Black Mountain in New Hampshire Fires Up Snow Guns in April With Plans to Stay Open Until May While most New England ski areas have already called it a season, Black Mountain is pushing hard in the opposite direction—firing up snow guns in April and aiming to spin lifts through May 3. The 89-year-old ski area in the White Mountains made headlines this month after cranking up its snowmaking system on April 9, long after neighboring mountains like […] Industry News SnowBrains | April 15, 2025 0 Comments
Indy Pass Becomes the Temporary Owner of Historic Black Mountain in New Hampshire JACKSON, NEW HAMPSHIRE—The Indy Pass and Entabeni Systems have purchased Black Mountain, New Hampshire’s oldest ski area, from the Fichera family. For the past 30 years, the Fichera family has worked tirelessly to keep the mountain open for the community to enjoy. Indy Pass will own and operate the resort for this coming season and will transfer the ownership to […] Industry News SnowBrains | October 5, 2024 0 Comments
4-Year-Old Summits All 48 4,000-Foot Peaks in New Hampshire Meet Lydia Pearson, the 4-year-old who now holds the record for the youngest person to hike all 48 of New Hampshire’s 4,000-footers. Make no mistake, this is not Lydia’s first time on these peaks, but it is the first time hiking them on her own two feet. Her mother, Whitney Pearson, carried Lydia up all 48 of these peaks multiple […] Climbing Dylan Bradley | July 4, 2024 0 Comments
23/24 Skier Visits in Vermont and New Hampshire Show Successful Season Any discussion of the ski season has to start with the weather and the 800-pound gorilla outside the room. Eastern skiers and riders want it cold for snowmaking while they wait for snow; Western residents need big storms to cover their great expanses of terrain.  Early season conditions for the 23-24 season posed challenges for both eastern and western ski […] Industry News David Michael | June 26, 2024 0 Comments
[FOR SALE] Abandoned Ski Mountain in New Hampshire Could Be Yours for $3.2 Million An old treasure to the state of New Hampshire and once a frequent destination for skiers and riders of the Northeast has gone back on sale at a bargain price of $3.2 million. The mountain, once known as Whittier Mountain, sits on 797 lush acres of New England forest, with most of its nostalgic trails now overgrown. With the demand […] Industry News Kenneth Condon | April 16, 2024 4 Comments
The New England Ski Museum — A Quaint Stop For Your Next Trip to New Hampshire Anyone who has grown up skiing in New England knows that this area of America has some of the richest and most diverse history that the sport has to offer in the United States. From local mom-and-pop ski areas to the iconic mountains that dominate the Northeast ski landscape today, there is so much to learn and appreciate about skiing […] Brains Liam Abbott | March 21, 2024 0 Comments
New Hampshire & Maine Ski Resorts Close Due to Flash Flooding Parts of New England have been affected by serious storms that have seen winds of up to 132mph at peak and heavy rainfall causing flash flooding on Monday, December 18, 2023. The devastating weather has forced the closure of many ski resorts since Monday. Those ski areas that managed to open Monday, shut down early as the damaging winds moved […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | December 18, 2023 0 Comments
Ski New Hampshire Reports 13% Increase in Skier Visits in 2022/23 Ski New Hampshire reported Granite State ski areas finished the 2022/23 season with strong results, with skier visitation at alpine ski areas up 13% over the previous season. Despite weather challenges early on, the state saw an increase to over 2.2 million skier visits. NH skier visit growth was almost double the nationwide average (6.6% vs. 13% increase, respectively). Ski […] SnowBrains | June 14, 2023 0 Comments
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