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Lone Wolf

Vail Mountain, Colorado: 1962

Beaver Creek Resort, Colorado: 1980

Breckenridge Ski Resort, Colorado: 1997

Keystone Resort, Colorado: 1997

Heavenly Mountain Resort, California: 2002

Northstar California Resort, California: 2010

Kirkwood Mountain Resort, California: 2012

Afton Alps, Minnesota: 2012

Mt. Brighton, Michigan: 2012

Canyons Resort, Utah: 2013

Park City Mountain Resort, Utah: 2014

Perisher Ski Resort, Australia: 2015

Wilmot Mountain Ski Resort, Wisconsin: 2016

Whistler Blackcomb, British Columbia, Canada: 2016

Stowe Mountain Resort, Vermont: 2017

Big Bear Mountain, California: 2017

Blue Mountain, Ontario: 2017

Deer Valley, Utah: 2017

June Mountain, California: 2017

Mammoth Mountain, California: 2017

Snowshoe, West Virginia: 2017

Squaw Valley, California: 2017

Alpine Meadows, California: 2017

Steamboat, Colorado: 2017

Stratton, Vermont: 2017

Snow Summit, California: 2017

Tremblant, Quebec: 2017

Winter Park Resort, Colorado: 2017

Crystal Mountain Resort, Washington: 2018

Solitude Mountain Resort, Utah: 2018

Crested Butte Mountain Resort, Colorado: 2018

Mount Sunapee Resort, New Hampshire: 2018

Okemo Mountain Resort, Vermont: 2018

Stevens Pass, Washington: 2018

Falls Creek, Australia: 2019

Hotham Alpine Resort, Australia: 2019

Paoli Peaks, Indiana: 2019

Hidden Valley Ski Resort, Missouri: 2019

Snow Creek Ski Area, Missouri: 2019

Attitash Mountain Ski Area, New Hampshire: 2019

Crotched Mountain Resort, New Hampshire: 2019

Wildcat Mountain Ski Area, New Hampshire: 2019

Hunter Mountain, New York: 2019

Boston Mills Ski Resort, Ohio: 2019

Brandywine Ski Resort, Ohio: 2019

Mad River Mountain, Ohio: 2019

Alpine Valley Resort, Ohio: 2019

Jack Frost Ski Resort, Pennsylvania: 2019

Big Boulder Ski Resort, Pennsylvania: 2019

Roundtop Mountain Resort, Pennsylvania: 2019

Whitetail Resort, Pennsylvania: 2019

Liberty Mountain Resort, Pennsylvania: 2019

Mount Snow Resort, Vermont: 2019

9:24 pm:

Summit County, Colorado.

in Breckenridge, Colorado, fade away into the darkness as photographer Chip Kalback and I climb Hoosier Pass, heading south on Highway 9, away from the crowds of Summit County toward the much quieter,

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