I've written about skiing for 30 years, as a veteran of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette newsroom, a member of the Eastern Ski Writers Association, and as executive editor of Mountain News Corp. and OnTheSnow.com. I learned to downhill at Wachusett, at night, when it was T-bars only, the lodge was an A-frame and the ticket booth was a tiny stand-alone. Lots of changes since then, here and elsewhere.