I learned to ski on a fake-snow-covered landfill in southern Michigan, and although I’ve conquered blue groomers—and even, ahem, a few black diamonds—across Colorado since then, I wouldn’t call myself an expert. Luckily, two of my colleagues who are the real deal collaborated on our cover story, “Best. Winter. Ever.” Starting on page 44, it’s a guide to all the fun that’s to be had at Colorado’s 24 ski resorts (plus eight smaller municipal hills).
Digital director Maren Horjus, who conceived of and wrote most of the feature, grew up shredding slightly more challenging terrain than I did: Lake Tahoe, the birthplace of freeskiing in North America. “It’s showboat central,” Horjus says. “Granite ramparts, feastor-famine snow, moxie.” She is the self-declared best skier on the mountain, but she’ll always hang…
