NBC TV celebrity reports weather from Hidden Valley

Vernon — The Hidden Valley Family Club had a special guest on Saturday, Dec. 22 — NBC TV’s weather reporter, SallyAnn Mosey. Mosey had contacted Kendall Kless, sales and marketing director at Hidden Valley, earlier in the week expressing an interest in broadcasting a live weather segment from Hidden Valley, and spicing up the TV segment with the reporter’s first attempt at snowboarding. Mosey, an Emmy-nominated reporter, is the station’s weekend morning meteorologist, delivering weather reports for WNBC’s “Weekend Today In New York.” She and her crew arrived at Hidden Valley at 8 a.m. Dec. 22, in two technical TV trucks carrying the essential equipment, cameras and satellite uplink to broadcast live. The details of the broadcast segment were discussed, the cameras were set up and tested, and Mosey took a couple of minutes to get some snowboarding advice and instruction from Kless and Hidden Valley’s head snowboarding instructor Rick Micewski. After just a few moments of practice, Mosey was making short runs and controlled stops causing Kless to comment, “She’s going to be good at this!” Mosey admitted to having skied in the past but not recently — a sport she learned growing up in Buffalo, N.Y., at Holiday Mountain Ski Resort and the HoliMont Ski Area. Indeed, Mosey proved herself to be a skilled skier by taking a couple of runs following the TV segment with some of her newfound friends at Hidden Valley. The weather report for Saturday’s WNBC’s “Weekend Today In New York” show included an interview with Kless, Micewski and Hidden Valley’s mountain operations manager, Dennis Hey. The TV broadcast went off without a hitch and included segments where Mosey got instruction from Micewski and then demonstrated her skill in sliding down a short slope and stopping just short of her anxious cameraman. As the weather report segment came to a conclusion, a light snow began to fall, motivating Mosey to take a couple of runs on skis on the pristine snow that covered the slopes. With Mosey in tow, Kless headed for the Hidden Valley rental shop to fit the reporter with skis, boots and poles. And then they were off to the Hidden Valley double chair that would carry them to the top of the mountain for a few runs to end a perfect day. After two runs, Mosey was hooked. She attempted to contact her husband by cell phone based on the hope that she could persuade him to drop what he was doing at home and pack their four children in the car and join her. He reminded her that they had a previous commitment, which caused her to reluctantly end her visit to Hidden Valley, but with the promise that she and her family would be back another day, not to report on the weather, but to enjoy the resort.