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July 24, 2006 Bucks County Resort War In The Poconos?There's a new player in the Poconos and a lot of people - conservationists, politicians, and Blue Mountain Ski Area - can't wait to see what they have up their sleeve. ...continue reading »The Party Rolls On In The Catskills Possums Play Hole Card At Hotham
The WWF brought plans to build a $500 million, architecturally resplendent luxury ski village on Victoria's Mount Hotham to a screeching - if temporary halt - after announcing that the Bale Mount Hotham complex would impact a colony of wide-eyed Mountain Pygmy Possums.
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Montage Gets $14 Million TransfusionA group of investors from the Philadelphia area have agreed to purchase Montage Ski Resort from Lackawanna County and pump a minimum of $14 million of improvements into the popular but tired Pennsylvania area over the next five years.
But the deal came together so smoothly and quickly that one potential suitor felt jilted.
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Travel, Ski Industries Turn To Interactive MediaThe medium is the message, alright, and these days that medium is the Internet.Quote Of The WeekMount Crescent ski area in Iowa is up for sale and owner Russell Lindeman spoke with forthright Midwestern acuity when he summed up his reason for selling after 32 years of operation: ...continue reading »July 14, 2006 ASC Weighs Possible Sale Of Steamboat
"We felt it was prudent at this time that we take a look at Steamboat," Chip Carey, ASC's Senior Vice President of Marketing and Sales, said Friday. "It is fairly plain to see that Steamboat has seen a tremendous increase in its value and we need to evaluate that. We're looking at all options."
Carey said "there are no buyers at the door" but that ASC's Board of Directors have retained investment advisors to initiate a "strategic review of business options" for the resort - including its sale.
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July 11, 2006 Greek Peak Bets Wetter Is Better
The project includes a hotel and indoor water park, the first for any of New York state's ski resorts.
New York has the most ski and snowboard areas in the nation - more than 50 - that annually attract upwards of 4 million riders. Some of those resorts have names as formidable as the Olympics peaks Whiteface Mountain and Gore Mountain in the Adirondacks.
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July 10, 2006 Instructors Today Need Business Savvy - Dorsey
That's why the emergence of longtime association soldier Mark Dorsey as the new executive director of ASEA's two components - Professional Ski Instructors of America (PSIA) and the American Association of Snowboard Instructors (AASI) - is likely to sit well with the rather complicated organization's members and mountain resort operators. Dorsey, a 17-year employee, replaces Steve Over this month, who retired after 16 years on the job.
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Jay Peak's Stenger vs. Border Speed TrapPeople making the drive to Vermont's Jay Peak like to get there in a hurry.So much of a hurry, it seems, that they frequently blow through leafy North Troy - a smallish hamlet on the Canadian border - at 50 miles per hour or more.
The people of North Troy, all 650 of them, grew tired of the speeders. They hired an aggressive police chief to slow them down and he is good at his job.
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Stratton Co-Founder Frank Snyder Dies He was 84.
Frank was an avid sportsman. He's best known among Vermonters for his important role in
founding Stratton Mountain in 1961. Moore & Munger, founded by his father, owned Stratton for many years (M&M invented wax paper).
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John Elvrum - "Mr. Snow Valley" - Dead At 97John Anderson Elvrum borrowed money from his father-in-law to buy the lease for a place known to locals living in the San Bernardino Mountains as "Fish Camp," re-named it "Snow Valley" and taught thousands of Southern Californians about the sport he loved.Elvrum, a champion ski jumper and 10th Mountain Division trooper during World War II, promoted skiing by giving area children free passes to Snow Valley during the 30 years he operated the resort, an endeavor he undertook so tirelessly he quickly became known as "Mr. Snow Valley."
Elvrum died July 4 at a Calimesa nursing home. He was 97.
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