If you are planning a ski trip look no further than Winter Park
Resort in Colorado. Sure there all lot famous resorts here
in Colorado that are household names across the United
States, but these well-known resorts are plagued with
crowded ski slopes and lift lines. Which is why Winter Park
Resort is known as “Colorado’s Favorite”. Coloradoans
frequent this ski resort more than any other in the state, due
to the fact that it is one of the biggest resorts, with the most
snow and fewest tourists. It also helps that it is only 67
miles from Denver.

Winter Park Resort is also the home of the legendary Mary
Jane. Mary Jane was named as one of the top 5 resorts in
North America for bump skiing according to Snow Country
Magazine. It is not for the faint of heart, as there are no
green runs anywhere on the “Jane”.

Parsons Bowl takes you above the clouds and the tree
line. The bowl offers intermediate to advanced ski runs, and
happens to be a favorite of the locals. Once you get to the
top you will be looking for your camera, and a warming hut.

Ski Magazine ranks the terrain parks & pipes of Winter Park
Resort in the top 10 of the nation. The Railyard is one of the
longest terrain parks in Colorado, and covers 15 acres over
a 3,650 foot stretch of rail-grinding madness. For beginners
there is the Jack Kendrick, which has extra wide rails and
non-threatening jumps to help advance to the next level.

There are plenty of great restaurants and bars on the
mountain, and like the lift lines, the crowds never seem to
be a problem. You can also head to the actual town of
Winter Park after the lifts close. It is a quaint little strip of
restaurants, bars and shops. There is actually a very good
sushi bar in town that often surprises people with its great
food and reasonable prices.

Round off the day with a trip to the lighted tubing hill in
Fraser. They provide a lift, warming hut and the tubes. And
if you would like a day away from the slopes, you can enjoy a
snowmobile tour up to the top of the Continental Divide, or
get down right old fashioned and jump on a dog sled.

Ski-in Lodging:
Slope View Bed & Breakfast - Just a five minute walk from
Winter Park Resort
970-531-2386
http://www.slopeview.com/

I am the proud owner and operator of this great ski-in
establishment. http://www.slopeview.com/

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The Wisp Ski Resort, located in Western Maryland, is less than three hours by car from Washington D.C., Baltimore, Pittsburgh and Annapolis. For the Atlantic area, Wisp has a long ski season, (on average 140 days) which runs from before Thanksgiving into late March. The season is consistently long because of Wisp’s state of the art snow making capabilities. The resort has one of the world’s largest and most efficient snowmaking systems with computerized weather and pumping stations.

The resort has 32 trails and 132 acres of skiable terrain. The difficulty of these trails is spread nicely between three levels with 10 beginner slopes, 13 intermediate slopes and nine advanced. Novice skiers and boarders will love the Possum trail, which runs for 1.5 miles from the top to the bottom of the mountain. Night owls of any level will appreciate that 90% of the trails are open for night skiing. In the near future the resort will be opening 44 more acres of back-country terrain.

For the adventurous snow warrior, there is the Savage Half Pipe, Rail Park and the large Ford Built Tough Terrain Park.

Wisp offers a nine-lane tubing park with rope tows called Bear Claw Snow Tubing Park. This is the place where everyone can participate. Just get in your tube and you are off on a ride you won’t forget. The snow tube park has its own snowmaking and grooming machines to make sure the fun keeps on coming. Other fun family activities include sleigh rides and snow mobile trips through beautiful pine forests.

One exciting new addition to the resort is the Wisp Resort Nordic Center. The center offers 50 kilometers of trails of varying difficulty, so you can spend the whole day cross country skiing or snowshoeing. If you are new to these sports, the center also offers tours and lessons for both adults and children.

When you are ready to come inside, Wisp resort offers a full spa. At Sewickly Spa, you can get massages, facials and other relaxing treatments. If you stay at the resort, you also have free access to the health club, where you can swim, play racquetball or work out. Yoga and Pilates classes are also available for a fee.

While you are relaxing you can rest easy knowing your children are safe and happy at the Children’s Learning Center. At the center, experienced instructors will teach your children all they need to know to have fun skiing or boarding. Classes are broken up into three groups. Kids ages 3 to 7 learn basic skiing skills. The mini-riders class is for 6 to7 year olds who want to learn to snowboard and Club Wisp is geared towards 8 to 14 year olds who really want to take their skiing or snowboarding skills up a notch.

If you are staying the night, the Wisp Resort Hotel and Conference Center offers comfortable rooms, at the center of all the action. All rooms come with a refrigerator, coffee maker, ironing board and hair dryer. Inside the hotel there is a restaurant and two bars.

Gerard runs the website World Ski Resorts info which contains information on Resorts like CamelBack, Tamarack and Meribel ski resorts to name a few.

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There’s only so much time that a sane person can spend maintaining a boat in the depths of winter. Even the Sailing Fanatic has found that the delights of scraping, sanding and fixing toilets begin to pall after a while. He has taken a break to recover his enthusiasm.

Great, you might think. But wait! For when the Sailing Fanatic stops obsessing about boats, a strange transformation occurs: just as Clark Kent sheds his business suit to reveal Ta Ra! Superman, so the Sailing Fanatic clambers out of his oilies and sailing boots to reveal Ta Ra! the Skiing Fanatic, complete with orange goggles and a fetching bobble hat.

It is an awesome sight, believe me!

Likewise, I also undergo a transformation, changing instantly from Reluctant Sailor to equally Reluctant Skier. With a few dry-ski-slope lessons and one week’s proper skiing under my belt, I am still at the ‘Why do I want to risk life and limb to get cold, tired and hungry, throwing myself off a mountain’ stage.

Compare this with the Skiing Fanatic, who likes nothing better than to travel up to the steepest part of the steepest run, point his skis down the hill and go - followed by two tiny fellow fanatics, who zip happily behind in the blind belief that Daddy will never lead them into harm’s way.

The four of us hit the slopes mid-January, at a small child-friendly resort in the French Alps, known as Les Gets. It is geared up for skiers of all abilities, and a quick trip over the mountain leads you into the massive linked ski area that forms the Portes du Soleil.

The Skiing Fanatic was in his element. The kids were having a whale of a time. And I - had some more skiing lessons.

‘Forget red and black runs,’ I told Tim, my ski instructor. ‘I just want to be able to ski down a blue run without being terrified.’

And, a few hours later, much to my surprise, I could!

It started to snow halfway through the holiday: powder snow, lying thickly pristine on the pisted slopes until we swished our way, one after another, through it. We tackled a long sweeping run, lined with pine trees, swooping and spraying our way downhill, before stopping for hot chocolate at a caf

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