SAM Magazine—Mt. Hood, Ore., Dec. 12, 2014—Mt. Hood Meadows has named Jake Bolland as the company’s chief operating officer as part of a sweeping administrative reorganization. Bolland will oversee the day-to-day operations of Mt. Hood Meadows and Cooper Spur Mt. Resort, working with the leadership team to develop the strategic...

SAM Magazine—Wrightwood, Calif., Dec. 11, 2014—The Powder Alliance has officially launched the 2014-15 Wild West Powder Quest, a visit-based sweepstakes designed to encourage skiers and snowboarders to explore and uncover the best powder stashes at all 13 participating areas. Those areas include California’s China Peak, Mountain H...

SAM Magazine—Crystal Mountain, Wash., Dec. 10, 2014—Crystal Mountain took delivery of the first two diesel electric PistenBully 600 E+ snowgroomers in North America yesterday. The 600 E+ uses a new diesel electric drive that significantly lowers environmental and economic impacts while it enhances performance capabilities, according to ...

SAM Magazine—Carrabassett Valley, Maine, Dec. 9, 2014—Karl Strand will succeed John Diller as the resort’s president and general manager after Diller retires in April, 2015. In the interim, Diller remains in charge at Sugarloaf, and Strand, currently vice president of mountain operations at Sunday River, will remain in that positi...

SAM Magazine—Broomfield, Colo., Dec. 8, 2014—Vail Resorts will make more than $50 million worth of upgrades to Park City Mountain Resort (PCMR) for the 2015-16 ski season. The plan will connect PCMR and Canyons resort and create a single ski area with more than 7,300 acres of skiable terrain. Topping the makeover is an eight-passenge...

SAM Magazine–Park City, Utah, Dec. 8, 2014—The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Teams picked up this past weekend where they left off last season: with multiple medalists on the podium. Lindsey Vonn won her 60th Audi FIS Ski World Cup, capping a first-ever U.S. Ski Team podium sweep, in a downhill at Lake Louise, Alberta. Vonn pulled out the w...

SAM Magazine—Thompsonville, Mich., Dec. 8, 2014—Crystal Mountain is the first location in northern Michigan designated as a Tesla Driving Destination Partner, in which the electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer establishes complimentary charging stations for its customers. The new high-power connectors provided by Tesla offer more than t...

SAM Magazine—Truckee, Calif., Dec. 5, 2014—The continued front of winter storms passing through California’s Lake Tahoe region has brought more than three feet of snow to higher elevations some ski areas, enabling resorts in the Sierra expand their open terrain or in some cases open for the season. Up to a foot of additional snow ...

SAM Magazine—Wildwood, Mo., Dec. 1, 2014—Peak Resorts, Inc., operator of 13 ski resorts located primarily in the Northeast and Midwest, 12 of which are company-owned, has closed its initial public offering of 10,000,000 shares of common stock at a public price of $9 per share. At today’s close the shares were trading at $8.59. All...

SAM Magazine—Woodbury, Conn., Nov. 21, 2014—After six successful camps at Carinthia, Mount Snow, Cutter's Camp will change the venue of its eastern location to Loon Mountain Resort, N.H., April 12-14, 2015. The western camp will remain at Timberline, Mt. Hood, Ore., May 11-15.

SAM Magazine—Denver, Nov. 21, 2014—Intrawest Resorts Holdings, Inc. has named Thomas F. Marano as the company’s chief executive officer, effective immediately. Marano will also serve on the company’s board of directors. Additionally, Intrawest has promoted Sky Foulkes, President of Stratton Mountain Resort, to the position o...

SAM Magazine—Denver, Nov. 20, 2014—With cold and snow sweeping through much of the Rockies and the eastern half of the country, resorts there are opening ahead of schedule and with more terrain than usual. Nationwide, there were nearly 50 resorts open today, with more than 80 ski areas nationwide open this weekend. Meanwhile, snow re...

SAM Magazine—Denver, Nov. 17, 2014—Despite mild October temperatures, lodging reservations for the six-month winter season (November through April) are currently running ahead of the same time last season. Denver-based DestiMetrics, an organization that tracks mountain lodging bookings in 19 Western mountain resorts in six states, said ...

SAM Magazine—Salt Lake City, Utah, Nov. 14, 2014—Steamboat Ski & Resort Corporation and Visit Salt Lake have settled the litigation involving Steamboat’s Ski Town, U.S.A. trademark and Visit Salt Lake’s Ski City USA marketing campaign. The upshot: Visit Salt Lake has agreed to revise its campaign in a manner that is acce...

SAM Magazine—Woodbury, Conn., Nov. 13, 2014—A strong cold front that continues to sweep through most of the country this week blanketed some ski areas with nearly two feet of fresh snow, allowing snowmaking crews to piggyback off of Mother Nature’s graces as they work to open for the 2014-15 season. The National Weather Service...