One Two Ski: Closing Day

Kicking Horse - Mark Bridgwater

After 42 days on snow and dozens of ski articles, I can't believe this is my last blog of the season! I renewed blogging after last summer break at the end of October and I have faithfully posted every week since then, cataloging my adventures around spectacular ski hills in North America. What an amazing season: fluctuations in snowpack and weird weather to make hearts sink but precipitation and powder days to make them (and you) float again!

I skied in nine Canadian resorts, five Utah resorts and two Colorado resorts and managed to get turns in every month of the season – despite living down south. Just goes to show, where there’s a will there’s a way.

Good news: I have two assignments already for early season with The Dallas Morning News, another with ABC parenting magazine in the South of England, and a new book contract with Goodfellow UK. This is a huge project focusing on Winter Sport Tourism through the eyes of the people who work in the ski industry – should be worth some entertaining anecdotes as well as informative perspectives, experiences, statistics and marketing tips.

Please let me know (on louise.hudson2011@gmail.com) if you, or someone you know, has a great job at any level within the ski industry or in a ski town, which should be highlighted in this book.

Along with all the articles I hope to get accepted in Canadian and US newspapers and magazines, this book will keep me busy ski researching and writing right up to Sept next year and will be published in Nov 2015 – just in time for you all to buy the book for all your ski mad, ski industry friends, colleagues and family!

Ski Resorts Open in May:

Pic du Midi, France

Alta, Utah open for weekends April 25-27 and May 2-4

Aspen, Colorado bonus weekends April 26/27 and May 2/3

Killington open into May (date to be decided)

Nakiska, AB, Canada open for Fri-Sun bonus weekends until May 4

Marmot Basin, AB, Canada until May 4

Loveland Ski Area, Colorado until May 4

Sugarbush, Vermont until May 4 (weather permitting)

Gstaad, Switzerland - glacier open until May 4

Spring Fest at Whistler Blackcomb

Lake Louise, AB, Canada until Mother’s Day, May 11

Jay Peak Resort, Vermont until May 11 (weather permitting)

Snowbird, Utah open daily until May 11 and then Fri-Sun through May 26 (conditions permitting)

Pic du Midi, France open until May 11

Sunshine, AB, Canada until May 19 (86^th annual Slush Cup)

Mt Bachelor, Oregon until May 25

Mammoth Mountain, California until May 26

Whistler Blackcomb, BC, Canada until May 26 plus glacier skiing on Blackcomb from June 21-July 27

Arapahoe Basin, Colorado until June 1

Winter Park, Colorado

Here's a re-cap of most of my 2013/14 season published articles (I say most as they keep appearing elsewhere on various syndicated - and, increasingly, unsyndicated - networks so it's difficult to keep up):

Nov 2013 Big White Article http://www.silvertraveladvisor.com/index.cfm?v=Louise_Hudson_StarWriter&fkArticleID=370&fuseaction=pubDsp.dspStarWriter

Nov 2013 Lake Louise, Fernie and Breckenridge Article

http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/travel/ski-snow/20131108-lake-louise-breckenridge-will-host-many-olympic-hopefuls.ece

Dec 2013 Revelstoke Article

http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/travel/ski-snow/20131206-in-deep-powder-at-canadas-revelstoke-mountain.ece

Dec 2013 Calgary Herald Ski Guide – What the Olympian Says

http://www.calgaryherald.com/sports/resort+guide+2013+runs+resorts+Banff+National+Park/9257126/story.html

Dec 2013 Ski Canada Magazine The British Invasion – Vol 42 Issue 3:

Nov 2013 and Dec 2013 Dan Egan Edging the Extreme Radio show:

Dec 2013 Calgary Herald Ski Property Article:

http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/hill+properties+open+those+willing+hunt/9312409/story.html

Dec 2013 Calgary Herald Passholders Article: