by Dan Giesin | Sep 5, 2017 | Ski Industry News
You can never get too much of a good thing, right? But if your idea of a good thing is making turns on your skis and/or snowboard, the months between April and December is hardly a period of good times. After the snow is gone, it’s simply rocks, brush and weeds...
by Dan Giesin | May 10, 2017 | Ski Industry News
The winter that seemed never-ending in the Sierra isn’t going away soon at Squaw Valley. The site of the 1960 Winter Olympic Games, which received more than 714 inches of snow between October and May, announced recently that will it stay open as long as...
by Dan Giesin | Apr 18, 2017 | Ski Industry News
T.S. Eliot famously referred to April as the cruelest month, and though the old poet wasn’t much of an outdoorsman, skiers and snowboarders across the land can feel his pain. For this is the month that generally signals the end of another season of riding and...
by Dan Giesin | Apr 11, 2017 | Ski Industry News
Of all the tantalizing and iconic lines at Squaw Valley — Tram Face, Eagle’s Nest, the Palisades — perhaps one of the most coveted is National Geographic bowl. Overhung by an massive cornice, made famous by a photograph in National Geographic...
by Dan Giesin | Apr 4, 2017 | Ski Industry News
Although the storm trackers say winter isn’t quite over for the mountains of the West, the calendar says it’s spring. And that means it’s time to ditch the puffies, don the SPF 50 and party on — and off — the piste. Few places can put on...
