Snow Mountain Ranch is a special place. A 5,000 acre ranch, high in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, it lies between the town of Granby and Winter Park Ski Resort. Owned and operated by the YMCA of the Rockies, it’s the kind of place where families come together, everyone feels welcome and everyone can find something […]
Recommended Family Cross Country Ski and Snowshoe Destinations
A guest post by Roger Lohr of XCSkiResorts.com While the kids are still young enough to accompany their parents on a trip, head up to the hills during the winter school breaks. Cross-country (XC) skiing and snowshoeing are easy enough to enable the family to have a memorable adventure together and the nation’s top XC ski resort […]
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Biathlon: The Yin and Yang of Winter Sports
At first, I thought I might shoot my foot off. Three friends and I had signed up for a clinic to learn biathlon at Tamarack Lodge in Mammoth, California. Each March, Mammoth is the site of the largest biathlon competition in the United States. It’s a race where novices and Olympians rub shoulders, before they are divided […]
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Eldora Mountain Resort, CO: 50 Years of Alpine and Nordic Fun
On New Year’s Eve day, our family celebrated in a sparkly sort of way. We’re not sparkly people: no glam ski wear, no iridescent goggles, no bling or bangles, so it wasn’t what we wore, but where we were. We were at Eldora Mountain Resort west of Boulder, the sun was shining through fast-moving clouds […]
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Why Cross-Country Ski? (Book Review & Giveaway, too)
Picture this: Clean white snow spread out before your eyes as far as you can see. A bright blue sky, unmarred by even the smallest of clouds, the sun shining brightly and your breath expressed as clouds of smoke, while you and your family stop to laugh and catch your breath. It’s cold, but you’re […]
