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Posted in 2007-2008 Ski Reports, Ski on Feb 29th, 2008
Day one of our Utah vacation turned out great with an early morning flight from Boston getting us into Salt Lake City and then up Little Cottonwood Canyon to Snowbird with time for a full afternoon of skiing. My first impression of Snowbird was how impressive it was both in its size, it’s steep slopes, [...]
Posted in 2007-2008 Ski Reports, Ski on Feb 26th, 2008
Luck finally ran out and the rain came down on the mountains last Monday, followed by the inevitable flash freeze. It didn’t put a damper on the excitement around Thursday’s broadcast of the Today Show from Sugarbush, and as I watched the program while on the bike at the gym, I couldn’t help but notice [...]
Posted in 2007-2008 Ski Reports, Ski on Feb 20th, 2008
.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Danielle in Slidebrook, originally uploaded by jimschley. The three-day President’s weekend is always challenging as the crowds come out of the woodwork to ski. It’s always the busiest week of the [...]
Posted in 2007-2008 Ski Reports, Ski on Feb 12th, 2008
The forecast was wrong and things ended up working out dramatically better than expected. Reports last week of 3″ Tuesday, 5″ Wednesday, 17″ Thursday, and 3″ Friday made me smile about the prospects for the weekend. I jumped straight into the woods first thing on Saturday morning, and I was rewarded by deep soft turns [...]
Posted in 2007-2008 Ski Reports, Ski on Feb 4th, 2008
Road conditions kept us from making the weekly trip up to Vermont until Saturday morning. The 8AM chair just wasn’t important enough this weekend to endure a long, stressful drive on icy roads Friday night. We still made it onto the mountain around 11:30 AM Saturday, and we were pleasantly surprised by the results of [...]
It seems like I only write about two things on this blog: skiing and mexican food. I do realize that severely limits my potential reading audience, but I’m not concerned. With the Superbowl on Sunday and a busy weekend coming up, I decided that I wanted to prepare my essential gametime guacamole ahead of time [...]
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