Saturday Morning's Maine Event

Notes from a cross-border excursion.

Americans, be warned: because Trump built his wall on the wrong border,¹ I am in your country for a few days.

I’m in Maine to take in some of the popular ski resorts: Sunday River yesterday, and Sugarloaf today. It looked like yesterday’s ski trip would literally be washed away - coming after some agonizing customer service calls with my cell phone company to figure out why roaming data wouldn’t work, and my hotel’s hot water heater breaking down, the heavy rain made me wonder if I should just cut my losses and go home early - I persevered and found Sunday River operating as usual.

And what an experience it was. No disrespect to the humble hills in Nova Scotia, but I soon realized I wasn’t at Ski Wentworth anymore:

I can see my house from here.

Sunday River set a high bar, and today we’ll see if Sugarloaf can clear it. As I write this, conditions look…