by Dan Giesin | Sep 15, 2022 | Beginner, Blog, Expert, Intermediate, Ski Industry News
There’s an old saying that there’s only two season’s in ski country: Winter and Construction. Well, it’s been a busy latter season for mountain resorts throughout the United States this summer as ski areas played catch-up from pandemic-related work deferrals to...
by Dan Giesin | Mar 29, 2022 | Beginner, Blog, Expert, Intermediate, Ski Industry News
Apres ski. Are there two more collegial words in the French-English lexicon? Just the very notion of the phrase — particularly in the spring — conjures up an idyllic state of relaxing after a enjoyable day on the slopes by lazing in the afternoon in the sun, kicking...
by Dan Giesin | Mar 22, 2022 | Beginner, Blog, Expert, Intermediate, Ski Industry News
It’s baaack! That annual ritual to goofiness, a.k.a. spring shenanigans, has risen from its COVID-19 enforced hiatus and is resurfacing at many ski resorts across the continent. From pond skims to music festivals, from slush bumps to retro costume contests, skiers and...
by Dan Giesin | Mar 8, 2022 | Blog, Expert, Intermediate, Ski Industry News
It is often said that nothing worth having is easy to come by. That aphorism works well in the ski resort world as well, where some of the sweetest goods are available only after you make a sometimes agonizing, often post-holing slog up a ridge. In other words: You’ve...
by Dan Giesin | Mar 1, 2022 | Beginner, Blog, Expert, Intermediate, Ski Industry News
A new lift is always an occasion for excitement and anticipation among skiers and snowboarders as they bring the promise of the opening of new terrain or a quicker, more efficient way of getting to existing terrain. And sometimes a new lift can change the whole...
by Dan Giesin | Feb 22, 2022 | Beginner, Blog, Expert, Intermediate, Ski Industry News
Do you remember the first time you really played in the snow? The sheer joy of ascending a hill, jumping on a sled or inner tube, racing back down the slope — often in bumping and tumbling manner — and laughing and screeching the entire way? And repeating the process...
