Ski Resorts
Top Ten Summer Ski Resorts
Aaaaand we’re back. Steve and are were both out of town the entire week, so posting was non-existent. One of the first interesting tidbits I came across upon my return was OnTheSnow.com’s Top Ten Summer Ski Resorts. The spread of resorts is pretty global, but I think the bottom line is fairly straightforward: if you’re [...]
Ski Resort Web Videos: Our Take
Whether it’s a “vlog” or “video report” or straight-up video, ski resorts are slowly adding video content to their websites. As they do so, each resort adds their own little twist and style - with mixed results. Here are some of the ones we checked out recently.
The Canyons’ YouTube Channel
Utah’s largest ski and snowboard resort [...]
China Gets in on the Ski Resort Action
Recently The Globe and Mail ran a piece on the growth of ski resorts in China. So did Frequency, the quarterly snowboarder’s journal. The story in the Globe is more focused on the development of the real estate market as it relates to ski areas; Frequency’s story is much more about improvements within the resorts [...]
Kadenwood: The Other Whistler Blackcomb Gondola
Much has been made about the new Peak-to-Peak gondola currently under construction in Whistler. The gondola, which is scheduled to be completed later this year, will link the tops of Whistler and Blackcomb mountains.
One project that hasn’t made too many headlines, though, is Whistler’s other planned gondola, which will connect Whistler Creekside with Kadenwood, an [...]
Blue Mountain Ski Resort: From the “I Didn’t Know That” Department
Some interesting stuff I discovered while looking around for some post content this week:
There is a ski resort in Ontario that’s taller than Blue Mountain and big enough to host an FIS-sanctioned Giant Slalom Race: The Georgian Peaks Ski Club. With a vertical of 820 feet, Georgian Peaks is Ontario’s highest and longest hill. The [...]
Ontario’s Blue Mountain Bounces Back
You might recall that last winter was the worst (read: warmest and least snowiest) the Toronto area had seen in years. Many resorts like Blue Mountain were forced to lay off their staff during the much-needed holiday season because, well, warm temperatures forced them all to stay closed. Blue mountain alone was forced to temporarily [...]
Strange Headlines from the Ski Resort World
In the category of “things you don’t see every day” ..
Ski resort wants to borrow Army howitzer to trigger small avalanches
Ski resort manager accused of stealing electricity
Ski resorts say: ‘watch your drinking’
“Snowboarding is Cool. And You Can’t Fight That.”
The Denver Post took a look yesterday at Taos’ decision to welcome snowboarders, and the article reveals it was largely - no wait, it was entirely - economics. Among the factoids revealed in the article:
The resort is aiming to average 265,000 visits a year, a goal easily attained in the 1990s, when the resort attracted [...]
Hell Has Frozen Over: Taos Now Open To Shredders
So now there’s officially three. Taos joined the ranks of the sensible today, formally welcoming snowboarders to their ski resort. They called it the day “Hell Freezes Over”. Too bad they did it so late in the season.
With Taos letting in snowboarders, there are only three major resorts left in the United States that don’t.
