Summer ain't a bummer, but I'll to be glad to be back on the snow! 
     Each winter, I try to visit a ski area I've never skied before. One winter, we skied Howelsen Hill in Steamboat Springs. It is the "other" ski hill in Steamboat. A year before that, we skied the hill at West Point, named after Victor Constant. One year, we skied down South in North Carolina. That happens to be where this year's novel, A Southern Slope, takes place.
      BTW, this pix shows off my old racing suit and my old mustache!