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  • Ski industry supports cloud seeding but downplays climate change

    Ski industry supports cloud seeding but downplays climate change

    Getting skiers on the slopes is less about actual snow and more about getting skiers to believe there is snow.

    by Jonathan Thompson, Mar 04, 2013

  • Winter Prayer

    Snowshoeing alone at night in the forest, a woman thinks – and prays – about the friends she loves, and the families they worry about.

    by Kathleen Dean Moore, Feb 05, 2007

  • The romance of deceleration

    The noisy contrast between snowmobiles and cross-country skis awakens the author to the similar contrast between the life she has always wanted and the one she currently has with her partner, Billy.

    by Deanna Wittmer Clauson, Mar 19, 2007

  • The day they close the pass

    As mountain towns get more accessible and lively, even in midwinter, the author relishes the way his tiny, remote town slows to a stop once the mountain pass highway is closed for the season

    by Steve Voynick, Nov 14, 2005

  • On the trail of global warming

    This winter’s weird weather has everybody talking, but nobody wants to tackle the big question: Is global warming finally hitting the West?

    by Greg Hanscom, Apr 18, 2005

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