PARALLEL UNIVERSE

Susan's column on the ski life was published in Skiing Magazine for three winters. Here are a few monthly installments.

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Skiing is Good

Skiing Magazine
December 2001

 
Lost In Space

Skiing Magazine
February 2001
 

How's Your Winter?

Skiing Magazine
December 2000
 

Ticket to Ride

Skiing Magazine
September 2000

 

Thursday Nights at Garf's

Skiing Magazine
December 1999
 
 
America's first true ski towns were born just after the worst moments of the Great Depression. In 1934 it was Woodstock, Vermont, and Pittsfield, Massachusetts -- not Whistler and Vail -- that delivered. By day Alpine skiers enjoyed the dual luxuries of an uphill ride and a lodge (or a hut) …
 
The trouble started with Klaus. He was a ski instructor who had been imported from Austria for the winter to give Great Gorge, New Jersey, some cachet. He was lonely. One day he took me down Kamikaze, the steepest, iciest, bumpiest run at Great Gorge. He held onto me and we skied it together. …
 
Gary Klein is one of the founding fathers of mountain biking. "Riding," he once declared, "is about rhythm and flow. It's the wind in your face and the challenge of hammering up a long hill. It's the reward at the top and the thrill of a high-speed descent. Biking lets you come alive in both …

 
Omaha, Nebraska is not exactly the center of the Alpine ski universe. The nearest piste, NebraSki, lies some 15 miles away and hasn't received enough snowfall to open for skiing since 1995. But in a hot and dusty Omaha railroad work yard in the summer of 1936, the world's first chairlift was born…
 

11 o'clock on a dark, snowy night. The lineup at Garfinkel's Nightclub in Whistler extends out the front door. Inside the club's dark depths, against a backdrop of moose heads and vintage cola signs, "Brown-Eyed Girl" blares. The crush of people is dense. One girl stands on a bench, doing a …
 
         

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