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WATERTOWN — The Dry Hill Ski Area is enjoying a stretch of excellent conditions and the slopes are busy with skiers, snowboarders and tubers in this, its 60th year.
The facility has had its ups and downs with issues like the weather and ownership in the six decades since skiers first took to its slopes, but it has maintained a determination to survive and to remain a local treasure, if only because of it being a novelty — a ski center in the back yard, a brief leap, from a metropolitan area.
“I don’t think people realize that there aren’t too many communities that have skiing 15, 20, 30 minutes away,” said Dry Hill Ski Area owner Timothy L. McAtee. “And you can go there for three hours and spend $20. Most people’s skiing experience is, you wake up at 4 in the morning, you drive for two or three hours, you ski all day, and you’re tired and get back in the car and drive two or three hours. That’s what a lot of people put up w ....

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