The owner of White Pass can claim that Vail (or Alterra) doesn't want to buy White Pass all they want, but I don't believe it. It's just posturing so...

I totally understand why Alterra and Vail each desperately wanted to acquire a Seattle area ski resort. There's 4 million people in Seattle metro,...

Bacherlor, Big Sky, and Sun Valley are all legitimate destination resorts. Crystal and Stevens are not, and never will be no matter how hard Alterra...

He bought it from his Dad. Is that really buying it? Alterra and Vail would love to buy all these ski areas but they can't if the current owners...

I completely agree. Have you seen Alterra's plans for Palisades in California? Rip out all the parking to build hotel, condo, timeshares, along with...

Then why doesn't Baker sell to Vail? Why doesn't White Pass sell to Alterra? Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming are all devoid of Alterra and...

Ok Brit, why did he decide to sell to Alterra? To me, when you own something like a ski resort, or a professional sports team, you owe it to the...

True, but the Sonics can easily be replaced with an expansion team where as Crystal cannot. Maybe his health problems played into his decision to...

He'll forever be remembered as the Howard Schultz of the PNW ski world. Both were not from the PNW, had oogles of money but chose to sell something...

Because they are lazy. They probably figured skiing from that low spot saddle was the safest spot, or best snow, so if they went up the ridge, they...

Curious why you say tire maintenance is reduced? Aren't electric cars heavier, or just as heavy as ICE counterpart? Wouldn't weight be the primary...

In my view, what some view as "insane flooding and mudslides" is actually completely normal and just a result of humans inhabiting lands that have...

Bunion posted this about Kircher: https://www.explorebigsky.com/a-ski-industry-visionary-john-kircher-dies-at-64/47590

Terrible. I think we all have stopped in what we thought were safe zones that were not actually 100% safe. Safe 999 times out of a thousand....

This is why I chose to live West of the Cascades. We don't really get a PWL here, even in funky years like this one. The only sketchy incident I've...

I was up on the Chair Peak shoulder in April 14 and noticed two skiers climbing up, and then skiing down that line. Turned out to be Drew Trabke, who...

My friends were roadies for Warren Miller tour in 2002. Another worked in corporate. I helped out stuffing swag boxes a few occasions. No one had...