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WATERVILLE IN MY WORDS AS TOLD TO MEGHAN MCCARTHY MCPHAUL What’s it like to live your childhood zeroed in on the idea of competing on snowsports’ world stage? What’s it look like after you fish through the office costume box for the 20th time of the season, all in the name of ensuring others’ good times? What’s it feel like to get smacked with a snowball while hurtling through a heckling mob on a snowboard? Yes, the experiences we carve in this Valley are built a bit differently. But these four Valley diehards wouldn’t have it any other way. WATERVILLE.COM �� #WVRESORT p 24 Inside the controlled chaos of the Mike Baker Banked Slalom p 25 Bringing a bit of Halloween to every day of the ski season p 26 Growing up in the Valley’s school of snowboarding p 27 A flatlander finds a winter passion he never saw coming COM


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