Denver, CO – The M.A.X. Pass keeps growing. New for the 2017-2018 ski and snowboard season, The M.A.X. Pass now includes access to 44 resorts in North America on a single multi-mountain pass by adding six new ski resorts next winter: Windham, Belleayre, Gore and Whiteface Mountains in New York, Lutsen in Minnesota and Granite Peak in Wisconsin. … Continue reading The M.A.X. Pass Adds Six New Resorts
Girdwood, AK – Chugach Powder Guides (CPG) will begin cat skiing operations tomorrow at Alyeska Resort. This is the first time in three years that lower valley snow in Girdwood has been sufficiently deep to construct a cat road to access the cat skiing terrain near Alyeska. Construction of the cat road requires a minimum snow … Continue reading Cat Skiing Returns to Alyeska After Three-Year Absence
Girdwood, AK – Brian Burnett has been named as the new Ski Area General Manager at Alyeska Resort in Alaska. Burnett, who has worked at Alyeska Resort for almost a decade, is a life-long Alaskan and has skied Alyeska since “before the earthquake”. His promotion to Ski Area General Manager comes after serving for seven years … Continue reading New GM to Run Alyeska
Denver, CO – It’s only been three weeks since we told you about 10 more ski areas added to the multi-resort M.A.X. pass for 2016-17. Scratch that, you can now call it 16 more resorts, for a total of 38. Resorts of the Canadian Rockies (RCR) has now come on board with the program. Despite … Continue reading The M.A.X. Pass Adds Six More Resorts
Denver, CO – Purchasers of the M.A.X. Pass now have even more resort options to explore. The pass originally created by Intrawest, Powdr and Boyne Resorts has 10 new partner resorts joining for the 2016-17 ski and snowboard season. New this fall, the M.A.X. Pass announced Crested Butte and Eldora Mountain Resorts in Colorado, Mountain High Resort in California, Okemo Resort … Continue reading The M.A.X. Pass Adds 10 Resorts for the 2016-17 Season
Palmer, AK – Warren Carlyle, 25, of Anchorage died on Saturday after being buried by an avalanche off the Hatcher Pass Road north of Palmer. Alaska State Troopers were notified of the incident at around 2:15 p.m. Saturday. A witness observed one snowboarder buried in the slide, which occurred just east of the Summit Lake area. … Continue reading Snowboarder Dies in Alaska Avalanche
Ophir, CO – Two brothers skiing in the backcountry south of Telluride, Colo., survived two separate avalanches last Wednesday. Alex and Brian Holmes, both residents of Ophir and ages 27 and 26, respectively, were skiing from Trout Lake to Ophir and had begun their descent into the north-facing, above-treeline Fatwa Couloir area of Waterfall Canyon … Continue reading Brothers Survive Two Separate Avalanches in Telluride Backcountry
