Even ski area owners get the jitters.
“I literally woke up this morning saying, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s a week away. Will I be nervous on Saturday?’” Cranmore Mount Resort owner Brian Fairbank told me last Saturday during a Zoom interview on Outside TV’s White Mountains Today.
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