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What A Difference A Day Makes

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Cross-Country Skiing In Appleton Farms, Ipswich, MA., January 10-11.
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SeniorsSkiing Guide: Saving Laurel Mountain From Obscurity

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Western PA Pioneer Area Comes Back To Full Operation. There has been a lot written about the lost ski areas.  For one reason or another, ski areas sometimes are unable to meet the financial or operational requirements and end up closing the lifts. …
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New England Ski Museum Tells 3,000 Years Of Ski History

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From The Stone Age To Today. The tiny museum in Franconia, New Hampshire is located next to Cannon Mountain's gondola base, and it's a wonderland. Even before you enter, you're intrigued by what you see just outside the door and you ask yourself: "What's…
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Here Comes Winter: From Mt. Washington, NH

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Home Of Big Time Extreme Weather Looks Over Dramatic Moving Clouds. Mt. Washington is the Northeast's highest summit.  At 6,288 feet above sea level, the mountain is a mecca for campers, hikers, and fast-changing weather conditions.  This video…
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Vermont Ski Hill Morphs Into Summer Water Park

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Grandkids Would Love A Summer Day At Smugglers. [Ski resorts are being creative about developing off-snow season attractions.  Smugglers Notch in Northern Vermont has gone the extra mile in creating three separate water parks.  There's still time to…
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Cannon Mountain Update: Seniors To Continue Free Skiing

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House Rebels Against Bill That Would Have Ended Free Senior Skiing. Senior resident skiers can breath a sigh of relief after NH legislators agreed to drop a plan that would have ended free skiing for seniors. House and Senate representatives had…
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Sunday River Lift Foundation Detaches From Ground

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Mysterious Accident Luckily Happened In Mid-Summer. The top terminal of a triple-chair lift at Sunday River, ME, has pulled out of the ground, collapsing the lift.  The foundation failure was discovered by a maintenance worker during a routine evening…
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Cycling Series: Small Ski Town Turns To Bikes In Non-Snow Season

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Western New York Ski Town Has Lots Of Cycling Opportunities. One of the more interesting things that happens to a ski town is the metamorphosis that occurs after mud season.  Mud season is traditionally when spring rolls along and the snow melts…
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Update: Free Senior Skiing at Reinstated In NH House Bill

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Now The State Senate Must Approve. A bill that would have eliminated free skiing for NH seniors has been amended to reinstate the senior benefit and is being sent back to the Senate for approval. The bill would have charged seniors different rates…
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This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (May 20)

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Spring Survey Responses A Wow, Fling Golf, La Nina Coming Soon, More Cycling Series. We are truly awed and grateful for the incredible, enthusiastic responses we’ve been getting to our Spring Subscriber Survey 2016. If you’re familiar at all…
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Final Ski Run In New England

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May Skiing In Maine? Who Knew? The hardcore showed up in the first weekend of May this year to take their last licks on the...ahem...snow.  As we all know, it has been a bad, bad season in the East, but the miracle snowmakers and groomers have managed…
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Free Senior Skiing Under Threat In NH

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State Legislature Considers Ending Decades Of Free Senior Skiing At Cannon Mountain. Since 1973, state-owned Cannon Mountain has been the only ski area in New Hampshire to offer free skiing to seniors 65-plus.  This year, a second attempt to end free…
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Backwoods Ski Club: Informal Senior Group, No Rules, Just Fun

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Good Times On Gore Mountain With Senior Skiers. I am riding the chair at Gore this week with my good friend Mike Smith.  He said to me, "McCloskey, I have found the meaning of life—speed, horsepower and altitude." Mike is an avid skydiver and…
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Jay Peak Making Lemonade From A Lemon Ski Season

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Vermont's Jay Peak's Video Shows How Creative Eastern Skiers Can Be When Making The Most Out Of Lemons. The clever skiers from the Northeast Kingdom discover a lemon tree right on the ski trail.  Can you count the number of ways they make lemonade?…
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Seniors Save Big in New England

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Fabulous Deals For Senior's Next Season Passes Are Happening Now. It’s never too early to think about next winter. Most ski areas have opened up season pass sales for next winter with some big savings for seniors if they plan ahead and purchase…
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Jack Frost Senior Day: A Model For Other Resorts

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A Get Together Of Senior Skiers Combines Fun, Learning and Friends. Our mission at SeniorsSkiing.com is to promote the value of senior snow sport enthusiasts to the ski and snow sports industry. This year, we've discovered that some ski resorts are,…
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SeniorsSkiing Guide: Waterville Valley Resort Is Super Senior-Friendly

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The Silver Streaks Make Senior Skiing Unique: What A Great Idea. When it comes to picking a spot to ski, seniors are after two things: Other seniors to ski with and a price that's less than a bundle. That is why my husband and I have come to enjoy…
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SeniorsSkiing Guide: Fixed Income Skiing on a Liberated Schedule at Sunday River, ME

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Big, Big Four-Season Resort In Maine Has Activity-Filled Social Scene For Seniors. For seniors on a fixed income and liberated schedule, a top place to ski in the East is Sunday River, ME. That is for three main reasons. First, it is huge. When you…
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