Breaking Money Silence

Eric Friedman, Mad River Glen,  Marketing Director When you look for an activity to do as a family – with your kids, your grandkids – does skiing enter the picture or is it immediately rejected because of the cost? Kathleen and Eric discuss the myth that skiing is too expensive and offer you tips for saving money when you do hit the slopes. Eric Friedman comes from a long line of great, Jewish skiers from New Jersey and didn’t realize until he was an adult that it wasn’t normal for kids to ski 4 days a week. After attending New England College, training as a high school social studies teacher, he fell into the ski business at Mad River Glen in Vermont. For the past 24 years, he has been the Marketing Director of the iconic ski area and is proud of his contribution to resuscitating the legendary ski area as America’s only cooperative owned, not-for-profit ski area. He raised two children in Vermont’s Mad River Valley and still resides in town with his cat. He is excited to soon be moving in with his new wife