There is minimal snowpack on his daily training ground at Maranacook Community School, though, and driving rain is expected to further sabotage the high school skiing season later this weekend. DeAngelis probably wouldn’t have missed the Hornet Classic if he had been suffering from a raging fever and wearing a full body cast. Skiing three […]
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On skiing: The “favorite” ski area question, answered
The one question I’m asked repeatedly and cannot answer is, “What’s your favorite ski area?” If I choose an area, and the answer winds up in print or elsewhere widely known, I will have folks at one ski area happy and at least a half dozen unhappy. And that only includes Maine. What about New […]
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H.S. Skiing: Edward Little skiers top alpine season opener
Bell slithered down the giant slalom course in a time of 34.41 his first time down the hill. He wasn’t as fast his second time down, and Spruce Mountain’s Lucas Alley came close in his second run with a time of 34.48, but Bell’s combined time of 1:09.03 topped the field. “He skied really solid,” […]
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Festival Plaza rink key feature of Auburn Winter Festival 2016
AUBURN — The city will convert Festival Plaza into a big open-air ice rink for the annual Winter Festival celebration at the end of the month. Jasmine McLoughlin, Auburn’s recreation specialist, said the downtown rink will be one of two key venues for the annual festival, scheduled for Jan. 29-31. “It will cover the whole […]
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World Pro Ski Tour making a comeback
Last weekend, I mentioned Ed Rogers as part of my column remembering some snowless Christmases of the past. Fortunately, as I began work on this week’s offering, the snowless part had passed. One of the topics Ed and I had talked about has become official. For several years, Ed talked about reviving the World Pro […]
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Good news for Saddleback as well as skiers
By taking advantage of every opportunity to make snow, ski areas have been slowly adding terrain, and in spite of unseasonably warm temperatures, there is skiing for this vacation week. It may seem like not much is open, but if we could go back to the trail maps pre-snowmaking, we would find that there are […]
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Weather may delay Spruce Mountain opening
JAY — Despite unusually warm weather so far this year, officials at Spruce Mountain Ski Area were hoping colder temperatures last weekend would allow enough snow to be made for a Dec. 26 opening. It has been a tradition for the ski area to open the day after Christmas. Earlier this year, President Ron Jacques said […]
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Skiing: Waiting for the temperature to drop
Watching the weather forecast one day this week was discouraging. It was bad enough there was no snow in the forecast, but the forecaster seemed to be happy about it. Worse yet, the only temperature below freezing (28) on the entire map was on top of Mount Washington. Over the past decade or two, ski […]
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Saddleback’s uncertain future has Rangeley wondering about future
RANGELEY — Nicole Lund worked the lunch shift at The Blue Orchid alone on Wednesday, cooking egg rolls and Happy Noodles for five diners, an easy smile on her face. Lund, from Massachusetts, bought the former Thai Blossom this summer with her husband, Bob, when its longtime owners retired. She’s not nervous about whether the […]
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CVA’s weekend program features quality coaches
During the Ski Museum of Maine open house in Kingfield the past weekend, I learned that Joannie Dolan and Nikki Pilavakis-Davoren were now coaching juniors at Sugarloaf under CVA’s weekend program. Already knowing that Gail Blackburn was coaching in that program, I decided my first stop Saturday morning would be at the competition center to […]