Skiing

The Joy of Snow Part 2
They say that if you can ski Hunter Mountain, you can ski anywhere in the world. It’s a form of reverse psychology: the winter climate out east, especially in the...
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April 18, 2006

The Joy of Snow
Last November, my mother flew over to stay with us for Thanksgiving week. On the eve of the big holiday, that Wednesday afternoon at the tail end of November of...
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April 17, 2006

Adventures in Solitude
It’s the holiday I’ve wanted for the last four years. To take Campbell on a father-son ski/ snowboarding trip. I’m clearly not the only one: We sit behind another dad...
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April 12, 2006

My Idea Of Heaven
…Reclining in shorts and t-shirt 6 inches away from 6 feet of snow, on a Sunday evening, at the foot of a 10,000 foot high ski mountain, with the burning...
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April 9, 2006

Room With A View (and a half)
This was the site that greeted us when we finally reached our room at the Solitude Inn this afternoon after 12 hours traveling: 19 inches of fresh snow in the...
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April 7, 2006