NICE TO SEE SOME MUCH-NEEDED SNOW in the forecast for today, just in time for the usually busy Martin Luther King Day Weekend.
Sounds good to this snow-loving journalist, who finally got out on the tracks and trails by taking a ski loop or two at Great Glen Trails Outdoor Center after speaking with my friends Eli Walker and “Nordic Nate” Harvey.
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