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When I pulled the Maserati Ghibli S Q4 into the parking lot at Cascade Mountain ? a generous description of the hill that lay in front of me to be sure ? I couldn?t help but feel a little out of place. In a parking lot filled mostly with SUVs, Crossovers, and Subarus, I was one of the few who had piloted a four-door vehicle with a trunk to the slopes that day. There were a smattering of Audis with Quattro and there might have been a BMW 3 series with xDrive, but I guarantee you no one else had the joy of driving an all-wheel drive Italian sedan to the slopes today.If you love to ski like I do and live in the midwest, you just can?t jet to Alta, Whistler or Zermatt as every winter weekend, as tempting as that sounds. So what?s a ski bum to do when you want to keep your skills sharp but can?t get away to a snowcapped mountain half a continent away" You load your gear in the car, trade in about 1,500 feet of vertical, and drive to one of the small, but surprisingly satisfying, ski areas in Wisconsin.With the interstate choked with SUVs and crossovers filled with families from Chicago, I mapped out a route that avoided the four-lane parking lot, taking me along the Wisconsin River and through rolling farmlands of the Dairy St...