DAY 5 — Who says history can’t be fun? Here in Park City, whether you visit in winter or summer, there’s a lot of history to be learned. Since we’re here on a girl’s getaway, we find it amusing that at the height of the mining boom in the 1900 census, there were 22 seamstresses in Park City but only two sewing machines. We’re also impressed that the woman who employed all of the seamstresses, provided health …
DAY 4 — There are second acts in life—and in ski country. Just ask Vicki Martell, a Harvard MBA with a successful career in banking behind her. She’s now an instructor at Park City Mountain Resort and has dedicated herself to getting moms—and women–back on the slopes. Welcome to Park City Mountain Resort’s new Ladies’ Club, offered certain days of the week. Women who hadn’t skied in a while, said Martell, “didn’t want a high powered clinic. …
DAY 7 — Fresh baked cookie anyone? It’s the beginning of the ski day and the chef is fielding a silver platter heaped with fresh baked chocolate chunk cookies. Yum! Beaver Creek’s motto is “not roughing it,” and the cookies are just the beginning. There are mountain welcome tours, the chance to send a post card anywhere in the world courtesy of the resort and après ski for families in the village on Saturday. Today, skiers and …
DAY 6 — I’m sitting under a warm waterfall. No, not in Hawaii or Costa Rica. In fact, there’s snow outside—lots of it at Beaver Creek Resort in Colorado. I’m at the Allegria Spa at the Park Hyatt Beaver Creek—right at the base of the mountain–in the first of the Aqua Sanitas, or healing waters, that I learn are modeled on ancient Roman baths and the origin of spa. So here I am before my treatment in …
DAY ONE — You’re never too old to take the kids. And they’re not too old for a trip with mom and dad. Sometimes, that can include a trip down memory lane—on snow. In fact, we’re chowing down on excellent BBQ at Sam’s Smokehouse atop Snowmass Mountain checking out the stupendous views on this blue sky day and time traveling back more than 35 years. Back in the day, my husband Andy Yemma, his brother Mark Yemma …
Let’s hear it for Michelle Obama. She really means it when she’s telling us all to Move –to get outdoors and to eat healthier. She and her daughters just spent the Presidents Weekend at Aspen on the slopes where we are this week, with four great mountains to ski or snowboard on. I believe Mrs. Obama only started skiing a year or so ago, presumably because her girls wanted to learn. Certainly she didn’t have to. She …
DAY 2 — Want to join the Ladies Club? Park City Mountain Resort has become a leader in the ski industry with programs that limit the number of children in ski classes (three for the five and under set, five for those six to 14). They initiated SnowMamas from a website dedicated to snow loving and trip planning moms to help make their forays to the snow less stressful and more fun, drawing on women from around …
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