Vermont’s Skiers’ Highway

Vermont’s Skiers’ Highway

You can’t get any more New England than taking a trip down Vermont Route 100. For nearly 220 miles, from Quebec to Connecticut, Route 100, a.k.a. Vermont’s “Main Street”, is a two-lane jaunt through quaint towns and villages, passing such...
Five Reasons We Love Sun Valley

Five Reasons We Love Sun Valley

Ever since railroad tycoon Averell Harriman decided to plunk down a resort near one of his railheads in Ketchum, Idaho, in 1936, Sun Valley has been practically synonymous with Americans’ picture of a glamorous winter sports mecca. For more than 80 years, the...
Top 10 Chairlifts to Get Stuck On

Top 10 Chairlifts to Get Stuck On

Remember Phil Connors, the Bill Murray character who was fated to repeat the same day over and over again in the movie “Groundhog Day”? What if we were all Phil Connors, but instead of continually reliving the same 24-hour period we had to ride the same...
Adventures at Central Idaho Resorts

Adventures at Central Idaho Resorts

When most people think about skiing in Idaho, their thoughts usually settle on one big, upscale resort in the central part of the state. But Idaho skiing is much more than Sun Valley, and there are three resorts within a two-hour drive of Boise — Bogus Basin,...
Sierra Resorts Simply Buried in Snow

Sierra Resorts Simply Buried in Snow

Call it what you want — Snowpocalypse, Stormaggedon, Snowzilla, Janubury, whatever — the Sierra, sitting right in the crosshairs of a series of atmospheric rivers, has seen a month like no other in recorded history. Through the first 23 days of January,...