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Over the Hill: Curing the winter blues with snow sports

by HAILEY HILL
Staff Writer | January 9, 2025 1:00 AM

SANDPOINT — Since moving to North Idaho, I’ve been given all sorts of advice by locals. A lot of this advice has centered around getting through winter.

As someone who hadn’t seen real snow until I was 20 years old, I was equal parts excited and weary as I heeded the warnings of winter — the (very) early sunsets, below-freezing daytime highs and the scarcity of sunny days lingered in the back of my mind as I looked forward to seeing some real snowfall.

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