Powder

Jail Break

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Allan Haber spent his first ski season in Upstate New York. He was 28 years old. He didn’t ski at Whiteface, or Hunter Mountain, or in the backcountry, or anywhere else you’d recognize, unless you were also a convicted felon. As a young man, Haber dealt heroin during the late ’60s and ’70s, which resulted in 15 years in and

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