SAM Magazine – Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy, Jan. 19, 2015 –– Lindsey Vonn put down a near flawless super G run Monday to win her 63rd Audi FIS Ski World Cup and etch her name into the record books as the winningest women's World Cup racer ever. Skiing at the end of the top seed in the 22nd start position, Vonn took command ...

SAM Magazine—Cortina D’Ampezzo, Italy, Jan. 18, 2015—Lindsey Vonn captured her 62nd career World Cup win, tying a 35-year record that many race experts have thought was unbeatable, during the Audi FIS downhill in Cortina. Vonn won the race by .32 seconds over Austria's Elisabeth Goergl, and in doing so, ties the record of 62 w...

SAM Magazine—Steamboat Springs, Colo., Jan. 17, 2015—Chris Diamond, president and COO of Steamboat Ski and Resort Corporation, will retire June 30, 2015. During his 15-year tenure, Steamboat has greatly expanded its snowmaking capabilities, added night skiing, constructed the Four Points Lodge, and completed numerous lift upgrades an...

SAM Magazine—Mount Washington, B.C., Jan. 16, 2015—Mount Washington—the Canadian one, not the New Hampshire one—was today’s new-snow winner with 11 inches as ski areas across North America prepare for the Martin Luther King Holiday, one of the busiest periods of the season. Snow also blanketed ski areas in the Pacif...

SAM Magazine—Denver, Colo., Jan. 16, 2015—Revenues at 19 mountain resorts in six states are up 15 percent over last season while occupancy is up 9 percent, according to Denver-based DestiMetrics. The data reflect aggregated occupancy based on reservations already made through April. Revenue and occupancy have experienced gains every ...

SAM Magazine—Oliver, B.C., Jan. 16, 2015—Mount Baldy ski area re-opened 500 acres to skiers and riders this season after scrapping operations last season. The Baldy Capital Corporation, based in Calgary, has arranged interim financing along with a Memorandum of Understanding to purchase the resort.The plan is to open Fridays through Sun...

SAM Magazine—Baar/Straubing, Germany, Jan. 9, 2015—Marker Völkl has entered into a purchase agreement to acquire the Dalbello Group, a family-owned Italian company that has been making ski boots since 1974. “Dalbello has many of the same attractive business characteristics as Marker Völkl, including a leading market p...

SAM Magazine—Wildwood, Mo., Jan. 9, 2015—Peak Resorts noted in its latest earnings report that total skier and snowboarder visits in November and December, the first two months of its third quarter, were behind the five-year average due to late openings at the company’s Midwest ski areas. Tim Boyd, Peak president and COO, said ...

SAM Magazine—Monarch Mountain, Colo., Jan. 7, 2015—A 15-year-old male was arrested yesterday by the Chaffee County Sheriff's Office on charges stemming from two recent attempted sexual assaults on teenage girls at Monarch ski area. On Jan. 2, the sheriff’s office said it was seeking a male suspect who rode the lift with the...

SAM Magazine—Zagreb, Croatia, Jan. 7, 2015—Seven American men ski racers wore black armbands and tape on their helmets in the Audi FIS Ski World Cup night slalom to honor Ronnie Berlack, Franconia, N.H. and Burke Mountain, Vt., and Bryce Astle, Sandy, Utah—two teammates killed in an avalanche Monday. Prior to the race, the race or...

SAM Magazine—Soelden, Austria, Jan. 5, 2015—The U.S. Ski Team is mourning the loss of two promising development-level ski racers killed Monday in an avalanche in Soelden. The two were among a group of six athletes freeskiing at the Austrian resort. The other four skied out of the slide. Killed in the avalanche were Ronnie Berlack, 20...

SAM Magazine—McLean, Va., Jan. 5, 2015—This month marks the seventh year of Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month, and several states, including Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah and Vermont, are promoting statewide discounted beginner lesson packages. A few associations have recruited partne...

SAM Magazine—Sun Valley, Idaho, Dec. 22, 2014—Temperature, more than precipitation, has factored heavily thus far into the 2014-15 season. Resorts in the Rockies are celebrating up to two feet of new snow in the past two days, while rain has hampered the start of the season in other regions. Ski areas in Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming a...

SAM Magazine—Lakewood, Colo., Dec. 22, 2014—The National Ski Patrol (NSP) has elected five directors to its board of directors, including former board member Keith Cassidy, a patroller at Wintergreen, Va. Others include Rick Knight, of Mount Southington, Conn., Ken Kramer, of Winter Park, Colo., Chris Pringle, of Bradford Ski Area, Mass...

SAM Magazine—Denver, Dec. 18, 2014—A town hall-style roundtable featuring insights from Bill Jensen, former CEO of Intrawest, Harry Frampton, managing partner of East West Partners, and Steve Rice, senior vice president and senior managing director of the CNL Financial Group tops the bill for The Assembly 2015. Now in its third year, Th...