by Dan Giesin | Feb 21, 2017 | Ski Industry News
For much of its history, Truckee was a vibrant railroad and lumber hub, serving as the jumping off point for train passengers heading to Lake Tahoe and supplying the timber to help build the intermountain west. But the interstate freeway, which passes through town,...
by Dan Giesin | Feb 15, 2017 | Ski Industry News
You can’t get any more New England than taking a trip down Vermont Route 100. For nearly 220 miles, from Quebec to Connecticut, Route 100, a.k.a. Vermont’s “Main Street”, is a two-lane jaunt through quaint towns and villages, passing such...
by Dan Giesin | Feb 8, 2017 | Ski Industry News
Ever since railroad tycoon Averell Harriman decided to plunk down a resort near one of his railheads in Ketchum, Idaho, in 1936, Sun Valley has been practically synonymous with Americans’ picture of a glamorous winter sports mecca. For more than 80 years, the...
by Dan Giesin | Feb 2, 2017 | Ski Industry News
Remember Phil Connors, the Bill Murray character who was fated to repeat the same day over and over again in the movie “Groundhog Day”? What if we were all Phil Connors, but instead of continually reliving the same 24-hour period we had to ride the same...
by Dan Giesin | Jan 30, 2017 | Ski Industry News
When most people think about skiing in Idaho, their thoughts usually settle on one big, upscale resort in the central part of the state. But Idaho skiing is much more than Sun Valley, and there are three resorts within a two-hour drive of Boise — Bogus Basin,...
