When I heard Lone Mountain Ranch (LMR) had hired Denise Wade as their new Nordic ski director, I figured it was a perfect opportunity for me to get to know her and take a lesson. For three years now I’ve curiously been watching cross-country skiers skiing their butts off around town, but to be perfectly honest, I’m more comfortable flying down the mountain on a snowboard than slowly gliding down a small hill on skinny skis. So it was high time for a lesson in Nordic skiing.
Butterflies were waging all out war in my stomach as I pulled into the Ranch for my first-ever Nordic ski lesson on Tuesday. “Will I fall?â€Â   … More