by Dan Giesin | Dec 24, 2019 | Beginner, Blog, Ski Industry News
Looking for some last-minute holiday shopping tips? How about giving the gift of skiing and/or snowboarding? For a very low price, you can introduce a never-ever to the sport during January, which has become semi-officially Learn to Ski or Snowboard Month. Many...
by Dan Giesin | Dec 17, 2019 | Blog, Ski Industry News
Glossary of Ski Terms – A to Z Every sport has its jargon, and skiing and snowboarding are rife with it. Many of these words are self-explanatory, but some have hidden — arcane, even cryptic — meanings. The following is one person’s take on some of these words’...
by Dan Giesin | Dec 10, 2019 | Beginner, Blog, Expert, Intermediate, Ski Industry News, Ski Resort Marketing
Lift rides: Some take forever, and some only seem that way. Having to be hauled up a mountain by a chairlift is one of the banes of our sport. You’re jonesing to hit that powder stash only you know about but the Jerrys keep causing the lift to stop or the resort has...
by Dan Giesin | Dec 3, 2019 | Blog, Ski Industry News
None of us popped into this world being full-fledged skiing or snowboarding fanatics. We all needed someone or something to show us the way to the slopes, especially when we were young. But what about those kids who have neither the means nor the opportunity to get...
by Dan Giesin | Nov 26, 2019 | Beginner, Blog, Expert, Intermediate, Ski Industry News, Ski Resort Marketing
Thanksgiving Day is fast approaching, and you what that means — it’s time to break out the boards. And this year, Mother Nature is cooperating in big way to ensure that you work up an appetite for the 2019-20 skiing and snowboarding season. Already more than 70...