Valley. Four miles of pure cruising — flowing singletrack that doesn't demand everything you have, just enough to earn what comes after. It's the kind of trail that puts you in the right headspace. Comfortable enough to enjoy the scenery, engaging enough that you're present for every turn.

After — find a chair on the deck at Glitretind inside Stein Eriksen Lodge.

This is the insider detail that separates the people who've actually been there from everyone else. The Stein Burger on that deck with a cold beer and the Wasatch Range sitting right in front of you is one of the great post-trail moments in any mountain town anywhere. Not because it's fancy — because it's perfectly earned. The elevation, the view, the burger, the beer. Everything in its right place.

Deer Valley doesn't oversell itself. It doesn't have to.

Deer Valley Resort Stein Eriksen Lodge Deer Valley — summer on this mountain is as good as it gets.

What's the mountain town that surprised you most when the snow was gone?

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