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Snow Days: Skiing and Snowboarding
Gear, Grub and Great Deals at Up North SlopesPlus, Northern Home & Cottage's Feature on Northern Michigan's Most Famous House
December 2009 issue includes:- Powder Play: Extreme hills. Hot rails. Steaming breakfasts. Snow-chilled martinis. Warren Miller shares a Michigan Memory. Olympian Julie Parisien shares gear picks. X-Gamer Morgan LaFonte says do push ups before you board. Our annual kick-off to skiing and snowboarding
- Winter's Nectar: The sweetest taste born in an Up North winter is harvested at daybreak on a 17-dgree December morning. Our intrepid wine reporter is there to share the moment and clip some frozen grapes herself.
- The Christmas Gift: His father had recently died, so 14-year-old Tony took it upon himself to round up a grouse and a pick for the holiday feast.
- A Sausage-Makers Craft: He'd had three heart attacks. He was depressed. He saw a dim future. Then Brian Neff started making sausage again, and his life was saved. We all can benefit.
- Northern Home & Cottage:See inside the internationally acclaimed Douglas House by Richard Meier; Boyne's Kathryn Kircher invites us in; styling with greens for the season.
Departments:
- Up North: Our favorite French hairdresser advises on a holiday coiffure; Gabe Schneider, the snowboarding senate aide; Patty Cantrell tells D.C. what what with local foods; Northern Bookshelf gift ideas.
- Travel: Escape Up North for a weekend of shopping and small-town warmth.
- Up in Michigan: I'll give you a goat if you make my website ... bartering in the North Country.
- Dining: Sublime small plates for lighter dining during the season of feasts.
- In Season: Olives with orange and fennel.
- Wine: Fizzy wines for your festivities and a Q&A with Larry Mawby, the North's sparkling-wine savant.
- Outdoors: Why fur feels so warm.
- Into the North: Wind & Sea.
- Calendar of Events
- Restaurant Guide
- Founder Deb Wyatt Fellows' column