On Thursday Bloomberg (via Buisiness Week) reported homeowners with $1 million plus mortgages are defaulting at about double the rate of other U.S. homeowners. In September payments on about 12% of mortgages over $1 million were 90 dyas or more late.
Over the past year we’ve seen many luxury ski resort developments based on a real [...]

“Dear skiers! Downhill skiing demands awareness. Advanced skier’s speed while descending the slope can reach 100 km/hour. In the places of mass skiing inexperienced and undisciplined skier is the serious danger for the others.” From the Bukovel Ski Slope Rules and Etiquette. “Obeying the rules will help you to have an exciting and effective rest [...]

I wonder how many people representing the various sectors of the ski industry are in Copenhagen? Current trends in climate change certainly don’t look good for the ski industry, do they? Yeah, I know, compared to the health insurance industry, or the banking industry, the ski industry is pretty small potatoes, so when its future [...]

I just read a report on Firsttracksonline stating that the Aspen Skiing Company signed on to a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal advocating for “both capping and putting a price for the first time ever on the pollution that causes global warming.”
I applaud ASC, but have to ask, where are Vail Resorts, [...]

In a previous post, There Goes the Neighborhood, I wondered about the future of the Yellowstone Club now that economic sanity is being valued even by people with enough money to live frivolously indefinitely. Has all the bad PR and gloating by critics and schadenfreudenistas permanently branded the YC as a new kind of toxic [...]

This has been a good news- bad news few days for those of us who love winter. Yesterday, an American President finally stepped up and told the car makers they had to improve gas mileage averages for their car and truck fleets ( meaning-less importing of foreign oil, less pollution, few dollars spent at the [...]

Congrats to my wonderful local ski hill, Grand Targhee, for winning the 2009 Golden Eagle Award for Overall Environmental Excellence by a ski resort at the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) National Convention and Tradeshow going on in Florida. As I noted last month, Grand Targhee became the “first organization in North America” to have [...]

A couple of days ago I posted the latest NASA map showing all the areas on the Earth’s surface that were either warmer than normal or cooler than normal in March 09 and it was a depressing map for skiers to look at with warming areas covering far more of the Earth than cooling areas.
We [...]

I finally got around to checking out NASA’s global temperature monitoring data for March of 2009 and sadly March’s temperature map shows a continuation of this winter’s above average temperatures across most the vast majority of the Earth’s land masses. Only Alaska and the Canadian Rockies, out of all the Earth’s ski domains,  got a [...]

What might Flint, Michigan have to do with the future of skiing? Maybe a report on the radio yesterday about Flint’s efforts to become a smaller city will prove to be predictive of a not to distant in the future happening in the world of some ski resort communities.
What is Flint trying to do? The [...]