by Jack McNary | Mar 14, 2023 | Blog, Ski Resort Marketing, Top 10 Best Snow
About 10 hours south of Denver, striated cliff bands welcome you as you make your way up through the town of Durango to Purgatory Mountain Resort. The name of the resort is certainly a misnomer – Purgatory appears to be anything but! Protected by its remote location,...
by Dan Giesin | Mar 8, 2023 | Beginner, Blog, Expert, Intermediate, Ski Industry News
Skiing has been around for quite some time — there are cave paintings of our Ice Age forebears chasing game on wooden slats — but it’s only been in the last century or so that the activity morphed from a mundane, generally pastoral and/or hunting activity into an...
by Dan Giesin | Feb 28, 2023 | Beginner, Blog, Expert, Intermediate, Ski Industry News
No matter where you are in snow country, the winter of 2022-23 has been something of a challenge: Too much snow out West, too little back East, and too much down time because of that. So I say it’s high time we bid Old Man Winter adieu — for better or for worse — and...
by Dan Giesin | Feb 22, 2023 | Beginner, Blog, Expert, Intermediate, Ski Industry News
We’re just going to throw it right out there: Reno can make a great case for itself as being the best base camp in North America for skiers and snowboarders. Tucked up against the east side of the northern Sierra Nevada range and inside an hour’s drive away from that...
by Dan Giesin | Feb 7, 2023 | Beginner, Blog, Expert, Intermediate, Ski Industry News
More than the hills are alive with the sound of music. The mall. The local burger joint. The corner boutique. Everywhere seems to be wired for sound. You just can’t escape the omnipresent buzz of classic rock or the screech of Auto-Tuned divas of either gender. Even...
by Dan Giesin | Jan 31, 2023 | Beginner, Blog, Expert, Intermediate, Ski Industry News
Jackson Hole. The name itself should bring shivers of anticipation to any seasoned skier or snowboarder in North America. Where else can you find a several seasons’ worth of steeps, chutes, couloirs, glades and seemingly boundless snowfields — 4,139 vertical feet of...