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I first moved to a small mountain town in the California Sierra twenty years ago. I had wanted to work at a ski resort. So I packed up all my belongings while living in the suburbs of Washington, DC and moved to Mammoth Lakes, California. One of the most challenging…
Continue reading“In a shocking move, Thursday, Nederland Town Hall announced plans to incorporate into the City of Boulder.” So led the front page article of Nederland’s local weekly newspaper, the Mountain-Ear . Just the thought of such a preposterous idea led me to shudder. What??? For some local residents who didn’t…
Continue readingEven in the mountains… No place is exempt from potential terrorism or violence. We like to think that our small mountain town is immune to crime, that we all get along. And for the most part that is true. Reading the police reports in the local Mountain-Ear newspaper, the reports…
Continue readingAs a ski instructor this past winter, I frequently got asked why I didn’t work for our local ski resort here in Nederland, Eldora Mountain Resort instead of my home resort off I-70. The short answer was I just preferred the size and variety of the larger resorts, but the…
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