Growing up in Iowa, I didn’t have many opportunities to try downhill skiing or snowboarding. (Though I did slide around on small Midwest hills on our yearly high school ski trips, where I saw my ...

Last month my 14 year old daughter Leah and I took a snowboarding lesson at Okemo Mountain Resort in central Vermont. Tom Buchanan was our instructor. Last month while at Jackson Gore/ Okemo I took a ...

Chuckles the groundhog called it: We have several more weeks of winter to go. Might as well embrace the news and hit the slopes. No experience? No problem. Herb Wollowick, supervisor of the Snowhawks ...

DULUTH — Winter fun is well underway at Chester Park as people of all ages headed to the hill for free ski and snowboarding ...

For Jeff Lifgren, a ski or snowboard lesson starts long before someone sets boots to snow and ends long after the day is done. “The entire day can really make or break the experience,” said Lifgren, ...