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First Chair - Winter 2010 + 2011
When given the option to change or stand pat, it seems change is always the more difficult option. Standing pat is simple; you just stand...
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Jay Peak Feedback Prompt
We’ve always been a little more nuts than bolts with a few loose screws (or, possibly, just tools in general). Too much fresh air and...
Steven Wright
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Chef Joey Buttendorf
Steve Wright talks to Jay Peak’s new Executive Chef about food, the depths we’ll travel to in the name of love, and frozen Fava Beans....
Steven Wright
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The Jay Way
The Jay Way is an uncommon take It’s easy to follow but tougher to fake It’s seniors and juniors and never before's It’s powder and...
Steven Wright
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First Hand - Summer 2015
Long before the notion of gaming went from verb to noun, and even before either dungeons or dragons came forward to introduce fantasy...
Steven Wright
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The Prehistory of the Northeast Kingdom - A Song of Birki and Jaya
Before Gluskab of the Abenaki made the world safe for humans, the Monts–mountain-like children of the creator and Gaia–walked and talked...
Steven Wright
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This Is Me - Melissa Sheffer
I was born and raised in Panama. My Dad worked at Fort Clayton around the time the Panama Canal Zone designation was ending. He worked...
Steven Wright
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Kathy Whitehill
In Vermont her own life. Born in Newport. Grew up in Irasburg. Lived in Troy for 25 years. Been at Jay Peak for 10-15 years on the...
Steven Wright
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In Defense of Wandering - Meagan Robidoux
Lobster Cakes with Jay Peak Nordic Center Manager Meagan Robidoux Megan Robidoux is the Nordic Skiing Manager at Jay Peak. She has been...
Steven Wright
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Go Ask Alice
I recently had a conversation with Alice Chicoine-a Jay Peak Housekeeper, bed-maker, and Raised—Jayer for the better part of 35 years. I...
Steven Wright
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First Light - Summer 2014
I have this plant in my office that, each year around this same time, spits forth a red flower. I’m not sure of its species though I...
Steven Wright
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First Chair - Winter 2015 + 2016
We take the notion of sinning, seriously. Seriously enough to bow toward it, toward them, as this year’s compass. Bow feels too...
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First Chair - Winter 2019 + 2020
I am sitting in the office of our graphic designer, Krissy Schmaling, talking about the relationship between analog and digital and the...
Steven Wright
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First Chair 2012
It’s really the damn marketers fault. The expectations we put on vacations and corresponding, though potentially unconscious, notion...
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First Chair - Winter 2014 + 2015
Hot August rain is hammering away as we put together random pieces of conscious and unconscious thought here in Jay Peak Winter Magazine...
Steven Wright
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First Light - Summer 2016
Who doesn’t need or hasn’t, at some point even held out for, a hero? If you’re 40ish and of MTV-generation stock, you likely immediately...
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First Chair - Winter 2013 + 2014
Side, Side, Everywhere a Side When you grow as quickly as we have these past several years, there are certain things that, often slowly,...
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First Light 2013
I started taking French in the 7th grade. And by taking I mean slouching, perfecting the ACDC lightning bolt doodle on my book-covers...
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First Chair - Winter 2018 + 2019
Given what we’ve been through these past few years, how aggressively we’ve grown and added and expanded, it’s well-considered to be the...
Steven Wright
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First Chair - Winter 2017 + 2018
Even If you’ve taken more than a cursory-glance at this year’s Jay Peak Magazine cover, it’s unlikely you’re making the connection...
Steven Wright
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