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Yesterday I skied only my 2nd day of the season (since January at Gore), and it was pretty awesome. Amy and I braved the chilly 18 degrees at Stratton, which was my first time there, unless we had a Vassar Ski Team race there that I can’t recall. It was cold most of the morning […]

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Big congrats to my cousin Jamie, who won the XGames XII Women’s Slopestyle event yesterday in Aspen for the 2nd year in a row! There’s a story and great video of Jamie’s winning run on the official EXPN site. And there’s also a story about her win in the Aspen Times. There’s definitely some fierce […]

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Saturday marked my 5th ski day this season at the biggest mountain in the Northeast, Killington. It also marked my first full-day ski trip this season. I woke up bright ‘n early and hit the road by 7:30. I arrived just after 9 and was on the slopes by 9:30. I made the mistake, however, […]

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What a difference a face makes — when you can feel it, that is. Despite the sun peeking out from behind the clouds, yesterday was a bitterly cold day in Vermont, where I hit Pico for an afternoon on the slopes. The mountain had received two feet of fresh powder, so that part I loved. […]

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On our way to Gore yesterday for an afternoon of skiing, Nat and I were cruising along the Northway in his WRX. We were cruising in the middle of three lanes no faster than the flow of traffic at about 80 or 85 miles per hour, when suddenly, a blue minivan we had passed earlier […]

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After a few long days and nights Thursday through Saturday (hit the town two nights in a row, followed by a dinner party at Anne and Tom’s place), Jen and I decided to treat ourselves to sleeping in Sunday; we slept until 11:30am yesterday. I had decided by noon that I wanted to go skiing […]

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Yesterday marked the start of my 21st season of skiing (has it really been that long?!) when Nat and I, armed with our Price Chopper Family Mountain Passbooks, headed to Gore Mountain for an impromptu afternoon of awesome skiing. One of my goals this winter is to really make an effort to ski as much […]

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Although I miss skiing at my favorite resorts around Lake Tahoe and am really jealous of the not-in-the-last-100-years 19-foot snowfall record over the past couple weeks, it doesn’t suck living in the foothills of the Adirondacks and being at a good ski resort in less than an hour. Yesterday Jen came along with me for […]

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Last night I dreamt that Jen and I were hanging out in downtown Saratoga Springs, as we often do, but unlike most nights, the town wasn’t too packed. Many of the bars were actually closed, a rare thing. But one interesting thing about the dream was that many members of my old Vassar Ski Team […]

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I went skiing at Killington yesterday with Dan and Lauren, some friends from Vassar. Lauren and I were on the Vassar Ski Team together, so it was fun to have a bit of a ski team reunion (photo from February 1999). It was my second day skiing this season. The first was last month with […]

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