Aspen, CO – The Mountain Collective pass is again available for sale, this time with two new Southern Hemisphere ski resorts added to the mix. Coronet Peak and The Remarkables in Queenstown, New Zealand have joined The Mountain Collective as a full partner for the 2016-2017 season. This addition expands the breadth of the Collective with full … Continue reading Mountain Collective Adds New Zealand Ski Resorts
Originally published: 12:16 p.m. MST February 1, 2016 Updated: 7:10 p.m. MST February 1, 2016 Fairfield, ID – A teenage girl from Twin Falls, Idaho died in an accident at Soldier Mountain ski area in Fairfield on Saturday. (file photo: Soldier Mountain) Taylor … Continue Reading ››
San Francisco, CA – Before this season started, we told you about a new drone video service partnering with ski resorts across the U.S. Now the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted an amendment to Cape Productions’ existing Section 333 exemption for commercial drone operations in the U.S., making the company the first operator in the country authorized … … Continue reading Ski Resort Partner Granted Permission from the FAA for Drone Video Service
Sun Valley, ID – The Your Turn Women’s Ski Event will be happening on Jan. 21 on Bald Mountain at Idaho’s Sun Valley Resort. The event is organized and led by former U.S. Ski Team member, Lisa Densmore Ballard, who will be joined by Sun Valley’s top female instructors to teach women who … Continue Reading ››
Sula, MT – The body of Bart Allan Pickard, who has been missing since he was last seen skiing at Lost Trail Ski Area straddling the Idaho/Montana border on Dec. 22, was discovered on Saturday. The body of Pickard, a 65-year-old long-time Lost Trail season passholder from nearby Corvallis, Mont., was found a few feet off … Continue reading Body of Missing Lost Trail Skier Found
Jackson, WY – Mountain Rider’s Alliance (MRA) has launched its latest initiative, the Mountain Playground Group, designed to assist community and independent ski areas to be more viable. The consortium of geographically diversified, like-minded ski areas will band together to reduce expenses while increasing efficiencies and profits. “Our organization has been studying the challenges facing smaller … Continue reading Independent Ski Areas Form Marketing Alliance
Washington, DC – In the arid western U.S., water rights are a valuable commodity often fought over by competing interests. So in 2011, when the U.S. Forest Service sought to transfer the water rights of ski resorts operating on Forest Service land to the federal government, the agency encountered a ferocious backlash from the ski industry … Continue reading Forest Service Abandons Plan to Take Ski Areas’ Water Rights
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