SAM Magazine--Rossland B.C., June 4, 2004--A private investment group led by Howard Katkov of San Diego has purchased Red Mountain Resort for an undisclosed amount. With a recently approved community plan in hand to guide future development, the new ownership expects to construct 1,300 dwelling units and 70,000 square feet of commercial space ov...

SAM Magazine--Rossland B.C., June 4, 2004--A private investment group led by Howard Katkov of San Diego has purchased Red Mountain Resort for an undisclosed amount. With a recently approved community plan in hand to guide future development, the new ownership expects to construct 1,300 dwelling units and 70,000 square feet of commercial space ov...

SAM Magazine--McLean, Va., June 7, 2004--Overall sales at ski and snowboard specialty and chain stores for August through March increased a mere 0.6 percent in dollars during 2003-04 season, to $2.21 billion, compared to $2.20 billion for 2002-03, according to the end-of-season SIA Retail Audit. In snowboards, both equipment and apparel sales in...

SAM Magazine--Savannah, Georgia, May 19, 2004--Seven new members were elected to the National Ski Areas Association's board, along with a new chairman. Taking on the top spot is David Crowley, president of Wachusett Mountain, Mass. Crowley previously served on the executive board as vice chair. He replaces Sugarbowl's Rob Kautz. Also elected are...

SAM Magazine--Savannah, Georgia, May 17, 2004--The National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) released the preliminary skier visit numbers for the 2003/2004 season which are projected to be 56.8 million, the third best season on record. The numbers are down 1.3 percent from the 2002/2003 season which set the all-time record of 57.6 million. The Pacif...

SAM Magazine--Big Bear Lake, Calif., May 14, 2004--Big Bear Mountain Resorts (BBMR) areas Bear Mountain and Snow Summit totaled nearly 800,000 visits this past season. As a result of positioning Bear Mountain as a snowboard and ski pipe and park mountain and downplaying those features at sister area Snow Summit, the two areas have developed two ...

SAM Magazine--North Woodstock, N.H., May 14, 2004--New Hampshire recorded its third best winter in the past decade, posting 2,044,422 alpine skier and snowboarder visits. The figure is slightly above the state's 10-year average and down just 9 percent from last year, the state's second-best ever. Mid-season estimates were for visits to fall by 10 t...

SAM Magazine--Oceanside, Calif., May 13, 2004--TransWorld Media is launching TransWorld Business, a new monthly trade magazine for retailers, that will cover the skate, surf, and snowboarding industries. The new title will debut in September and incorporate elements of, and replace, TransWorld SNOWboarding Business, TransWorld SKATEboarding Busines...

SAM Magazine--Vancouver, B.C., May 13, 2004--Intrawest recorded improved revenues for the fiscal 2004 third quarter ended March 31, 2004 despite reduced skier visits. Total revenue for the quarter was $437.3 million compared with $402.5 million for the same period last year. Total Company EBITDA was $128.1 million compared with $125.5 million in...

SAM Magazine--Scranton, Pa., May 10, 2004--Montage Mountain Ski Area, owned by Lackawanna County, is for sale. The minimum sale price is $9.6 million in cash. Three potential bidders have shown interest, including one group led by Joe Aichholz Jr., owner of nearby Blue Marsh Ski Area. A northern Poconos ski area is also said to be interested. The c...

SAM Magazine--Salt Lake City, Utah, May 10, 2004--Utah's 13 ski areas achieved record attendance this past season, with 3,386,141 skier-rider visits. That is three percent above the previous best season (2000-01) and seven percent better than 2002-03. And the record will grow, as Snowbird is still open through May 31. Ski Utah credited early and...

SAM Magazine--Telluride, Colo., April 23, 2004--Telluride Ski & Golf Resort has named Raymond Jacobi as the company's new chief executive officer (CEO). Jacobi will oversee all aspects of resort operations, sales, marketing and management as well as the overall growth and development of properties recently purchased by the resort's new majority ...

SAM Magazine--Lakewood, Colo., April 23, 2004--Troy Hawks has been named managing editor of the NSAA Journal, effective May 3. Hawks joins NSAA after a decade-long writing and editing career that includes positions with several mountain newspapers and contributions to national trade and consumer magazines, among them SKI, Fly Rod & Reel, Rocky M...

SAM Magazine--Vancouver, B.C., April 22, 2004--Intrawest has combined all of its travel and resort businesses into the newly formed Leisure and Travel Group, which includes Intrawest's mountain and warm-weather resorts, lodging and central reservations businesses, and Club Intrawest. This group of businesses generated $650 million in revenues in fi...

SAM Magazine--Sandpoint, Idaho, April 22, 2004--Ron Nova, VP of Operations for Schweitzer Mountain parent company Harbor Resorts, is Schweitzer's new GM. He replaces Tom Fortune, Schweitzer's GM for the past 5 years, who is resigning to join a local real-estate company. Nova has spent most of his career at Stevens Pass, also owned by Harbor Reso...