Ski Maine!

For those arriving from SkiMaine's enewsletter, welcome! If you'd like to read about our 2008-2009 Ski Maine Peak to Peak Adventures, you are in the right place. To read and see about our three-day, five mountain trip North (including our delightful discovery of chest deep powder in The County), you can do so here. To read about the successful completion of the challenge and our rundown of our favorite features of each mountain we skied, click here. And to read about our excitement of Kyle (my husband) winning the first ever Peak to Peak Challenge, head here.

Ski season in Maine officially begins this month -though Kyle got a few turns in at Sunday River on Oct. 17, the early opening of which ensures that Maine will have the longest ski season east of the Rockies! With flurries flying, Ski Maine has launched its winter website, and I am thrilled that the sexiest skier I know is prominently featured!

That would be Kyle (check him out above)- who has, for the record, since begun wearing a helmet.

Our friends at Ski Maine - a non-profit association representing the Maine ski industry that works to increase the availability and enjoyment of Maine skiing and snowboarding for children, families and individuals - were telling us that when their 2009-2010 promo book (to which I contributed several images) went out, no one could believe that the shot of Kyle was actually taken in Maine, as it has a very western look to it. Would you believe it was actually taken up near Presque Isle at Quoggy Jo, Maine's second smallest ski hill with only 215 vertical feet! (It's all a matter of perspective.) We visited that friendly Maine mountain last winter during our Peak to Peak push that had us skiing every.single.mountain.in.Maine, 17 in total, in a single season. You can read (and see) all about that adventure, which eventually lead to Kyle winning a Ski Maine VIP pass, here, here and here.

Kyle and I are honored to be ambassadors of Maine's ski scene, through our support of Ski Maine, WinterKids and the Ski Museum of Maine and have already begun plotting and planning how we'll again ski every slope in the state this winter, while still making it to the mountains every Wednesday night to race with the moon. Rumor has it that we'll even be leading an organized trip to The County to show off the terrain at the top of Maine...

We figure if you live in New England, you might as well embrace winter head, heart and hands on! If you agree, then we encourage you to check out Ski Maine's site or my aforelinked blog posts for a closer look at what Maine has to offer in the snowy months ahead.

Bring it!