Adam and I talk about hitting the ski slopes every year but, for some reason we never manage to get ourselves up to the Ridge. He has never skied or snowboarded and I haven't been on a pair of skis since I was 15. We've been considering learning how to snowboard together but getting started is a little intimidating.
We were aware that there was a little ski area on Badger Mountain but we didn't give it much consideration. We made the assumption that skiers had to hike their gear up the hill and we couldn't imagine that all that work would be worth a five-second downhill run.
Two summers ago, out of curiosity, we took a bike ride to the ski area to see just how small it really was and we were surprised to discover that it isn't just a bunny slope! There's actually a pretty good sized hill with rope-tows and even a little lodge! It looked like a great place for us to get started and we decided that we should definitely give it a try.
A year and a half later, we still haven't visited the Badger Mountain Ski Hill.
A few weeks ago, my dad called from Westport to tell me that he had heard about this great little ski area near Waterville. He had seen it on King 5's Evening Magazine and went on and on about how even he might consider skiing there. (He had a bad "human luge" incident at White Pass in the early '90s.)
As he described what he had just watched, I started feeling a little sheepish. Here we have a quaint, home-town, mini ski "resort," worthy of mention on the Seattle news, sitting practially in our back yard and we've never bothered to try it out! Unfortunately, the snow melted, prompting the closure of the ski area. It doesn't look like we're going to get anymore snow, so we'll probably have to chalk this up as another missed opportunity. Maybe next year!
You can watch the Evening Magazine feature on the King 5 website:
http://www.king5.com/on-tv/evening-magazine/Badger-Mountain-113078914.html
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