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The Massachusetts Ski Business Is Booming As People Clamor To Get Outside Snowboarders step off a chairlift at Wachusett Mountain Ski Area, in Princeton, Mass., in this file photo from December 2012. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) Good luck getting tickets this holiday period if you want to ski in Massachusetts. A combination of pent-up energy, early season snowfall and tough COVID restrictions in other New England states has pushed demand through the roof. “As we headed into this season, we anticipated demand for skiing and snowboarding to be higher than normal,” said Tom Meyers, Director of M...

Photograph courtesy of Berkshire East and Tino Specht Jon Schaefer grew up in Charlemont, a community of nearly 1,300 that lies between Williamstown and Interstate 91. His family owns the local Berkshire East Mountain Resort, where he and his siblings, and most everyone in the hill-towns region, learned to ski. Some Schaefer family members became racers, traveling to compete on some of the world’s most daunting and magnificent alpine heights. “When you’re in a little town in New Zealand and it’s in the middle of nowhere in the South Pacific, but it’s full of fun outdoor activities a...