Your Mountain Your Valley Exploring Sugarbush and the Mad River Valley Fractional Ownership Available
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The Best Married Cat-Skiing on the Backcountry in the East Mountain for the Kids MAGAZINE SUGARBUS2009–2010H Your Mountain Your Valley Exploring Sugarbush and the Mad River Valley Fractional ownership available SUGARBUSH d MAGAZINE 2009 1 2010 Fractional ownership available SUGARBUSH d MAGAZINE 2009 1 2010 SUGARBUSH MAGAZINE PUBLISHER Jessica Kaiser EDITORIAL Editorial Director Ryan Brandt Managing Editor Catherine Shane Research & Copy Editor Joni Lacroix FEATURES Editorial & Production Coordinator Gretchen Heilshorn Editorial Intern 23 Louise Lloyd Owen ART & PRODUCTION 16 Breaking Trail Art Director The revolutionary Mountaineering Aimee Syverson Blazers program instills kids with much more than just backcountry skills. Associate Ad Designer BY SARAH TUFF Emily Woodworth 23 Traffic Manager Family Ties & Photo Editor Celebrating their families and their Jessica Sifferlen connection to the mountain was the focal point of Maggie and Christian’s SALES Sugarbush wedding. BY CORI RUSSELL Partner Relations Dyke Shaw Sales Director 16 6 Elizabeth Gallagher For advertising information, please contact D EPARTM ENTS 650 Islington Street Portsmouth, NH 03801 S 603.610.0533 4 INSIDE LINES 10 ARTS & CULTURE hawthornpublications.com Creative samplings from the Art in the Big Red Barn event. ILY) SANDY MACY SANDY ILY) 6 MOUNTAIN LIVING M © Hawthorn Publications 2009 After living in mountain towns across the country, Mary “Bear” 12 MOUNTAIN TIME All rights reserved. Simmons and her family settled in the Mad River Valley. (FA RAPHY; The mountain’s new cabin cat gets you some incredible fresh tracks. G HOTO P ON THE COVER: 8 SUMMERTIME 28 SUGARBUSH CLOSE-UP The quirky architects of Prickly Mountain build their awe- Resort and mountain details to help shape your visit. Mary “Bear” Simmons 12 inspiring Fourth of July floats with a healthy dose of spontaneity. hits a line of bumps on Ripcord. 10 Photo by Sandy Macys. (SCULPTURE) GLENN MOODY (SCULPTURE) GLENN MOODY SUGARBUSH MAGAZINE PUBLISHER Jessica Kaiser EDITORIAL Editorial Director Ryan Brandt Managing Editor Catherine Shane Research & Copy Editor Joni Lacroix FEATURES Editorial & Production Coordinator Gretchen Heilshorn Editorial Intern 23 Louise Lloyd Owen ART & PRODUCTION 16 Breaking Trail Art Director The revolutionary Mountaineering Aimee Syverson Blazers program instills kids with much more than just backcountry skills. Associate Ad Designer BY SARAH TUFF Emily Woodworth 23 Traffic Manager Family Ties & Photo Editor Celebrating their families and their Jessica Sifferlen connection to the mountain was the focal point of Maggie and Christian’s SALES Sugarbush wedding. BY CORI RUSSELL Partner Relations Dyke Shaw Sales Director 16 6 Elizabeth Gallagher For advertising information, please contact D EPARTM ENTS 650 Islington Street Portsmouth, NH 03801 S 603.610.0533 4 INSIDE LINES 10 ARTS & CULTURE hawthornpublications.com Creative samplings from the Art in the Big Red Barn event. ILY) SANDY MACY SANDY ILY) 6 MOUNTAIN LIVING M © Hawthorn Publications 2009 After living in mountain towns across the country, Mary “Bear” 12 MOUNTAIN TIME All rights reserved. Simmons and her family settled in the Mad River Valley. (FA RAPHY; The mountain’s new cabin cat gets you some incredible fresh tracks. G HOTO P ON THE COVER: 8 SUMMERTIME 28 SUGARBUSH CLOSE-UP The quirky architects of Prickly Mountain build their awe- Resort and mountain details to help shape your visit. Mary “Bear” Simmons 12 inspiring Fourth of July floats with a healthy dose of spontaneity. hits a line of bumps on Ripcord. 10 Photo by Sandy Macys. (SCULPTURE) GLENN MOODY (SCULPTURE) GLENN MOODY INSIDE LINES hen I was at Amherst College in 1969, a group of us used to travel to the Mad River Valley for ski weekends. Even though I was just a beginner then, I loved every moment Won the slopes; however, after graduation, I gave up skiing while I made my way into the “real world.” It wasn’t until my four children were ready to take up the sport 15 years later that I returned to the valley. (After all, skiing is one of the few lifetime sports that multiple generations can enjoy together.) As we drove into the historic village of Warren, I was immediately reminded of why we were attracted to this unique valley: It’s as if time stands still here. The Warren Store looked the same, and many of the people sitting around the potbelly stove were the same – just with a few more gray hairs. The mountain, too, was as I remembered it: vast and with great terrain for all abilities. A lot has changed in the half century since Sugarbush first opened, and, at the same time, a lot has stayed the same. The mountain and valley still offer boundless opportunities for fun and adven- ture no matter the time of year, and the people are as welcoming as There are ever. There are still no traffic lights still no traffic in town and the closest fast-food lights in restaurant is more than 20 miles town and away. But what has changed in the the closest last few years is that the overall fast-food Sugarbush experience is improving, restaurant is while still maintaining its legacy. more than 20 New, faster lifts and enhanced miles away. snowmaking capabilities have been added. In 2006, we opened Clay Brook – our new, refined, Vermont-style hotel and residences – as well as Timbers Restaurant and a new Gate House lodge. And for this season, our ski- able terrain has been expanded to include seven new wooded areas. But most importantly, we continue to build a capable, hardworking, positive team of professionals who are dedicated to delivering the best possible service to you, our guests. Maybe that’s why in 2009 the National Ski Areas Association honored Sugarbush with its top prize for guest service. Over the years, I have come to realize that life truly is better here in the Mad River Valley. And it is our goal at the mountain to become better each year, too. I look forward to sharing our special home with you. Cheers, Win Smith President, Sugarbush Resort URRAN C S ENNI D 4 OUNTAIN) 5 SUGARBUSH MAGAZINE M 2009 2010 ( INSIDE LINES hen I was at Amherst College in 1969, a group of us used to travel to the Mad River Valley for ski weekends. Even though I was just a beginner then, I loved every moment Won the slopes; however, after graduation, I gave up skiing while I made my way into the “real world.” It wasn’t until my four children were ready to take up the sport 15 years later that I returned to the valley. (After all, skiing is one of the few lifetime sports that multiple generations can enjoy together.) As we drove into the historic village of Warren, I was immediately reminded of why we were attracted to this unique valley: It’s as if time stands still here. The Warren Store looked the same, and many of the people sitting around the potbelly stove were the same – just with a few more gray hairs. The mountain, too, was as I remembered it: vast and with great terrain for all abilities. A lot has changed in the half century since Sugarbush first opened, and, at the same time, a lot has stayed the same. The mountain and valley still offer boundless opportunities for fun and adven- ture no matter the time of year, and the people are as welcoming as There are ever. There are still no traffic lights still no traffic in town and the closest fast-food lights in restaurant is more than 20 miles town and away. But what has changed in the the closest last few years is that the overall fast-food Sugarbush experience is improving, restaurant is while still maintaining its legacy. more than 20 New, faster lifts and enhanced miles away. snowmaking capabilities have been added. In 2006, we opened Clay Brook – our new, refined, Vermont-style hotel and residences – as well as Timbers Restaurant and a new Gate House lodge. And for this season, our ski- able terrain has been expanded to include seven new wooded areas. But most importantly, we continue to build a capable, hardworking, positive team of professionals who are dedicated to delivering the best possible service to you, our guests. Maybe that’s why in 2009 the National Ski Areas Association honored Sugarbush with its top prize for guest service. Over the years, I have come to realize that life truly is better here in the Mad River Valley. And it is our goal at the mountain to become better each year, too. I look forward to sharing our special home with you. Cheers, Win Smith President, Sugarbush Resort URRAN C S ENNI D 4 OUNTAIN) 5 SUGARBUSH MAGAZINE M 2009 2010 ( MOUNTAIN LIVING ne F OT O IN THE The Simmons family says they were attracted to how the valley’s four different Door towns each have their own unique vibe. Before permanently settling down in the Mad River Valley, the Simmons family tried to get a good sense of the community that came with the mountain. BY SCOTT McLENNAN fter graduating from UVM, it took Mary Simmons (known to usually plenty of homes available for rental deals. most as “Bear”) 13 years to finally make her way back to her During that time, the family also felt out the people in the valley. A native state. “[Our family was] always packing the car and Bear notes how adults with kids “have an automatic in” because going to Vermont,” says Bear, who lived in Jackson Hole, Wyoming; the schools are “a great way to get involved with the community Seattle, Washington; and Portland, Maine, before settling in the town and meet people.” Yet, those without kids are by no means isolated, of Waitsfield in Vermont’s Mad River Valley five years ago with her thanks to Sugarbush ski clubs and agricultural and environmental husband, Drew, and two children.