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The Skier’s Lunch

Alpine Meadows, California

Dave Powell and Marianne McCarroll met in the locker room at Tahoe’s Alpine Meadows ski area. She was a foodie who became a personal chef; he was a painting contractor and a telemark skier.

They got married on the beach in Santa Cruz in 2001, skied 80 days a winter, and on those days, between noon and 1,

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