Courtesy of Tom Kelly
In today’s world, it’s a bit lonely riding chairlifts. One of my great joys as a local is sharing a 5-minute ride with strangers who share my own passion and have chosen to visit our town’s resorts. It’s an opportunity to meet fascinating people and to share some community pride. That will come back in time. So, for today, we are left with that chairlift time to conjure up memories on our own.
It was a stormy day last week as I rode silently up Carpenter Express at Deer Valley looking out along the ridgelines toward Jupiter Peak, watching a storm roll in. It was a typical mid-December day as the winter snowpack was starting to evolve.