SAM Magazine--July 15, 2010--Last night, July 14, ESPN presented its annual ESPY awards, honoring athletes across all sports, and skiing and snowboarding came out on top. Out of 35 awards chosen by the viewers, winter sports took home five: Best Female Athlete: Lindsey Vonn Best Male Action Sport Athlete: Shaun White Best Female Action Sport...

SAM Magazine-Crested Butte, Colo., July 15, 2010-Gloria Manning, reviewing officer for U.S. Forest Service Chief Tom Tidwell, yesterday upheld two earlier decisions to reject a proposal by Crested Butte Mountain Resort (CBMR) to develop lift-served skiing on Snodgrass Mountain. The decision is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's final administrati...

SAM Magazine-Rangeley, Maine, July 15, 2010-Saddleback, Maine, is offering a limited number of its new Decade Passes as part of its 50th anniversary celebration this upcoming season. The Decade Pass ($5,000) will provide unlimited skiing and riding for ten consecutive years. Only 50 passes will be available. "Saddleback is excited to offer this ...

SAM Magazine-New Westminster, British Columbia-In response to the failure of a lift tower of Blackcomb's Excalibur Gondola in December 2008 due to ice jacking, the B.C. Safety Authority (BCSA) has issued new regulations intended to avoid a repeat incident. They are: 1. All operators of passenger ropeway installations must assure towers are fitte...

SAM Magazine-Durango, Colo., July 14, 2010- Tori Ossola, former VP of marketing for the Vermont Ski Areas Association, has been named managing director for Snow Monsters and NextSnow, the national ski and snowboard programs for kids with more than 100 affiliate resorts and industry members. "We have spent months redesigning both Snow Monsters an...

SAM Magazine--July 13, 2010--Nancy Cushing, retiring CEO of Squaw Valley Ski Corporation, Calif., announced the appointment of Andrew (Andy) D. Wirth to the position of CEO at Squaw Valley USA. Wirth will be responsible for all aspects of resort operations at Squaw Valley USA, and he will report directly to the Board of Directors at Squaw Valley Sk...

SAM Magazine-Snowmass Village, Colo., July 12, 2010- On Friday, July 9, District Judge Gail Nichols put the Base Village project at Snowmass into receivership. The move, effective today, July 12, transfers operational control from the Related Companies of New York to Destination Snowmass Services, Inc., a subsidiary of Lowe Enterprises of Los Angel...

SAM Magazine-Laramie, Wyo., July 12, 2010-Aaron and Becky Maddox are buying the Snowy Range Ski Area, which has been owned and operated by the First National Bank for the past two seasons. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The husband and wife team are longtime skiers but new to the resort business. However, Aaron grew up in Steamboat, and p...

SAM Magazine-Baker City, Ore., July 12, 2010-The owners of Ski Anthony Lakes Mountain Resort have offered the assets of the ski area to the county government, including the rest of its 30-year Forest Service lease, the Baker City Herald reports. Skiers and businesses that rely on winter visitors back the idea. So does County Commission Chairman ...

SAM Magazine-Lakewood, Colo., July 8, 2010-Learn to Ski and Snowboard Month in January 2011 will have a new graphic look and messaging this season. The campaign is built around the theme, "Humans were never meant to hibernate." The ad campaign reaches out to current participants to "bring a friend" to try skiing and snowboarding, and encourages nev...

SAM Magazine--July, 7, 2010--The Burlington Free Press reported that a Vermont federal judge says Powdr Corp., the owner of Killington ski resort, doesn't have to honor 1,243 lifetime ski passes first issued to people who invested in the ski area almost 50 years ago ago. Powdr Corp. and SP Land Co. bought Killington in 2007 and announced the dec...

SAM Magazine-Angel Fire, N.M., July 6, 2010-Angel Fire Resort has named John Kitts CEO, effective July 23. He will oversee Angel Fire's five principal businesses-operations, membership, timeshare, resort development and real estate sales. Kitts had been the resort's CFO for the past two years. Kitts succeeds Pat Brunstad, who had been CEO and di...

SAM Magazine-Vienna, Austria, July 6, 2010-The Organisation Internationale Des Transports a Cables (OITAF) will hold its tenth worldwide congress Oct. 24-27 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in conjunction with Companhia Caminho Aéreo Pão de Açúcar, which operates two reversible cableways in the city. OITAF has also issued its call for pape...

SAM Magazine-Park City, Utah, July 1, 2010-Jenni Smith has been appointed president and general manager of Park City Mountain Resort (PCMR) by parent company Powdr Corp. Most recently, Smith served as vice president of resort administration and development at PCMR. She replaces Peter Curtis, president and GM since 2004, who is retiring. Smith's new...

SAM Magazine-Cannonsburg, Mich., July 1, 2010-The Brown family, which has owned and operated Cannonsburg Ski Area for more than three decades, has sold the resort to James Wynn, an attorney in Petoskey. The sale also includes Arnold Transportation, a ferry boat company operating out of Mackinaw City. Both Cannonsburg and Arnold Transportation have ...