You Can Get Paid To Live In Aspen, CO And Play With A Dog? It’s the dream job: the St. Regis Aspen Resort is hiring an official “Fur Butler” to attend to every need of their adored resident dog, Kitty. The St. Regis Aspen Resort, one of many Marriot St. Regis hotels worldwide, opened in 1992 and is a staple of the luxury travel industry in Aspen, Colorado due to its prime location at […] Laughs Lucy Ferneyhough | November 14, 2019 0 Comments
Trail Map Artist James Niehues Wins Hall Of Fame Nomination If you’ve ever been to a ski resort, chances are you’ve laid eyes on one of artist James Niehues’ paintings. Iconic, precise and visually pleasing, Niehues has created over 350 views of mountain aspects for ski resorts since his first painted map in 1988. His paintings are featured all over the world. James Niehues hand paints each painting with brush and […] Sydney Stephens | September 6, 2019 0 Comments
How Climate Change Will Affect Skiing Researchers decided to project the consequences of climate change on ski season by using US resorts as a case study. The effects, however, will be felt worldwide. Ski season is going to be shorter everywhere. Higher elevations will be especially important as trends continue, but all resorts will likely have to increase their reliance on snowmaking machines: but even these require […] Conditions Report Sydney Stephens | December 14, 2018 13 Comments
Do Lifties Have the Best Job Ever? Brought to you by Monarch Mountain Skiing makes the world go-’round … and lifties make the chairlifts go ’round. Lift operators, or lifties, are some of the coolest people on the mountain and work in one of the most awesome positions in the job market. Whether the liftie works at a smaller, local mountain, or a massively commercialized mountain, they […] Jesse | December 4, 2018 0 Comments
Sugar Bowl Resort, CA Launches $8 Million Snowmaking Initiative Sugar Bowl Resort, CA sits nestled in the peaks of Donner Summit. Known for its heavy snowfall and exciting terrain, this Sierra Nevada gem belongs on the bucket list. Even though this resort sees record breaking winters, investments in snowmaking are still on the priority list. According to a recent Sugar Bowl Resort press release, the resort has announced an […] Industry News Katy Shipley | August 7, 2018 0 Comments
Mammoth Mountain, CA Conditions Report: Spring Groomers, Wind Buff, and Wild Mountains At the end of every season, a spring Mammoth Mountain trip is called for. We left Donner Summit, CA early on Saturday morning and showed up for some afternoon fun. Friday night brought low temperatures, skiffs of new snow, and high winds, so we took our time and let things heat up. Lower aspects were perfect creamy corn snow– always a spring favorite. Steep wind buffed […] Conditions Report Katy Shipley | May 15, 2018 0 Comments
7 Reasons to Ride and Ski Grand Targhee, WY [sponsored by Grand Targhee] Grand Targhee Ski Resort is often overlooked for some of it’s more famous neighbouring resorts, which is precisely what makes it worth it! Get there soon before the secret is out. #1) THE SNOW Grand Targhee Ski Resort averages more than 500 inches of snow each season. That’s the fifth snowiest resort in America. As weather […] Conditions Report Kim Vinet | April 16, 2018 1 Comment
Crystal Mountain Conditions Report: Spring is Finally Here. Spring is here and one thing for sure, variability. Its been everything from frigid cold to tshirt weather. We had it all from days of blower pow on crust, pow under crust, “loud pow”,pow around chunder, bottomless pow with 20′ viability and everyone’s favorite hot pow! Many days end completely different from how they started so it paid to be […] Conditions Report Reid Pitman | April 11, 2018 0 Comments
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