SAM Magazine - North Woodstock, NH, January 26, 2008--With a rich history of environmental initiatives (Cranmore was the first ski area east of the Mississippi to convert to biodiesel in 2003), New Hampshire ski areas are strengthening their environmental initiatives as part of a broad effort to reduce their footprints on the planet over the next f...

SAM Magazine-Denver, Jan. 18, 2008-Colorado Ski Country USA's 26 member resorts hosted an estimated 2,873,363 visitors from Oct. 10 through Dec. 31, about average for the state but down 12.5 percent from last year's record for the period. Low snowfall totals in November caused several resorts to delay their opening dates, and got skier visits off t...

SAM Magazine-McLean, Va., Jan. 18, 2008-August to November snow sports sales reached $897 million, an increase of 2 percent over last season's anemic early season sales, reversing a 7 percent drop for the August to October period-even though the heavy snow hadn't started falling yet. "December snow promises relief," said Kelly Davis, director of re...

SAM Magazine-Minturn, Colo., Jan. 18, 2008-The Ginn Development Company, which is planning a private ski area above the towns of Minturn and Red Cliff, near Vail, has been promoting the benefits of the resort to local politicos. In a recent Minturn town council meeting, Bill Weber, senior vice president of the company, said that the ski resort w...

SAM, Jan. Woodbury, CT--SAM and SIA Host Special Market Exhibits Exclusively for Rental, Backshop And Uniform Buyers In three exclusive Market Segment Exhibits presented by SAM Magazine and SIA, including Rental World, Backshop Garage and Uniform Center find all the latest rental gear, uniform designs and backshop machines and tools displayed ...

SAM Magazine-Mt. Hood, Ore., Jan. 14, 2008-Mt. Hood Meadows has named Tom Spangler, currently Jackson Hole COO, to become general manager at Mt. Hood Meadows. His appointment culminates a six-month selection process, in which more than 50 candidates were considered. Spangler will begin his new position in late February. Spangler has been at Jack...

SAM Magazine-Chicago, Jan.11, 2008-Wells Fargo Insurance Services, Inc., has acquired Dover, N.H.-based The Richardson Group. The acquisition closed Dec. 1, 2007; terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The third largest provider of ski resort insurance in the U.S., The Richardson Group specializes in sports, entertainment and health club ...

SAM Magazine-Denver, Jan. 11, 2008-Winter Park Resort is teaming with the city of Denver and the Denver Parks and Recreation Department for the second straight year to create the Ruby Hill Rail Yard, a free urban ski and ride terrain park located just outside of downtown Denver in Ruby Hill Park. Ruby Hill features six rails of varying configuratio...

SAM Magazine - Arapahoe Basin, Co., January 9, 2008 - One of Colorado's smallest ski areas is poised to nearly double in size with the opening of Arapahoe Basin's Montezuma Bowl on January 11. The expansion will increase the ski area's terrain by 80 percent, with an additional 400 acres. The expansion is the largest in the nation for the 2007-2008 ...

SnowHunter--UK, January 9, 2008-- A new study commissioned by travel insurance company InsureandGo has found that 11% of people have skied whilst drunk. Around 9% of people said they had skied whilst slightly tipsy, two percent whilst, "moderately drunk" and one percent whilst "very drunk." Perry Wilson, managing director of InsureandGo said: "Be...

SnowHunter--UK, January 9, 2007-- The Compagnie des Alpes Group (CDA), the world's largest ski lift operator by visitor numbers and the operator of 18 of the leading ski resorts in France and some other countries, has announced consolidated revenue of 505.7million Euros represented a 4.3% increase within comparable consolidated structure. Ski are...

SnowHunter--UK, January 9, 2008--Russian President Vladimir Putin officially opened a new ski area at Krasnaya Polyana in Russia on January 2nd, less than two weeks after the new Revelstoke resort opened in British Columbia. The new ski area on Psekhako Ridge, 1,436m up, initially operates with 18 trails totaling 14km long and six lifts including...

SAM Magazine--Broomfield, Colo., January 8, 2008--Vail Resorts, Inc., announced today that Bill Jensen is leaving his position as president of the company's mountain division and COO of Vail to become CEO of Intrawest, effective June 1, 2008. Moving in to take over his responsbilities on January 31, 2008, are Beaver Creek's John Garnsey and Heav...

SAM Magazine - Breckenridge, Co., - The National Brotherhood of Skiers (NBS), one of the largest winter sports organizations in the United States, will hold the group's 2008 Annual Meeting and Challenge Cup (AMCC) at Colorado's Breckenridge from January 12-19. The AMCC is the NBS biennial convention and fundraiser, which is expected to bring mo...

SAM Magazine - Revelstoke, B.C. - The next big thing in Canadian skiing fired up the lifts last week. Revelstoke is now on line and operating, with five feet of snow; 4,735 vertical feet of lift-serviced terrain; 1,500 acres of skiing; and 27 new ski runs serviced by a $22 million Leitner Poma eight-person gondola and a high-speed quad chairlift. ...