by Greg Colquitt | Jan 25, 2017 | Ski Industry News
The more you know about the natural world, the more interesting the world becomes. It was a simple idea that I picked up from a book. As the story went, a man was on his back porch during an outdoor lunch making bird calls, calling to a few different birds in...
by Dan Giesin | Jan 23, 2017 | Ski Industry News
Although Grand Targhee resort in Wyoming and Powder Mountain in Utah are separated by a couple of hundred miles, they have a lot more in common than Interstate 15, the main access route to the resorts. Both are on the western-most edge of the Rockies; both claim more...
by Kirsten Dobroth | Jan 19, 2017 | Ski Industry News
The town of Breckenridge, Colorado, is once again in the history books, but probably not for the reason that you think. Breckenridge just claimed a world record for the world’s longest shot ski, reclaiming the title from Park City with a 1,997 foot long shot ski...
by Greg Colquitt | Jan 18, 2017 | Ski Industry News
Remember that river of moisture that we couldn’t stop hearing about that dumped 20 something feet of snow on Mammoth Mountain in California? Well in case you missed all the other posts about it, that put them at the top of the list for the deepest snowpack in...
by Dan Giesin | Jan 17, 2017 | Ski Industry News
Safety is no accident, as the old industrial work-place motto goes, and the same holds true with skiing and snowboarding. Every year hundreds of injured wintertime frolickers are carted off North American mountain resorts on a daily basis, and many of them could have...
by Kirsten Dobroth | Jan 12, 2017 | Ski Industry News
The western United States is getting buried in snow. So much snow, in fact, that two Colorado resorts closed, along with a handful of others in California at various points this week. At some mountains, like Mammoth, the lifts are still spinning, but only at partial...
