Hometown Mountain Shoutout: Arapahoe Basin, CO—Summit County’s Soul I first laid my eyes on the mountains when I was five-years-old. My parents loaded my siblings and me into a gold two-wheel-drive minivan in Kansas City and headed west. After being away from skiing for more than five years, my dad wanted to get back on snow just as badly as he wanted to introduce it to us. We […] Noah Wehrman | December 12, 2025 0 Comments
Hometown Mountain Shoutout: Snowy Range Ski Area, WY—My Hidden Gem Everyone knows the feeling: the energy that is too much to contain builds up all week while you watch weather reports and chase storms online—even going to the extent of camping in the parking lot to cherish those first turns. We all search for that place that feels special. That place that feels like ours. For me, that hidden gem […] Russell Parker | December 5, 2025 3 Comments
The Key to Unlocking Growth in the Ski Participation Rate: Keep Moms Happy Just in time for Mother’s Day, Momtrends Media is announced the results of the inaugural Ski Moms’ Happiness Survey. This first of its kind survey reveals an enormous opportunity for ski areas to increase participation through improved access for families. The comprehensive survey, conducted in the 2023-2024 ski season, included responses from over 1,000 ski-loving moms across the United […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | May 12, 2024 1 Comment
Beaver Mountain, UT, Report: All I Want For Christmas is to Ski The Beav Report from Saturday, December 23, 2023 There’s only one thing better than skiing. It’s going skiing with friends and family. We gathered the fam this Christmas weekend and took a trip north from Salt Lake to Beaver Mountain. The uniquely east-facing mountain is located about 45 minutes away from Logan, Utah, in the Northern Wasatch Mountains—about a 2-2.5 hour drive […] Conditions Report Martin Kuprianowicz | December 24, 2023 1 Comment
Finland’s First 8-Person Chair to Open at Ruka Ski Resort This December Ruka Ski Resort in Finland will be opening its first 8-chair on the new Masto’s ski area. The Leitner chair “Masto III” will have a capacity of 4,000 people per hour and will travel at a speed of 6 m/s, making it Finland’s fastest chairlift. The trip to the top of the Masto ski area will only take 2 minutes. […] Industry News Julia Schneemann | November 1, 2023 1 Comment
Hometown Mountain Shoutout — Mt. Bachelor, OR: Volcanic Vibes, Tantalizing Trees There are few places like Bend, Oregon, where you can gaze up thousands of feet to marvel at a half dozen prominent peaks rising out of the high desert. In the past half-century, Bend has become known as an outdoors utopia for all-season play. And just twenty miles from Bend sits Mt. Bachelor, a 9,068-foot volcano. Depicted above is the […] Nicky Blumm | October 12, 2023 0 Comments
Northstar California: Where I Learned to Ski with Papou I began learning how to ski at the ripe young age of four. Every generation in my family skis, and it was so fun growing up and getting out on the mountain with them all. Some of my fondest memories are of the trips I used to take with my grandfather, or Papou, as he was known in Greek. Papou […] Alex Mangels | June 7, 2021 3 Comments
Is This the Year to Ski with the Youngster? It’s as Easy as A-B-Skis! Skiing with your kids can be the highlight of raising them but can prove to be quite challenging. Thanks to a few passionate and influential individuals a new book to help motivate the little ones is now available. Libby Ludlow, a mother and Olympic skier, and Nathan Jarvis, an internationally known children’s book illustrator, are proud to release their new […] Industry News Ryan Nadiak | November 7, 2019 0 Comments
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