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Author

Moira McCarthy

Moira McCarthy has been writing about skiing and mountain life since the mid-1980s, for Snow Country Magazine, SKI, Ski Area Management, and the Boston Herald, among others. Winner of the Harold S. Hirsch Award for Excellence in Snowsports Journalism, as well as the Mitch Kaplan Award for dedication to the sport, she grew up as a competitive freestyle skier but always to become a ski writer. She’s skied more than 275 ski resorts around the world and says she loves a day on a tiny New England slope as much as a powder dump in Japan. She’s the mother of two skiers and grandmother of three … so far.