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Whiteface Mid-station Burns, Mountain Opens Anyway

December 2, 2019Jay Flemma

LAKE PLACID, NY – Whiteface Mountain mid-station lodge and restaurant burned to the ground Saturday night, lighting the north country sky with an eerie red glow that was seen for miles. The structure was burned to its frame, flames soaring like the last reel of a Frankenstein movie, with nothing remaining but a smoking hole in the ground and twisted metal...

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Winter of Our Content: The 2018-19 Ski Season Review

April 2, 2019Jay Flemma

LAKE PLACID, NY – It’s a perfect night in the Adirondacks. The scent of burning fragrant hardwoods in the wood stove wafts to us as we sit on wooden chairs on the back porch, biting our nostrils. The snow is still lightly falling as it has each of the three days I’ve visited my beloved North Country this year. There’s tall timber all around...