Jackson Hole Mountain Resort Is Now Powers 100% By Renewable Electricity

Jackson Hole Mountain Resort Is Now Powers 100% By Renewable Electricity By: UnofficialNet | September 18, 2019 Effective Immediately Jackson Hole Mountain Resort Powers on Wind Iconic Wyoming Ski Area Moves to 100% Renewable Electricity From Jackson Hole Mountain Resorts In an important operational measure, Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (JHMR) proudly announces a full transition to Green Power for its electricity needs. Effective immediately, all-year-round […]

Investor seeks to stop Vail acquisition of Peak Resorts, including Mount Snow

  Investor seeks to stop Vail acquisition of Peak Resorts, including Mount Snow By Katy Savage Sep 4 2019  Weeks before shareholders are scheduled to vote on Vail’s $436.6 million acquisition of Peak Resorts, one of Peak’s investors has filed a federal lawsuit against the company. The lawsuit, filed by investor John Field in Missouri Eastern […]

Creation and growth of Summit County’s ski areas shaped the mountain sports community

Creation and growth of Summit County’s ski areas shaped the mountain sports community  August 18, 2019 Antonio Olivero Peak 8 Ski Area, the predecessor to the current Breckenridge Ski Resort, is depicted in this drawing from the 1961-62 season. The drawing shows the original half-dozen runs at the ski area.  Courtesy Summit Historical Society Breckenridge […]

Aspen Skiing Co. applies to replace Big Burn chairlift at Snowmass

Moody clouds loom over the Big Burn area on Snowmass Ski Area’s opening day Nov. 22. Anna Stonehouse/Snowmass Sun   Aspen Skiing Co. applies to replace Big Burn chairlift at Snowmass August 22, 2019 Scott Condon Aspen Skiing Co. wants to replace one of its workhorse chairlifts at Snowmass Ski Area and has asked the […]

A Complete List of Every Mountain Vail Resorts Has Ever Purchased

A Complete List of Every Mountain Vail Resorts Has Ever Purchased Over the past two decades, Vail Resorts has dramatically changed the landscape of the ski industry—acquiring properties around the world and becoming the most notorious corporation in mountain resort management. Here’s a timeline of how they did it. BY KEEGAN POPE | AUGUST 15, 2019 What do […]

Details On Mayflower Mountain Resort, Park City’s Newest, Emerge

Details On Mayflower Mountain Resort, Park City’s Newest, Emerge By  Tony Gill  August 19, 2019 What, exactly, is Mayflower Mountain Resort? It’s a difficult question to answer even as details havebegun to emerge about Park City’s impending, new ski resort. Mayflower will have a comprehensively developed base area along U.S. 40 and slopes overlooking the […]

Kind Design

Kind Design was born in the mountains of Vail, CO and inspired by the great outdoors on the foundation of giving back to our community – characteristics we infuse into all of our unique products. We create clothing, art and design work with the intention of spreading kindness towards others and the earth. To accomplish […]

Developer plans to make Utah site the first new full-service ski resort in country since 1980

An artists rendering shows the finished development as Extell Development team shows off their new Mayflower Mountain Resort near Jordanelle Reservoir and Dear Valley Resort on Monday, Aug. 12, 2019.

Developer plans to make Utah site the first new full-service ski resort in country since 1980 Project underway for Mayflower Resort west of Jordanelle, close to Deer Valley By Amy Donaldson  Aug 12, 2019 Looking east over the top of Jordanelle Reservoir, Extell Development team show their new Mayflower Mountain Resort near Dear Valley Resort on Monday, […]

NSCF Newsbeat July-August 2019

NSCF Newsbeat July-August 2019

National Ski Council Federation Newsbeat July-August 2019  Delta Airlines Eliminates Fee for Sporting Equipment Including Bikes. Delta customers traveling with surfboards, bicycles, golf clubs, scuba gear and other large-sized sporting equipment will now be allowed to check them as part of their standard baggage allowance. More. SIA First Tracks Latest Round of Tariffs Would Impact […]

New BLM Appointee Believes Founding Fathers Wanted All Public Lands to Be Sold off

New BLM Appointee Believes Founding Fathers Wanted All Public Lands to Be Sold off By Julia Conley Jul. 31, 2019 Control over nearly 250 million acres of public lands was placed Monday in the hands of a former Reagan administration official who has argued that all federal lands should be sold to fossil fuel and other corporate interests […]

The New Ruins of the Melting Alps

The New Ruins of the Melting Alps Climate change has left a graveyard of abandoned ski resorts on the Italian Alps—and a dwindling population of gravekeepers. By EMILY ATKIN Photography by TOMASO CLAVARINO August 6, 2019 Photographer Tomaso Clavarino has been traveling to Italy’s Alpine glaciers to ski since he was three years old. “It’s a […]

LATEST TRUMP TARIFFS WOULD IMPACT WINTER SPORTS GOODS

LATEST TRUMP TARIFFS WOULD IMPACT WINTER SPORTS GOODS 02 August 2019 SAM Magazine—Washington, D.C., Aug. 2, 2019—President Trump said yesterday that the U.S. will impose a 10 percent tariff on $300 billion worth of Chinese imports, including a great percentage of snowsports products, starting Sept. 1. The move followed two days of trade negotiations with […]

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