BARTLETT — There’s a time-honored adage that old skiers don’t age; they just go downhill.
At the age of 88, Bill Nixon’s still going at it, racing down through the Nastar (NAtional STAndard Race) gates on the ski slopes at Bretton Woods Mountain Resort.
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