Meridian, Miss., begins the official last leg of my drive. Before I reach its “city” limits, I’ll stop at one of the gas stations right off I-20. Here is where I buy flat jerky to tear up and scatter for the stray cats guarding the front door. Here is where I fill up my tank,…
The couple couldn’t quite remember when the 61-year-old man started to get sick. Was it before he retired the previous spring? No — it was later, the man insisted. But both men agreed that they knew something was seriously wrong the day the recent retiree fell going up the stairs. He was carrying his new…
To reach the top of the Waldspritz sledding run above the village of Grindelwald in the Swiss Alps, I hiked 90 minutes into the backcountry, dragging a small runnered sled by a rope to roughly 7,400 feet. Above the tree line, the snow — a brilliant fondant whiting out granite ledges and filling meadows —…
Despite the La Niña weather pattern that dumped snowfall by the foot last winter at many mountain resorts in the western United States, global warming fundamentally threatens the survival of the ski business. In response, ski areas are increasingly investing in efficient snow-making and carbon emissions reductions. Some areas, especially in the West, are also…