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The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast

Stuart Winchester

Everyone’s searching for skiing’s soul. I’m trying to find its brains. www.stormskiing.com

sports & recreation outdoor

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45:44

COVID-19 & Skiing Podcast #2: Boyne Resorts President...

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2020/04/01

Download this episode on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher,TuneIn, and Pocket Casts | Read the full overview at skiing.substack.com.What this is: This is the second in a series of short conversations exploring the fallout to the ski industry from the COVID-19-forced closure of nearly every ski area on the continent in March 2020. This is not a typical Storm Skiing Podcast, and the format, tone, and focus is intentionally different from those lengthier shows. My goal is to help the community

33:19

COVID-19 & Skiing Podcast #1: Author and Industry...

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2020/03/27

Download this episode on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher,TuneIn, and Pocket Casts | Read the full overview at skiing.substack.com.What this is: This is the first in a series of conversations exploring the ski industry fallout from the COVID-19-forced closure of nearly every ski area on the continent in March 2020. This is not a typical Storm Skiing Podcast, and the format, tone, and focus is intentionally different from those lengthier shows. My goal is to help the skiing community understand why

62:07

Podcast #14: Big Snow and Mountain Creek VP of...

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2020/03/03

The Storm Skiing Podcast #14 | Download this episode on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher,TuneIn, and Pocket Casts | Read the full overview at skiing.substack.com.Who: Hugh Reynolds, Vice President of Marketing & Sales for Snow Operating, owners of Big Snow American Dream and Mountain CreekWhy I interviewed him: Modern New York City and its environs can be a frustrating place to live. There are many reasons for this, but one of the most grating is standing by while a tangle of ineptness swallows

58:06

Podcast #13: Sunday River President and General...

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2020/02/14

The Storm Skiing Podcast #13 | Download this episode on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, and Pocket Casts | Read the full overview at skiing.substack.com.Who: Dana Bullen, President and General Manager of Sunday River, MaineWhy I interviewed him: Because Sunday River, sprawling and varied and improbable, is one of the finest physical manifestations of New England can-do grit and individual initiative. This is what the mountain looked like in 1961 (The main hill rising from the parking lot

56:06

Podcast #12: Loon Mountain President and General...

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2020/02/07

The Storm Skiing Podcast #12 | Download this episode on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher,TuneIn, and Pocket Casts | Read the full overview at skiing.substack.com.Who: Jay Scambio, President and General Manager of Loon Mountain, New HampshireWhy I interviewed him: Because in a state brimming with big, complete ski areas, Loon finds a way to stand out. It does this partially via massive ongoing investment and partially via terrific location and partially via its home in the massive Boyne portfolio,

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Podcast #11: Sugarbush President and COO Win Smith

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2020/01/30

The Storm Skiing Podcast #11 | Download this episode on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, and Pocket Casts | Read the full overview at skiing.substack.com.Who: Win Smith, President and Chief Operating Officer of Sugarbush Why I thought that now was a good time for this interview: Because after standing as one of the last large independent mountains in the East for nearly two decades, Sugarbush is as of Jan. 14 owned by Alterra Mountain Company. Championed by a core skier base as passionate

54:44

Podcast #10: Vermont Ski + Ride and Vermont Sports...

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2020/01/09

The Storm Skiing Podcast #10 | Download this episode on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, and Pocket Casts | Read the full overview at skiing.substack.com.Who: Lisa Lynn, Co-Publisher and Editor or Vermont Ski + Ride and Vermont SportsWhy I interviewed her: Because Vermont is the mothership of Northeast skiing, and Vermont Ski + Ride and Vermont Sports cover the state’s mountains more thoroughly and more frequently and with more passion than any other source. In what has been a rough

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Podcast #9: Berkshire East and Catamount Owner and GM...

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2019/12/20

The Storm Skiing Podcast #9 | Download this episode on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, and Pocket Casts | Read the full overview at skiing.substack.com.Who: Jon Schaefer, Berkshire East and Catamount Owner and General ManagerWhy I interviewed him: Because I think Berkshire East is one of the most underrated ski areas in the Northeast. Why it is is no mystery. It is too close to Vermont to be noticed and too in Massachusetts to be taken seriously. After all, rad skiing and Massachusetts

57:08

Podcast #8: Liftopia CEO Evan Reece

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2019/12/12

The Storm Skiing Podcast #8 | Download this episode on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, Spotify, and Pocket Casts | Read the full overview at skiing.substack.com.Who: Evan Reece, Cofounder and CEO of LiftopiaWhy I interviewed him: There are some mistakes you only make once. Spending New Year’s Eve in Times Square. Deciding in the parking garage as you’re exiting your vehicle to go stand in Times Square for four hours that nah I don’t need that ski coat it feels just fine in this flannel

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Podcast #7: Burke Mountain General Manager Kevin Mack

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2019/12/06

The Storm Skiing Podcast #7 | Download this episode on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, and Pocket Casts | Read the full overview at skiing.substack.com.Who: Kevin Mack, General Manager of Burke Mountain, VermontWhy I interviewed him: Because Burke is a terrific little ski area that is facing several simultaneous challenges, some permanent and some temporary: its tippy-top of Vermont map dot that makes it look like a longer drive than it is, its proximity to the northern Vermont monsters

56:34

Podcast #6: Boyne Resorts CEO Stephen Kircher

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2019/11/21

The Storm Skiing Podcast #6 | Download this episode on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn,and Pocket Casts | Read the full overview at skiing.substack.com.Who: Stephen Kircher, Boyne Resorts President and CEO Why I interviewed him: Because it’s worth remembering, in our hey-let’s-cash-out-and-sell-grandpa’s-ropetow-to-Vail-or-Alterra moment, that not only are family-owned mountains still a dogged and powerful presence in North American skiing, but one of the big four ski companies is itself

49:46

Podcast #5: Lift Blog Founder Peter Landsman

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2019/11/15

The Storm Skiing Podcast #5 | Download this episode on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn,and Pocket Casts | Read the full overview at skiing.substack.com.Who: Peter Landsman, Founder and Editor of Lift BlogWhy I interviewed him: One of the most disappointing aspects of the rad ski mags’ drift toward backcountry stoke over the past couple decades has been the corresponding decrease in focus on resort skiing and all that comes with it. I’m a resort skier and always have been, and the stories

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Podcast #4: Magic Mountain President Geoff Hatheway

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2019/11/06

The Storm Skiing Podcast #4 | Download this episode on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, TuneIn, and Pocket Casts | Read the full overview at skiing.substack.com.Who: Geoff Hatheway, Founder and President, Ski Magic LLCWhy I interviewed him: Because Magic might be the best story in skiing. Born in the sixties, purchased and expanded by Bromley in the 80s, abandoned for six winters in the 90s, the mountain has improbably risen from the dead to become the go-to glades-and-steeps bomber among the

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Podcast #3: New England Lost Ski Areas Project...

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2019/10/29

The Storm Skiing Podcast #3 | Download this episode on iTunes and Google Play | Read the full overview at skiing.substack.com. Who: Jeremy Davis, Founder of the New England Lost Ski Areas Project (NELSAP)Why I interviewed him: In college I discovered a ski areas of Michigan map from the 1970s with photos of dudes wearing sweaters and no helmets or even hats and smiling and jumping and I was surprised to find several mountains dotted along the highway grid that I had never heard of, since I had

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Podcast #2: Plattekill Mountain Owners Danielle and...

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2019/10/25

The Storm Skiing Podcast #2 | Download this episode on iTunes and Google Play| Read the full overview at skiing.substack.com.Who: Danielle and Laszlo Vajtay, Owners, Plattekill MountainWhy I interviewed them: Because Plattekill flat amazes me. Situated deep in the Catskills interior, surrounded by better funded and bigger neighbors, nearly unknown outside of die-hard ski circles, the odds of this family-owned mountain still existing at all, let alone thriving, would seem remote in our days of

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Podcast #1: Killington and Pico President and GM Mike...

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2019/10/13

The Storm Skiing Podcast #1 | Download this episode on iTunes and Google Play| Read the full overview at skiing.substack.com.Who: Mike Solimano, President and General Manager, Killington Resort and Pico MountainWhy I interviewed him: Because The Beast. Because October to June. Because sheer sprawl and size and moxie. Because we all need this place more than most of us will ever admit. Because if you’re going to start something like a podcast about Northeast skiing, you really ought to lead off with

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