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Midwest Lost Ski Areas Project


 

THE STORM SKIING JOURNAL

https://www.stormskiing.com/

MIDWEST SKI AREA PODCASTS

 

Podcast #197: Steeplechase, MN

Owner Justin Steck
Another lost ski area comeback story

Podcast #190: Giants Ridge, MN

GM Fred Seymour
A polished gem, straight from the mines
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Podcast #188: Crystal Mountain, MI

CEO John Melcher
A spotlight on one of the Midwest's best.

Podcast #185: Norway Mountain, MI

Michigan Owner Justin Hoppe
A Midwest ski area, closed since 2017, will re-open this winter.
Oct. 17, 2024 • Stuart Winchester

Podcast #172: Tyrol Basin, WI

Owner & General Manager Nathan McGree
During winter, it's a 100-day war."
May 20, 2024 • Stuart Winchester

Podcast #160: Buck Hill, MN

Chief Operating Officer Nathan Birr
Why a glacial bump in Minnesota is one of the world's top race-training centers.
Feb 8, 2024 • Stuart Winchester

Podcast #154: Snowriver, MI

General Manager Benjamin Bartz
"This lift actually is going to cost more to install than the purchase of the entire two ski areas was."
Dec 8, 2023 • Stuart Winchester

Podcast #152: Lutsen Mountains, MN

GM Jim Vick
Going deep on the Midwest's most complete ski area.
Nov 14, 2023 • Stuart Winchester

Podcast #148: Cascade Mountain, WI

Wisconsin General Manager Matt Vohs
A deep look at one of the Midwest's top family-owned ski areas.
Oct 23, 2023 • Stuart Winchester

Podcast #146: Great Bear, SD

South Dakota General Manager Dan Grider
“We feed the West”
Oct 2, 2023 • Stuart Winchester

Podcast #138: Trollhaugen

Wisconsin Owner & General Manager Jim Rochford, Jr.
“If the skiers are going to invest in us, then we’re going to invest in them.”
Aug 1, 2023 • Stuart Winchester

Podcast #122: Whitecap Mountains, WI

Owner & General Manager David Dziuban
"I looked at my dog, and he looked at me, and I said, 'Buddy, we're home.'"
Apr 3, 2023 • Stuart Winchester

Podcast #106: Boyne Resorts, MI

President and CEO Stephen Kircher
“It’s a Golden Age for North American skiing”
Nov 21, 2022 • Stuart Winchester

Podcast #102: Mount Bohemia, MI

Owner, Founder, & President Lonie Glieberman
“I really believe that advanced skiers don't want to ski on groomed runs ... They want the best, most interesting terrain.”
Oct 26, 2022 • Stuart Winchester

Podcast #100: Nub’s Nob, MI

General Manager Ben Doornbos
"There is absolutely no tech out there that is ever going to beat an educated, caring snowmaker who's going gun to gun, checking what's going on with…
Oct 15, 2022

Podcast #93: Perfect North Slopes, IN

Indiana General Manager Jonathan M. Davis (with a Timberline, WV Bonus)
“The people of the Midwest are fiercely loyal”
Jun 28, 2022 • Stuart Winchester

Podcast #87: Paul Bunyan, WI

Wisconsin Owners TJ and Wendy Kerscher
"We got some guys together with some chainsaws and started cutting.”
May 28, 2022 • Stuart Winchester

Podcast #75: Nordic Mountain, Little Switzerland, & The Rock Snowpark, WI

Co-Owner Rick Schmitz
How Schmitz bought his first ski area at 22 and turned three failing businesses into one successful company.
Feb 22, 2022 • Stuart Winchester

Podcast #74: The Highlands at Harbor Springs (Formerly Boyne Highlands), MI

President & GM Mike Chumbler
Behind this Northern Michigan resort's transformational 2030 journey
Feb 18, 2022 • Stuart Winchester

Podcast #57: Boyne Mountain, MI

General Manager Ed Grice
How Boyne Mountain 2030 will transform one of Michigan's finest ski areas; with a guest appearance by Director of Marketing Kari Roder
Oct 19, 2021 • Stuart Winchester

Podcast #52: Lutsen Mountains , MN

Co-President/Co-Owner & Granite Peak Owner Charles Skinner
These Midwest giants are nowhere near done growing
Sep 3, 2021 • Stuart Winchester

Podcast #50: Caberfae Peaks, MI

Michigan Co-Owner & GM Tim Meyer
How the Meyer family transformed a two-mile-wide sprawl of ropetows and T-bars into one of the Midwest's best ski areas
Jul 26, 2021 • Stuart Winchester

Podcast #39: Granite Peak, WI

Wisconsin GM & Marketing Director Greg Fisher
Feb 28, 2021 • Stuart Winchester

Podcast #6: Boyne Resorts

CEO Stephen Kircher
Nov 21, 2019 • Stuart Winchester


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