Fall brings a certain anxiety for skiers.

We start putting on our new outerwear to watch TV in the living room.

We creep resort webcams and compulsively refresh the weather.com 10 day forecast.

Everyone has their own preseason rituals.

This season, we were kept waiting a little longer than usual.

Mother nature at last felt a shred of pity for our time and again crapped on region.

The midwest has always been forgotten.

It’s always East and West, or rather West and East.

Somewhere in the middle, between them, with no actual mountains to speak of, is the midwest.