I’ve found there are two main ways to be in the know when it comes to snow. One way involves checking multiple websites (depending on the resorts you care about) as necessary. If you’re like me, you check compulsively when you know it’s snowing in the mountains. Colorado snow reports: ColoradoSki.com snow report (Only show…

This newbie skiier grew up on The Great Plains. On the wide open and harsher plains, snow loses its novelty soon after early childhood and quickly becomes synonymous with wind and cold and general unpleasantness. Who knew when I hit the slopes for the first time last season that I would come to rejoice at…