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The time to buy your Colorado ski pass is now. Here are the best options for 5 types of skiers. By Jason Blevins September 11, 2017 The first flakes are coming to the mountains in Colorado, so it’s time to get serious about that ski pass. The early spring pass prices — some of which included free kids’ […]
The Biggest Ski Fence In Alaska Alaskan Pat Harmon started with 20 pairs of skis and then… February 13, 2017 By Kade Krichko Pat Harmon doesn’t know how to do things half way. In fact, as the keystone member of the Juneau Bombers, the unofficial group of retirees shredding Alaska’s Eaglecrest Ski Area, he lives by a […]
Own Part Of One of The Best Mountains In B.C. Red Mountain enters phase two of its crowdfunding ownership campaign August 15, 2017 By Jack Foersterling Last August, in the midst of some of the ski industry’s largest mergers and acquisitions, British Columbia’s Red Mountain Resort launched an industry-first crowdfunding campaign titled, “Fight The Man. Own The […]
North Americas Newest Ski Resort Will Offer Year Round Skiing and Largest Vertical by 2019 Steven Agar | August 13, 2017 | Having already approved the project in August 2016, the future of North Americas first year round resort took a step closer to reality when British Columbia government signed a master development agreement with the developers of […]
Passing Through: Schweitzer Named after a cat-eating Swiss hermit, Schweitzer is the place to find snow ghosts in the trees October 08, 2015 By Mychaela Nickoloff Long ago, high in the mountains in Idaho’s panhandle, where the Cabinet Mountains meet the Selkirks, a Swiss hermit built a small cabin in a basin with a massive, glistening lake. […]
Deer Valley Resort to be Acquired by Newly Formed Resort Company and Joined with Intrawest, Mammoth Resorts, and Squaw Valley Ski Holdings By Deer Valley Aug. 21st, 2017 New Company’s portfolio increases from 12 four-season mountain resorts to 13 with the addition of iconic Utah resort The newly formed entity […]
Glacier skiing on Mount Hood is back August 07, 2017 By POWDER This story originally appeared in POWDER. Words by Sierra Davis. Mount Hood in the distance. Photo: Courtesy of Michael Silberstein/Flickr Standing at the top of lane 12 on Mount Hood’s Palmer Glacier, a swarm of preteens on slalom skis buzzed around me. At 8 o’clock in the morning, they had […]
Here’s How The Ski Industry Is Fighting Climate Change By Rose Marie Cleese / August 1, 2017 Cold, snowy weather is the very foundation of the ski industry. Thus, it’s not surprising that climate change has been at the top of the industry’s priority list since the turn of this century. Before that, ski areas relied on rudimentary […]
Off-Season Training Tips the Pros Won’t Tell You About Get your body ready for anything winter will throw at you. August 18, 2017 By Jack Foersterling Let’s admit it, we get lazy this time of year. While others spend their entire their summer getting their bods beach-ready, we’re just recovering. Come warm weather season, our bodies are […]
United Airlines unveils Winter Flight Schedule to Colorado Ski Resorts; adds new Vail route Mark Harden News DirectorDenver Business Journal Aug 8, 2017, 1:50pm MDT United Airlines today announced its winter flight schedule to five Colorado ski destinations from Denver and seven other airports nationwide, and said it will add nonstop service between San Francisco and […]
Snowfall In August On Monarch Pass In Colorado LadyBrains | August 6, 2017 | Image: Weather-Colorado, 9news.com On Thursday August 3rd, Colorado saw snowfall on the top of the high mountain Monarch Pass. Local drivers commented that conditions changed as they drove up the pass and temperatures dropped. Rain turned into freezing rain, turned into pea sized […]
A Ski Season, In Six Scenes Six essays that capture why we ski August 08, 2017 By John Clary Davies These six essays originally appeared as the intros to the six issues of our 45th volume. Our first issue of volume 46 prints soon. I: Welcome Back Fall is the hardest season. The days are shorter […]
