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Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort

Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort, located in Hancock and Lanesbourough, MA and abutting the state of New York, is the biggest ski area in the Berkshires and one of the largest in New England. With a vertical drop of 1,150 feets, 44 trails and nine ski lifts, it has a feel similar to nearby Vermont ski areas. Like other ski areas in the Berkshires and elsewhere, Jiminy Peak now boasts a range of outdoors adventure and sporting attractions all year round, including mountain coasters, miniature golf, hiking, and mountain biking. Visitors from away may be interested in Hancock, Mass hotels. (Image credit: Wikipedia User: Jrclark).

Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort contact information

  • 37 Corey Rd.,
  • Hancock, MA
  • Vertical drop: 1,150 feet;
  • trails: 44
  • Night skiing
  • 888-454-6469, 413-738-5500
  • jiminypeak.com

Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort driving directions and map

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Bousquet Ski Area

Bousquet Ski Area, located on the edge of Pittsfield bordering on Lenox and Richmond, is the oldest ski area in the Berkshires and is the place where night skiing was pioneered. There has been skiing at Bousquet’s since 1932, where there is a 750 foot vertical drop from lift-top elevation of 1,818 feet, with five lifts to service 24 trails. If you are interested in lodging near Bousquet, you may find this page helpful: Pittsfield, Mass hotels.

Bousquet Ski Area contact information

  • 101 Dan Fox Dr.,
  • Pittsfield, MA 01201
  • Vertical drop: 750 feet;
  • trails: 21
  • Night skiing and tubing.
  • 413-442-8316.
  • bousquets.com.

Bousquet Ski Area driving directions and map

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Catamount Ski Area

Catamount Ski Area, located near Gt. Barrington, MA is especially popular with New Yorkers because it is less than a three hour drive from NYC. There has been skiing at Catamount for over 70 years and now outdoors sports enthusiasts come year round to the aerial forest park and its ziplines as well as mountain bike trails. But is was downhill skiing that put Catamount on the map, with a 1,000 foot vertical drop and 32 trails, including the 2.5 mile Ridge Run, one of the longest ski trails in the Berkshires. If you are visiting the Berkshires to ski at Catamount, you can find accommodation at these Gt. Barrington, Mass hotels.

Catamount Ski Area contact information

  • 3200 Rte. 23,
  • Hillsdale, NY
  • Vertical drop: 1,000 feet;
  • trails: 32
  • Night skiing
  • 518-325-3200, 413-528-1262
  • catamountski.com

Catamount Ski Area driving directions and map

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Cross country skiing the Berkshires

Cross-country Skiing and Snowshoeing in the Berkshires

Canterbury Farm Ski Touring

Cranwell Resort, Spa and Golf Club

  • Rt. 7
  • Lenox, Mass
  • 413-637-1364
  • 10km groomed trails
  • cranwell.com

Hilltop Orchards – Cross Country Ski and Snowshoe

Notchview Reservation

  • Route 9
  • Windsor, Mass
  • 413-684-0148
  • 19 miles of ski trails
  • thetrustees.org

Pineridge Cross Country Ski

  • 1463 Plank Road
  • Petersburgh, NY 12138
  • 518-283-3652
  • 35km groomed trails
  • pineridgexc.com

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Rain delay prolongs Cubs World Series drought

Article updated Nov. 4, 2016 by

giving baseball another shot?

Since it was an off-night in my fandom, I tuned in to game 7 between Chicago and Cleveland, and grew more and more irritated as the game continued way past bedtime, until I tuned out and went to bed at midnight when they called a giant time out with the score tied at six. Except for the Impossible Dream year of the Red Sox when I was at college in Boston, I’m not a baseball fan, but I’ve tried to become one at various times for various reasons, such as when I was dating a girl who was a big fan and because many of my literary heroes are. Compounding the drag of not seeing the last inning, after staying up late anyway, was the awful chore of finding out how it played out next morning because all the news stories went way overboard on all the ancillary business, without first stating the simple facts of how the Cubs broke the tie and how the Indians rally failed.

Bottom line: Rain delay also keeps baseball off my must-love list. A little rain shower – hold up the World Series, game 7, at midnight – c’mon boys. There may be no crying in baseball, but there sure is dumb.

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2019 Tanglewood schedule

The Boston Symphony Orchestra has released the schedule for the 2019 season at Tanglewood, which will be remembered for the opening of the Tanglewood Learning Institute, the four buildings overlooking Seiji Ozawa Hall on the Leonard Bernstein camopus.

Music director Andris Nelsons will be present for the month of July, conducting 13 programs, including the world premiere of a new work by Kevin Puts, The Brightness of Light, based on letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz on July 20, and a concert performance of Wagner’s complete Die Walküre on july 27 and 28.

Fall foliage in the Berkshires, Lenox, MA

Fall foliage in the Berkshires, seen strolling along Housatonic, Main, Walker, Franklin, and Church streets in the village of Lenox, MA. These photos were made October, 13, 2016; they look at the ordinary rather than the spectacular, hoping to show that a gradual transformation in the village’s abundant foliage is enough enliven an ordinary afternoon stroll.

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