Midwest Ski Journal likes to highlight a few pieces of skiing internet worth your time in Linking Turns. Find the best, most important, least important and otherwise links here each week. This week we look at new and creative ski day lunches before looking into Steamboat's survey of its businesses regarding climate change. Finally, we …
MSJ Rewind: President’s Day 2018 at Whitefish was all-time
This President's Day weekend, MSJ is throwing it back to one of our first posts, recapping a weekend at Whitefish that started great and ended with feet of deep, cold powder. Four years later, I feel safe admitting to my now former boss that I was not "snowed in" and couldn't make it to work …
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What ski-specific pandemic changes we’d like to see endure
The pandemic has made nearly everything worse, but we are going to take a step back and highlight a few changes to the skiing experience that we wouldn’t mind sticking around in the long term. Beyond the utter death and destruction this thing has wreaked on the world, the pandemic has not been kind to …
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Linking Turns: Bad backcountry news, a Michigan hill’s history and class dynamics in Jackson
Midwest Ski Journal likes to highlight a few pieces of skiing internet worth your time in Linking Turns. Find the best, most important, least important and otherwise links here each week. This week, we read some tough, if not unexpected news about backcountry deaths. Then, a historian tells us about the history of a hill …
Reminiscing about the once great ‘Ski Resort Tycoon’
Lost in the proliferation of the “Tycoon” games of the 2000s was perhaps the greatest PC game ever created. The cover of Ski Resort Tycoon. (Amazon) Ski Resort Tycoon is as simple as it sounds. Instead of a zoo or a theme park, the player builds an economically sustainable ski resort based on a few …
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Linking Turns: New Sun Country directs, kids turning to the outdoors and crushing 90,000 vertical feet in a day
Midwest Ski Journal likes to highlight a few pieces of skiing internet worth your time in Linking Turns. Find the best, most important, least important and otherwise links here each week. This week, we look at Sun Country's new flights to our favorite mountains. Then, we look at data showing American kids trending towards individual, …
It’s a good day: Mount Bohemia opens for the season
It’s a good day in Midwest skiing as Mount Bohemia has opened. I, of course, take full credit for writing about Bohemia’s woes less than a week ago, thus jinxing their dry spell and allowing them to open. You all are very welcome. Mount Bohemia. Seven days a week, Midwest skiers yearning for some vertical, …
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Linking Turns: A fat forecast, a bear at the resort and Grand Targhee’s master plan
Midwest Ski Journal likes to highlight a few pieces of skiing internet worth your time in Linking Turns. Find the best, most important, least important and otherwise links here each week. This week we look at a deep, deep forecast on the west coast. Then, we watch a snowblader elude a bear underneath the chairlift …
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Backcountry lite: A city park in Eden Prairie, Minnesota
Richard T. Anderson Conservation area in the Minneapolis suburb of Eden Prairie is one of my favorite places to hike close to the metro, but I’ve long wondered how skiable it is, too. The answer: It goes. Tip shot at Richard T. Anderson Conservation Area in Eden Prairie, Minn. The sublime, powdery backcountry excursions of …
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Mt. Bohemia strikes passholder agreements, flirts with snowmaking during dry start to season
Midwest skiing’s crown jewel has yet to open, leading the ski area to consider snowmaking and striking deals with other area hills to give passholders somewhere to shred. I’d imagine the mood is tense up on the Upper Peninsula this winter as the season is hurtling toward February without a single lift ride taken at …
