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Ski Safety Rules: Teach Your Kids Early and Often

February 3, 2020February 3, 2020

A friend and I skied together on Friday and spent a lot of time talking about safety on the mountain. We both have kids and have experienced our fair share of near misses as our kids have come through the ranks of skiing over the last decade. We don’t want to scare our kids out of skiing or squash their fun, but they need to learn early on (and all the time thereafter) the rules. I reminded my kids each and every time we are out there (“we know mama”). Adults need a refresher, too.

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Reflections on Skiing: Shared Experiences and Why They Matter

January 28, 2020January 28, 2020

I realized a few weeks ago that I have been skiing on or around my Birthday since I turned 18! My 18th birthday skiing adventure was certainly a right of passage of sorts and I guess I am feeling some nostalgia as I enter into my 40th Birthday Week.

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How to Get Your Skiing Kids and All their Gear from the Car to the Chairlift

January 24, 2020January 24, 2020

They say it’s all about the journey. But, in skiing with kids, it’s all about making it to the chairlift to start the day with your sanity, kids and gear fully intact. Am I right? I mean, I fully believe they are learning something along the way…rising up in the face of adversity from the “longest walk eveerrr and this stuff is soooo heavy and I’m hooooottt” but seriously, it’s no way to start the day! Stick with me and I will share with you our favorite set up across ages for getting to the chairlift.

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How to Raise Skiers and Why It’s Important For Your Family

January 14, 2020January 16, 2020

Our Snow Happy kiddos are now 6 and 9 (well, 6 1/2, to be precise, according to my daughter). They have been on skis since they could walk, tromping around the living room and yard in little plastic skis and then moving on to ski boots and skis around two. Now, when we see the little ones out there, stumbling around in cumbersome boots or riding along in a backpack, cheeks flushed we feel all the feels. There is so much nostalgia there for us in those early days. They were hard, but filled with joy and oh so worth it.

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Snow Happy Just Skied Beaver Creek Resort and it’s Great Place for Families!

December 31, 2019January 6, 2020

A couple weeks before Christmas, our Snow Happy family was lucky enough to take a mid-week getaway to Beaver Creek Resort. Not only did we get to experience the beautiful resort and amazing skiing, but Mother Nature dumped the goods on us for two straight days!! Needless to say (because what place don’t we love skiing) we had a fabulous time in both the town of Avon and at the resort.

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Resort Review: Live from Colorado’s Winter Park Resort!

November 22, 2019November 22, 2019

If I look back on where it all started for us…this crazy love of skiing and winter, this is where. Let me tell you about a couple of Midwestern kids that went to college in Colorado and hardly ever skied. When they moved to DC to build their lives together, they voyaged west for annual friend ski trips. A decade later, they returned to Colorado for good, bought a Rocky Mountain Super Pass, took Bob’s Bump Camp at Winter Park/Mary Jane and the rest is history!

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Ride the Amtrak Ski Train to Winter Park this Season!!

November 4, 2019November 23, 2019

Are you starting to plan or starting to think about planning your ski adventures yet? Well, Snow Happy is! If I’m being honest, planning the next season for us starts on the chair lift the season prior…kind of like planning your next meal while sitting in a restaurant enjoying an amazing meal. I may be known to do this.

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Where will you ski this season? 2019-2020 Season Passes

October 9, 2019January 16, 2020

Well, it’s 80 and sunny today. The leaves are in their glory and we are all waiting for the other shoe to drop tomorrow in the shape of 2″ of snowflakes. In the ski world, the race is on to opening day. Are you ready?

Here is a breakdown of the multi-resort 2019-2020 Ski Season Passes available and the looming deadlines of price increases. There are some great options available across the US even if you are looking for a few days here and there or are just taking a single ski vacation.

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Snow Happy Skied Taos and You Should, too!

April 9, 2019January 16, 2020

New Mexico newbie, here, and boy it really lives up to its name “The Land of Enchantment.” My husband says it is the vastness of the desert and sky. For me it is the light. The sky shows off morning and night with expansive bluebird in between. Whatever “it” is, enchanting really captures it.

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You Have our Hearts, Crested Butte

March 15, 2019January 16, 2020

If you told me I didn’t have to get on I-70 to ski amazing terrain and enjoy an idyllic ski town in Colorado, I would have said no way. Enter Crested Butte. This small town is nestled at the end of a beautiful valley surrounded by spectacular peaks, each one more amazing the next, the crowning jewel being Mount Crested Butte itself. And let me tell you, this place has something for everyone.