By Mary Ellen Shaw Winter is not the favorite season for most seniors! We don’t like to walk around wondering if there is black ice underfoot. Nor do we like driving on it. Hearing that a snow storm is coming […]
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First turns on North Ridge!
By Merisa Sherman Taking a deep breath, I open the car door and swing my feet out of the car. I grab the emergency handle and pull myself out. It’s been a few days of this and already I can […]
Winter is here!
By Merisa Sherman Never doubt The Beast, the biggest and best in the East “Wishing and waiting and thinking and praying, planning and dreaming …” I know that’s the start of the song made famous by Dusty Springfield in 1964, but […]
Snow on Superstar
Temperatures (finally) begin to cooperate with Killington — race hill turns white, resort says it’s ‘confident’ it can pull off the FIS World Cup ski race over Thanksgiving weekend Staff report “While some people may be excited about record high […]
Unseasonably warm
By Merisa Sherman It’s hot. I mean, not like Arizona hot but way too hot for November hot. Like, who are we kidding here with the crazy non-snowmaking weather? These consecutive and beautiful sunny warm days that don’t seem to […]
Remember the cold, snow and ice?
By Mary Ellen Shaw When I submitted my column to Polly recently I added a comment about how much I dislike hot weather. I told her I had much rather have it cold. I also gave her permission to remind […]
Heaps of snow! And all the fun that comes along with it
By Merisa Sherman I cannot stop looking out the window. The beauty of what is happening outside lures me in and captivates not only my mind but my entire soul. I cannot stop staring at the snow resting on the […]
186 days on snow and counting, plus my tuba epiphany
As of the submission of this article, I have skied 186 days this year at Killington, already more than my previous very respectable year where I skied nearly every operating day (and we haven’t even hit May yet). They did […]
Amazing
By Jim Haff I stopped by the Mountain Times on March 22 and asked them to go up to the hill and take a picture. It was an amazing sight! Any of you folks that are doubting Powdr and Killington […]
Beer and snow makes for a great day at Okemo
Saturday, April 1, 11 a.m.—LUDLOW—It’s no April Fools’ joke—Okemo Mountain Resort has scheduled an on-the-snow beer festival April 1. Based on the overwhelming success of its three-day summer beer festival called Hops in the Hills, Okemo introduced a one-day winter […]