BY MATT SCHOOLEY Faced with the decision to amputate his right leg or struggle to walk without the use a cane for the rest of his life, Jon Parker took some time to weigh his options – about five seconds. The Bow resident, then 15, had been cut off by a skier on his last ski run of the day at Burke Mountain Academy in ...

BY MATT STOUT Deb Flanders remembers it clearly, the letter that Ian Hanson gave her more than two years ago. Then a freshman ski racer, Hanson had just balked at offers and partial financial aid packages from some of the country’s top ski academies, high-priced institutions that mix academics and intense training to produce some of the ...