Ski resort

my boots and headed to the ski lift as I looked at the snow glow in the cold February sun. As I waited in the line, John was grabbing ice balls the size of my hand, while attempting to throw them at my back. As Jack left his station, the smell of weed stenched across the entire ski area. Not even caring about looking at my lift ticket,I easily got on the lift. I tried to pick up a snow ball as the lift came up and pushed me on its cold, rusty seats. Getting off the ski lift, I never thought…

socks. Could I have been more prepared? In my head I couldn’t have, but hitting the slopes would tell me something completely different. My best friend at the time and I made our way into our bulky ski gear. We talked each other up and we felt confident. The next thing on our agenda was to ride the ski lift right up to the most challenging slope, black diamond. Once we arrived at the top, I took a deep breath in, and a long cry out. This slope haunted me just by looking down. That wasn’t going…

Lake Placid hosted the first Olympic Winter Games in 1924. Since then, the venue has been a popular sports venue. Till date, Lake Placid has hosted two Olympic Winter Games, Speed Skating, Ski Jumping and Bobsledding World tournaments. Spend some time at the museum and explore the America’s first Olympic hometown. The site has Lake Placid Hall of Fame, where you can see the achievements and contributions of individual and group athletes.…

draining for me and as a result I got a job at the Grand America Hotel and Resorts. The Grand America Hotel, an AAA Diamond Award-winning, Forbes Star property, is part of the Holding family portfolio of hotels and resorts. In addition to The Grand America, the Holding family properties include Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho (twice selected by readers of Ski magazine as the nation’s top ski facility); Snowbasin Ski Resort, located just outside Salt Lake City (site of the 2002 Olympic…

like other ski towns, normally the off season turns into ghost season, we stayed populated all year round. If you were to ask my parents which place held the best memories, I think it’s safe to say we would agree on Switzerland. The views were rigid and mysterious. Some of the most breathtaking moments have been standing at the peak of Zermatt resort, embracing 360 degrees of pure beauty. Switzerland was also the first family trip we all took together that didn’t result in a trip to ski patrol…

skiing in case I just NEED to capture a photo of the gorgeous view. The whole adventure of skiing is fun because sometimes you can become lost. Although it’s alarming if you don’t know where you are, there are maps of the mountain everywhere to help you ski to where you need to…

Joan Mitchell’s Chamonix 1962 painting appears to be a mess at first glance; paint violently pushed across canvas, no focal point and seemingly just no point to this piece. However, by giving a name to this abstract mess, we are able to begin to use our imagination to begin to see shapes take form to see that Mitchell has made an abstraction of a French mountain and it is our job as a viewer to use our minds to make a story of her canvas. Mitchell’s 200 by 217.2cm canvas overtakes your vision…

The snow crunched beneath my feet as I walked onto the chairlift the wind howled and I shivered as the snow went down my back, the lift shuddered to life and started climbing up the face of the mountain, near the top I started strapping the Burton snowboard to my feet I turned to the right of me and saw two Swedish skiers who must have been on vacation it was odd because Sweden has a lot of snow so I asked them if they spoke English and they either couldn't hear me or didn't understand me and…

got even colder than the outside temperature made me. Soon after that we made a morning stop to get breakfast the place we could count on mcdonald's. After we finished eating we headed to rent out skis the line had about five groups of people in it which went by surprisingly fast. Once we got our skis and snow gear on we went outside. Surprisingly the weather was refreshing and not cold from the warm stuffy lodge we had previously been…

my body hitting the ground during my first time snow skiing. Splash! That is the sound of my body hitting the water over and over again as I am trying to learn how to water ski for the first time. I have recently had the privilege to be able to experience both water skiing and snow skiing. I was able to learn how to water ski for the first time this last summer; I went snow skiing for the first time this winter. Even though they have similar names, they are each unique and different from each…