All the Latest Updates on Locals’ Plan to Purchase Mt. Bachelor, OR [Updated December 11, 2024] On August 22, 2024, POWDR Corporation announced it wasย selling Killington Resort and Pico Mountain, Vermont, to local pass holders, as well as three other resorts, includingย Mt. Bachelor, Oregon, which it has owned since 2001 and is the largest ski resort in the Pacific Northwest. Shortly after the announcement, a local group, now called Mount Bachelor Community Inc. (MBCI), emerged to […] Industry News Brent Thomas | December 11, 2024 0 Comments
Solitude, UT, Calls Locals a “Threat” to its Business, Later Offers Clarification At its annual end-of-season Town Hall meeting, Solitude Mountain, UT, presented a PowerPoint presentation that labeled locals as a threat to its business. Related: [VIDEO] All The Snow Records Utah Ski Areas Broke Last Season The presentation was a five-year plan with a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis. Under “Threats: What could prevent us?”, it simply listed “Locals.” […] Industry News Brent Thomas | June 29, 2023 0 Comments
Hometown Mountain Shoutout: Big Sky Resort, MT Growing up in Big Sky, I learned to ski when I was two and I was in Ski School every week until I was too old.ย As part of gym class at Ophir School, we also had the opportunity to ski during school days on Fridays during the winter.ย And, extra bonus, on Wednesdays I got out of school early […] Brains Gabrielle Gasser | June 12, 2020 2 Comments
Vail, CO Opening Day 2019 Vail, Colorado is now open for the 2019-2020 winter season! Lifts started spinning at the resort last Friday, November 15th. New for this season at Vail is a snowmaking system with approximately 80 fixed location cannons lining the sides of runs like trees.ย Snowmaking crews have been hard at work all preseason, and locals report that the snow was riding […] Industry News SnowBrains | November 19, 2019 0 Comments
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