Rose Marie Cleese first made ski journalism tracks in the 70s as an assistant editor at SKIING magazine in Manhattan and then back on the West Coast as the magazine's western regional editor. A two-term president of the Northern California/Nevada Ski Media Association, the "starter dough" of today's NASJA (the North American Snowsports Journalists Association), she was the San Francisco Examiner sports department's first female writer, filing a weekly winter sports column, and covering the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. In recent years, her articles have appeared in metropolitan newspapers, monthly magazines, and national wintersports and travel websites. After taming some high-performance skis on boiler-plate a couple of seasons ago at Sun Valley, she knows she's nowhere near hanging up her skis or ceasing to write about this most sublime of sports! She lives in San Francisco, CA
