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Yesterday, I had the joy of downhill skiing for the first time this season at Mary Jane, part of Winter Park Ski Resort. As you might have read in my earlier post, I was bitten by the ski bug as a teenager in college, and became passionate and addicted to…
Continue readingBryon and I watched with amusement this past week, as snow was forecast for the mid-Atlantic and New England states — basically the corridor extending from Washington, DC in the south up to Boston in the north. Soon, there were Facebook posts of panic and horror over the snowstorm that would…
Continue readingAs I was reading Denver’s 5280 magazine, I discovered an article about Nederland’s local ski area, Eldora Mountain Resort, and its proposed expansion plan. The writer’s opinion depicted Eldora as more of a local’s place with some beautiful trails, and mused that expanding may take away the local flavor. Of…
Continue readingBeing raised in the suburbs of St. Louis, Missouri and then living in the Washington, DC during my twenties, I really wasn’t familiar with small-town living. It wasn’t until I first moved to the mountain town of Mammoth Lakes, California that I experienced rural, small-town life first-hand. A place where…
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