For Immediate Release: February 17, 2014 Contact: Yani Leon 626.376.9754 yani@natja.org JAYME MOYE TRAVEL JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR PASADENA, CA– The North American Travel Journalists Association (NATJA) today announced that Jayme Moye won the Grand Prize in the 2013 Annual NATJA Awards Competition for overall excellence in travel journalism. This awards competition, now in its 22nd year, honors the “best of the best” in travel writing, photography, and promotion. In addition to the overall prize, Moye won a Gold prize in the category Personality and Profiles (Print) for her story about…

Sometimes hard works pays off. Or, if you’re the self-deprecating type, sometimes you get lucky. When I got an email from an editor at New York magazine asking if I was interested in writing a short travel article on lesser-known ski resorts, I figured it was a bit of both. One of the resorts I included in the story was Monarch Mountain, located 2.5 hours southwest of Denver. Monarch is my favorite ski mountain in Colorado for it’s authenticity (read: no fur coats), friendly vibe (read: no aggro jerks ever),…