FRYEBURG, Maine — It’s a “snowcoming” week for locally grown North Face professional freeskiing star Caite Zeliff.
The 29-year-old North Conway native is back in the Mount Washington Valley this weekend from her home in Girdwood, Alaska, to serve as featured speaker at the eighth annual Mt. Washington Backcountry Ski Festival’s High George Jamboree tonight, which is being at the Leura Hill Eastman Performing Arts Center at Fryeburg Academy.
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