WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE between tailgating for a football game and tailgating at a ski area? Well, in the latter you probably don’t have to listen to an argument over NFL overtime rules.
Mountain tailgating is for rehashing a great day on the snow, sharing photos of a buddy’s yard sale of a fall, or simply celebrating that the kids didn’t shove each other off a chairlift. And in the Northwest, it’s only getting bigger.
Which is not to say fancier. The term après-ski—French for “after ski” and mostly used as a verb—has been around since 1951, but that conjures chic decadent cocktails in a mountain lodge, with women in Dr. Zhivago-style fur
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