Boyne Mountain Resort boasts 60 runs on over 400 acres of skiable terrain and is home to the world’s longest timber-towered suspension bridge, SkyBridge Michigan take a chairlift ride up to the bridge to enjoy stunning views over the Boyne Valley after a day on the slopes.īrugeman added, “I learned to ski at Boyne Mountain as a child, on the super-steep eastern face. There's plenty of vertical to get some good turns in, even for a washed-up ski racer, and it makes our cold winters fly by to be outside,” she shared. Every Friday after school, we grab the kids and head over to a family cabin in Petoskey, skiing Boyne all weekend long. But winters here have been the most unexpected surprise. “Northern Michigan is (rightly) celebrated for its summer season. “When we left after 12 years in Colorado to return to Michigan, our home state, we were acutely aware that we were giving up the mountains for the water,” the ski expert noted.
She learned to ski when she was 18 months old, is a former collegiate alpine racer, and even named one of her children after Aspen’s Ajax Mountain. Stacey Brugeman is a Michigan-based food and travel writer who has a long history with winter sports.
