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Posts Tagged Ski Resorts

Report: ski areas becoming greener as flow of green decreases

By | 12.07.10 | 12:53 pm

Colorado ski resorts seem to be getting much better environmental marks these days from a grassroots activist group that ranks them based on recycling programs, development projects, energy efficiency and terrain expansion – but that may just be because of…

Credit Suisse and the collapse of the West’s most posh ski and golf resorts

By | 03.09.09 | 9:54 am

A March 5 article in Bloomberg Markets Magazine paints a picture of wild excess in the high-end mountain resort development game, starting with the recent failure of Tamarack Resort in Idaho, the bankruptcy of the private Yellowstone Club in Montana and ending with Florida’s Bobby Ginn.

The Battle for Battle Mountain

By | 05.19.08 | 8:30 am

The fate of a high-dollar, private ski-and-golf resort adjacent to Vail is now largely in hands of voters.

Tucked away in a narrow valley between Vail and Leadville in Colorado’s central Rockies, in the shadows of the mega ski…

I-70 Toll Tanks, Rail Resuscitated, but is There Political Will?

By | 04.25.08 | 5:43 pm

Even as an Interstate 70 toll proposal came to a screeching halt and simultaneously the concept of a mountain rail corridor got a big boost from the state Thursday, the twin questions of funding and political will for mountain mass