Start by booking a stay at the Izaak Walton Inn in Essex. Their guide will teach you how to ski and take you to some unique places. Mark is good and will not get you in over your head unless that's the kind of powder you like. Amtrak's Empire Builder leaves Chicago every afternoon and stops in Essex the next evening.Selkie wrote:We got a nice blast. Temp this morning in Chicago is minus 1, wind chill about minus 10.
Wish I were a better XC skier. I'd love to do a winter ski trip of Glacier, Flathead, Yellowstone...