![]() To the west, the granitic West Mountains form one boundary of Long Valley, and McCall sits near the valley’s northern terminus. While life is much different here than it was for Miller’s characters in 1902, or even for Miller herself when she wrote the book in 1965 from her McCall home, much of the natural world remains the same. Ski the Mountain was the perfect selection for our family trip to this small resort town on the southern edge of Payette Lake. When we travel, I like to read books set in the area. ![]() We put our skis in the tracks and glided through the fog engulfing the entire Long Valley. “By concentrating, however, he found that he could easily follow the deep tracks, because his skis slid more easily in them than in unbroken snow.”Īnd so it was for us. “He felt as if he swam in a gray ocean of fog and snow, glided on a world of gray,” Miller writes. When we started sliding, we bent our knees a little bit and enjoyed the glide until it petered out, and it was time to put some more muscle into it. ![]() ![]() ![]() When our skis stopped running, we knew it was time to climb the small hills. We, too, felt where we were going more than we saw it. ![]()
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