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Making Corduroy- The Life of a Ski Groomer
When you roll off your last ski run and into a hot-tub soak, when the chairlifts come to their quiet halts, when sunset leaves behind a black night: magic happens. Come every evening at each of Utah’s fourteen ski resorts, tiny armies of men and a few women climb into massive, machinated beasts of mountain […]
A Fire Still Lit Within: Celebrating the Ten-Year Anniversary of the 2002 Winter Olympics
My skis point toward Champion, a moguled black diamond ski run at Park City’s Deer Valley. A thousand feet below, the colorful, ant-size children of ski school move helter skelter atop winter’s white blanket in front of the Snow Park Lodge. At the run’s edge, a sign marks the spot: the 2002 Winter Olympics […]
