May 4
Gabrielle McCracken was looking for an activity to keep her sons — Oliver, 3, and Sebastian, 5 — busy during the pandemic last winter when she turned to skiing at Greek Peak Mountain Resort in Virgil.
“They like being outside,” McCracken said Tuesday. “Being outside sweating and playing was not enough so we wanted to try this. … They had a great time.”
The ski slopes were busy and the lift lines at the beginner hills were long at times during their two visits, but the family enjoyed a new winter sport.
“The lines can definitely get a little long,” said McCracken, who revived her interest in skiing while teaching her sons the sport.
The Marathon resident said she was glad to hear of Greek Peak’s plans to improve snow making on several trails and improve facilities on the novice slopes.
Greek Peak is adding a larger chairlift and creating a family-friendly trail to accommodate novice skiers attracted to the sport during the COVID-19 pandemic, Jon Spaulding, Greek Peak’s director of marketing, said Monday.
The resort is replacing a double-chair lift with a triple-chair lift to eliminate a bottleneck, and adding a new trail between Chairs 4 and 5.
The nearly 2,000-foot, family-style trail with a 300-foot vertical drop will feature high berm turns with rollers and beginner glades on the side.
