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’ve been a skier since I was eleven. The rst time I attempted skiing, my middle school friends took me up a chairlift on a tiny mountain in Pennsylvania and we all hit the trail. I wasn't afraid; I just did it, maybe because the slope wasn’t particularly steep or probably because I had a crush on a boy in my group and wanted to look cool. I’ve loved the feeling of gliding down runs ever since. I’ve skied mountains in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York State, Vermont, New Hampshire, California, and Park City, Utah. And even though every outing was thrilling, nothing tops skiing out West
A Family of Skiers On one family trip to Vermont, my husband and I enrolled our three-year-old twins in ski school instead of the babysitting room. We had similar stories about when we rst learned to ski, and neither of us ever took a lesson. We didn’t want our girls to inherit our lousy form. Since we both gured the sport out on our own, we wanted a safer experience for them. In their early twenties, they are better skiers and love skiing as much as we do. Thankfully, they also enjoy hitting the slopes with their parents, even if we don’t look as elegant when we carve our way down
A Mountain Like No Other When the opportunity to ski Powder Mountain in Eden, Utah, came up, I jumped at the chance to ski out West with my family again. I love my New York and Vermont haunts, but skiing in Utah is totally different. Each winter, the Wasatch Range receives a ton of snow– over 400 inches of “The Greatest Snow on Earth,” better known as pristine powder. And the mountain is high (8,900 feet), so
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the runs are longer, allowing more time to enjoy the gorgeous alpine scenery as you swoosh down the slopes Powder Mountain Is a Sustainable Resort Powder Mountain is the largest resort in the United States, covering 8,464 acres (including u n g ro o m e d trails), and i t ' s sustainable. It's privately owned, with the intention to preserve the skier experience. Management established crowd controls to ensure that everyone gets the best skiing of their lives. Pow Mow limits daily lift tickets to 1,500 skiers with season tickets capped at 3,000 per year. They say it's roughly three acres of snow per skier with that much terrain. They also like to brag that Pow Mow skiers have been social distancing since the 1970s when the mountain rst opened
