If you’re feeling that our bubble just cracked, know this: Vermonters are good with duct tape. Seriously, life goes on and so do we. Meantime, our annual Winter Preview Issue reminds us that the season brings cheer as well as chill. We find plenty of wall-climbing fun at the Stowe Adventure Center, and tell you when, where and why to watch the women’s alpine World Cup at Killington this month. We meet the man who drives the sleigh at Shelburne Farms, and the guy who invented a fat bike ski. Finally, we check in with forecasters to see if the sky will let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Let’s go play, everybody.

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This article appears in The Winter Preview Issue 2016.

Pamela Polston is a contributing arts and culture writer and editor. She cofounded Seven Days in 1995 with Paula Routly and served as arts editor, associate publisher and writer. Her distinctive arts journalism earned numerous awards from the Vermont Press Association, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia and the New England Newspaper & Press Association. Pamela was inducted into the New England Newspaper Hall of Fame in 2015. In 2021, the Vermont Arts Council presented her with the Walter Cerf...