A website developer and freelance writer, Susan McCormick  frequently writes for ski industry consumer and trade publications. The former Managing Editor of Couloir Magazine, she has traveled all over the U.S. – as well as Canada, New Zealand, Switzerland, India, Chileand Argentina- writing destination pieces. Susan’s ski and travel stories appear in Skiing Magazine, Ski Press Magazine, SnoWorld Magazine, the SnowPress Show Daily and REI.com. Susan is the President of McCormick & Winter (mccormickandwinter.com), a website development and Internet marketing company. She lives in Truckee, California and spends plenty of time “researching” in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Rob McCormick is Susan’s husband and co-contributor to the blog. He has lived in North Lake Tahoe since 1994. After sixteen seasons as a passholder at Squaw Valley he now gets the most challenge and fulfillment from pursuing backcountry tours in the North Lake Tahoe/Truckee region and beyond.