This Week In SeniorsSkiing.com (Apr 1)

Skiing In Literature Series Launched, Fun Products, Snowshoeing At Ski Resorts, Plus A Report On Roads Scholars Trip to Telluride, CO.

This isn’t an April Fool joke. There is a forecast of snow for this weekend in the Boston area. Come on, Old Man Winter, make up your mind. Our friends in the West are celebrating even more powder as this photo from TV news of Breckenridge shows.

This week, we are publishing the first in a series of Skiing In Literature with an excerpt from Hemingway’s The Snows of Kilimanjaro. It’s our way of celebrating the 80^th anniversary of the story, first published in Esquire in 1936. We will have more Skiing In Literature articles coming up. If you have any sources of stories, poems, novels, please let us know.

Our recent Subscriber Survey has revealed what many senior skiers view snowshoeing as a second snow sport. Roger Lohr, publisher of XCSkiResorts.com, presents a number of Alpine ski areas that run snowshoeing programs, from strenuous to casual. Snowshoeing, by the way, is a great way to spend time on the snow with grandkids.

There’s a clever way to “hack” using hand warmers from our resident craftsperson, Sue Z, as reported by co-publisher Jon Weisberg. Jon also reports on the auctioning of Yellowstone National Park’s monster snow coaches. Imagine one of those in your driveway.

Correspondent Jan Brunvand describes his experience with Road Scholars in Telluride. Formerly known as Elder Hostel, Roads Scholars has many different adventure travel programs, skiing only one.  There are cross-country adventures, too.

Finally, we highlight a product we feel is a long time coming and greatly needed by senior skiers. It’s the DeBooter. a fast and easy way to take your ski boots off. DeBooter is also a SeniorsSkiing.com advertiser, and we believe the product is a perfect match for our readers.

Speaking of advertising, as we begin our third season of publishing SeniorsSkiing.com, we have grown to the point where advertisers who have products and services targeted to active seniors would definitely benefit by advertising with us. If you know of potential advertisers, please let us know.  Contact [email protected]