by Sierra Thomas | Sep 19, 2023 | Blog
What Growing Up Skiing in Michigan Taught Me As I sit back and reminisce about my childhood winters in Michigan, the first image that always comes to mind is the snow-covered landscape, with every tree branch weighed down by a thick blanket of fresh powder. But what...
by Jack McNary | Apr 13, 2023 | Blog, Ski Industry News, Ski Resort Marketing
Saving the best days for last? Well folks, it has been a phenomenal ski year out West (sorry East coast skiers, maybe next year!), and with that comes the most heart-wrenching time of year, when we must say goodbye to our beloved mountains and let the beauty of summer...
by Jack McNary | Mar 14, 2023 | Blog, Ski Industry News, Ski Resort Marketing, Top 10 Best Snow
About 7 hours south of Denver, striated cliff bands welcome you as you make your way up through the town of Durango to Purgatory Mountain Resort. The name of the resort is certainly a misnomer – Purgatory appears to be anything but! Protected by its remote location,...
by Dan Giesin | Mar 8, 2023 | Beginner, Blog, Expert, Intermediate, Ski Industry News
Skiing has been around for quite some time — there are cave paintings of our Ice Age forebears chasing game on wooden slats — but it’s only been in the last century or so that the activity morphed from a mundane, generally pastoral and/or hunting activity into an...
by Dan Giesin | Feb 28, 2023 | Beginner, Blog, Expert, Intermediate, Ski Industry News
No matter where you are in snow country, the winter of 2022-23 has been something of a challenge: Too much snow out West, too little back East, and too much down time because of that. So I say it’s high time we bid Old Man Winter adieu — for better or for worse — and...
by Dan Giesin | Feb 22, 2023 | Beginner, Blog, Expert, Intermediate, Ski Industry News
We’re just going to throw it right out there: Reno can make a great case for itself as being the best base camp in North America for skiers and snowboarders. Tucked up against the east side of the northern Sierra Nevada range and inside an hour’s drive away from that...
