The Camden Snow Bowl

About The Camden Snow Bowl

On Ragged Mountain you ski toward the ocean — Hosmer Pond below you, Penobscot Bay laid out past it, a view that stops people mid-run. The Camden Snow Bowl deals in snow as a matter of course, and that extends to clearing it where nobody wants it: driveways plowed, lots opened up, walkways and entries shoveled and sanded. A storm that makes the hill good also buries every dooryard in town, and both of those belong to the same morning. Cold starts, headlights on new powder, the scrape of a blade before the light comes up. By the time the lifts turn, the ground below is open.