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Like It or Not, Snowmaking Is The Future Snowmaking has become energy efficient and essential to ski resort operations. But is it a necessary evil or a savior? August 29, 2017 By Julie Brown Snowmaking, as everybody knows, is Plan B. We’d all rather ski on natural, God-given powder that falls from stormy clouds. The real stuff […]
Lake Tahoe water level approaches max limit after heat wave June 26, 2017 By Robert Pursell Californians and Nevadans who watched Lake Tahoe’s water levels recede during the historic drought experienced in the states over the past few years are dealing with a completely different situation now, as the San Francisco Chronicle reports that a recent heat wave poured […]
HERE’S WHAT 5 POW AMBASSADORS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE PEOPLE’S CLIMATE MARCH By: Jill Sanford May 2, 2017 On April 29th, over 200,000 people showed up in Washington, D.C. to march on behalf of climate action. The People’s Climate March in our nation’s capitol was sweltering, but dedicated activists took on the heat and […]
So It’s Not The Rockies. But What Makes Mom-And-Pop Special? Ski Butternut in the Berkshires: All you need for a fun day with friends at a typical local area. Credit: Ski Butternut [Editor Note: As we are seeing in a month of startling industry news, the ski business is rapidly consolidating. Big corporations are buying […]
By Paddy O’Connell The logs in the potbelly stove crack and hiss with heat. Jess McLaughlin sits in front of the roaring cast iron beast rubbing her hands together. She can see her breath inside the house this morning. It’s November 1981. Jess is 10 years old. Her father has taken a job in Telluride, […]
Vail Resorts is reporting that the six-place chairlifts at its ski areas are working well to ease crowding. The company will install three more six-place lifts in Colorado this summer, one each at Vail, Breckenridge and Keystone. EAGLE COUNTY — Before sliding down a hill, it’s first necessary to go up that hill. […]
Ski season kicks off November 24, 2016, at Telluride Ski Resort, where there is something for everyone to enjoy both on and off the snow. ( Ben Eng/Telluride Ski Resort/TNS) TELLURIDE, Colo. — A sapphire sky on a sunny day. The aroma of rich, creamy mushroom soup. Larmandier-Bernier Champagne chilling. Bon Vivant restaurant puts […]
In the ever-competitive ski market, the county’s resorts invest millions of dollars every off season to make improvements and keep the crowds of skiers and snowboarders coming. Although three of the region’s five resorts aren’t scheduled to open until this Friday, following historically dry Octobers and starts to November, fresh offerings and upgrades […]
Opening Jan. 20, the remodeled Vail Cascade Resort is now Hotel Talisa, with 285 rooms and a spa. Photo Credit: Hotel Talisa This winter will welcome a crop of five-star hotel openings in major ski resort towns around the world. Here are some of the ones that stand out. 1. HUUS HOTEL, GSTAAD, SWITZERLAND […]
By Thomas Korosec – Special to the American-Statesman Austinite Peter Rauch vowed he would never buy a second home at a ski area because he didn’t want to limit himself to skiing just one mountain. Shortly afterward, he recalls, he bought a house in Taos. “It’s just a great ski area,” he says. “You have […]
This year, the Mountain Collective Pass got sweeter. New Zealand’s Coronet Peak and The Remarkables join Australia’s Thredbo to double South Pacific destinations. The Mountain Collective Pass is the largest worldwide ski pass with destinations in the most countries. It has 12-full partner destinations. In North America, Stowe is the only ski resort on the […]
By Brad Ressler Ski hills are major landforms, not just vertical playgrounds. New tools like Google Earth allow us to glimpse the entirety of the mountains on which ski resorts reside, and even zoom in, tilt, and twirl to experience the pitch and roll of these areas. Big Sky, Montana What began as a gleam […]
