Word: skiing
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...Best Weekend Retreat: Turin is an hour from the Sestriere ski resort, the site of the Alpine events for the 2006 Winter Olympics. Late snow is expected to keep lifts open well into spring...
...intimate conversation with a priest. Did I believe Father Spagnolia? The fact that he was extremely well thought of in Lowell carried weight with me. I grew up in Lowell's principal suburb, Chelmsford, mowing the local church lawn in summer for extra money, going on Catholic Youth Organization ski trips with Father Coughlin in winter. I knew of famous St. Patrick's, which rises like a beacon in the city's poorest section, a tenement-filled neighborhood called the Acre. On the cold but sunny Thursday when I visited Father Spagnolia, the front doors of St. Patrick's were...
Last weekend I was poised on the top of a mountain range, about to shoot down half a mile of icy slush on skis badly in need of sharpening, and a question occurred to me: does absence really make the heart grow fonder? My family took off a few days to do some much-needed bonding on the slopes of the Sunday River Ski Mountain in central Maine, and I made the painful decision to forsake life in Cambridge for a short while. As I skidded and slalomed down the trail on Saturday morning, I was surprised to watch...
...joys of skiing are simple yet profound. The satisfying “Shhkshhhhkshhh” sound the skis make becomes my entire world for ten brief minutes, momentarily eclipsing any deadlines, doubts or discouragements in my mind. There’s a very Zen pleasure in trying to drop the H-Bomb on two Canadian ski-bunnies at night and crashing and burning when they think I said “Hartford College.” My après-ski still seems to need some work. Enjoying tripping over my skis by the main chairlift and wiping...
...time it takes my roommate to prepare his bio flashcards, he could drive north to any number of posh New England ski resorts. Since the larger mountains in Vermont attract a huge number of people every weekend, I prefer to head up even farther to Sunday River or Sugarloaf in Maine—it’s worth the trek to escape the New York crowds. Two days of solid skiing is enough to tire out just about anyone short of the crew team, so “the weekend’s too short” is hardly...