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This edition of the Coffee Landing Radio Hour is a comedy variety show recorded before a live audience at the Coffee Landing Cafe, Int'l Falls. The features (in order of appearance) are “Hire-a-Loon” (1:49), Bob & Ray's “Slow Talkers of America” (5:46), The Plucked Pair sings “Blowin' in the Wind” (10:16), “Code Name: Hotdish” (13:45), “Greetings from Beyond” (24:01), 5-Minute Mystery “The Shelf of Doom” (28:49), The Plucked Pair with “Down by the Riverside” (36:01), “The Children's Table” (40:14), “The Last Word” (57:55).

WhoTim Smith, President and General Manager of Waterville Valley, New HampshireRecorded onNovember 12, 2025About Waterville ValleyClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: The Sununu FamilyLocated in: Waterville Valley, New HampshireYear founded: 1966Pass affiliations:* Indy Pass, Indy+ Pass: 2 days, no blackouts* White Mountain Super Pass: unlimited, no blackouts* Indy Learn-to-Turn: 3 days, includes rentals, lesson, lift ticket; limited lift access* Ski New Hampshire Kids Passport: 1 day with holiday blackouts* Uphill New England: no lift accessBase elevation: 1,984 feet (highest in New Hampshire, 3rd in New England)Summit elevation: 4,004 feet (2nd-highest in New Hampshire, 5th in New England)Vertical drop: 2,020 feet (4th-highest in New Hampshire, 14th in New England)Skiable acres: 265Average annual snowfall: 148 inchesTrail count: 62 (14% novice, 64% intermediate, 22% advanced)Lift count: 10 (1 six-pack, 1 high-speed quad, 2 triples, 2 doubles, 2 T-bars, 2 carpets)Why I interviewed himWell no one wants to hear this but we got to $300 lift tickets the same way we got to $80,000 pickup trucks. We're Americans Goddamnit and we just can't do stickshifts and we sure as s**t ain't standin' up on our skis to ride back up the mountain. It's pure agony you see. We need us a nine-pack chairlift with a bubble and a breakroom and a minibar and surround sound and Lazy-Boy seats and hell no we ain't ridin' it with eight strangers we'll hold back and take a whole chair to our ownselves. And it needs to move fast, Son. Like embarrass-the-Concord fast because God help us we spend more than 90 seconds with our own thoughts.I'm not aiming to get kicked out of America here, but if I may submit a few requests regarding our self-inflicted false price floors. I would like the option of purchasing a brand-new car with a manual transmission and windows rolled up and down with a hand-crank. I would like to keep pedaling my bicycle. I would like to cut the number of holidays with commercial mandates by 80 percent. I would prefer that we not set the air-conditioners to 60 when it's 65 degrees outside. This doesn't mean I want to get rid of all the air-conditioners but could we maybe take it easy on the frostbite-in-July overkill of it all?My Heretic Wishlist for American Skiing includes but is not limited to: more surface lifts, especially to serve terrain parks, high-altitude exposed terrain, and expert pods; on-resort lodging that does not still require a commute-by-personal-vehicle to reach the lifts; and thoughtful terrain management that retains ungroomed sections for skiers who like things about skiing other than going fast.Waterville Valley is doing all of these things. It is perhaps the only major American ski area in decades to replace a chairlift with a surface lift on a non-beginner terrain pod, and the only one to build two new T-bars this century. A planned gondola would connect Waterville Valley the town with Waterville Valley the ski area, correcting an only-in-America setup that separates these inseparable places by two miles of road. The glade network grows annually in both subtle and obvious ways.This is not a ski area going in reverse. Waterville is modern and keeps modernizing. The four-year-old Tecumseh bubble six-pack, though bookended with T-bars, is one of the nicest chairlifts in America. Skiers still go groomer-kaboom on morning cord. Suburban office-park dads with interstate commutes and a habit of lecturing the Facebook Commons about the virtues of snow tires can still park their 42-wheel-drive Abrams-Caterpillar-F-15,000 Tanktruck in sub-parking lot 42Z and walk uphill to the lifts. But Waterville Valley is one of a handful of American ski areas, along with Killington and Deer Valley and Winter Park, that is embracing all of our luxe cultural excesses while pursuing the very un-American ambition of putting more skiers close to skiing.No ski area is perfect. For all the cash saved on those T-bars, peak-day Waterville lift tickets still hit $145. The mountain's season pass is the second-most expensive single-mountain season passes in New England – more than a top-line Epic Pass (an adult WV pass includes a free pass for a kid age 6 to 12, which is great if you have one of those). That's bold pricing for the 22nd-largest ski area in New England, especially one that still spins three Stadeli chairlifts that predate the extinction of the dinosaurs. And two high-speed chairlifts is not a lot of high-speed chairlifts for a 2,000-vertical-foot ski area (though about half of New England's 2,000-footers run just two or fewer detaches).Yeah I know. Sick burn from someone who was waxing about surface lifts four paragraphs ago. I may have collected too many ski area Lego blocks in my mental bucket, and they don't always click together back here on planet Earth. “More villages,” I say while dismissing Aspen as a subsidized simulacrum of itself. “Big fast lifts rule,” I say while setting off fire alarms as first-generation chairlifts disintegrate and the cost of their most basic replacements escalates. “No-grooming, all-glades makes the best ski area,” I say, while condemning resort operators for $356 lift tickets that dam the masses. “Vail is too expensive,” I say. “Vail is too cheap,” I also say. “Modernize our chairlifts,” I say while celebrating the joy of riding an antique Riblet double. I endorse ski areas splitting off from conglomerates and ski areas joining them. These narratives can feel contradictory at best and schizophrenic at worst.But that tension is part of what draws me to lift-served ski areas, where two things central to my worldview – wild nature and human invention – merge. Or perhaps more accurately, collide. Both forces act at all times not only to extinguish one another, but themselves: above-freezing temps trash two feet of new snow; bad liftline management cancels out the capacity benefits of a $12 million lift upgrade. Making a ski area function, then, requires continual tweaking, of both the nuanced and look-at-us-press-release variety. A ski area is a business, sure, but that's almost a coincidence. The act of building and running a ski area is foremost an art, architecture, and engineering project that requires a somewhat madcap conductor to succeed. As with any artform, there is no one correct and final way to build a ski area. The variety is central to skiing's appeal. But there are operator/artist attributes - flexibility, inventiveness, consistency tempered by openness to change - that contribute to the overall quality and cohesion of the individual ski area experience in the context of competing ski areas. In the current version of Waterville Valley, we find one of our best contemporary examples of a ski area evolving toward the best version of itself under the stewardship of owners and managers possessing exactly these traits.What we talked aboutThe return of World Cup training and events to Waterville; drifting away from and back toward freeskiing culture; the best terrain parks in New England; why terrain parks are drifting away from mega-features; what happened to all the halfpipes?; and ramps?; no really no one wore helmets in the ‘90s; building terrain parks before institutional knowledge and the internet; the lost Hidden Valley, Wisconsin ski area; the rise of the high-speed ropetow; why Waterville replaced one T-bar and one Poma with a new T-bar (rather than a chairlift); why Waterville installed night skiing; the return of the Exhibition terrain park; self-installing the World Cup T-bar; Waterville's ops blog; why the Tecumseh Express sixer needed new bubbles after just a couple of seasons; why bubbles cost so much and how Waterville manufactured a less expensive one; Tecumseh's incredible wind resistance; MND lifts as an alternative to the two large U.S.-based lift manufacturers; a chairlift's “infancy” and how different 2020s lift technology is from early detachable tech; how Waterville's masterplan would reorient the mountain and skier traffic with an expansion and new lifts; Waterville's declining skier visits and whether that's a bad thing; how the resort's 1994 bankruptcy changed Waterville's trajectory; what stoked the Green Peak expansion; “we've been on a track to try to rebuild that energy we saw in the 1990s”; why Waterville turned away from discounting; “the right quantity of skiers on the right amount of surface”; building more terrain diversity; and a gondola connection from town to mountain.Should someone tell them they're running it backwards? Video by Stuart Winchester.What I got wrong* I said that the “High Country double chair was still standing” – what I meant was that parts of it were still in place. The top terminal remains, sans bullwheel, and the base terminal and motor room remain as a patrol shack:* I said that Waterville hadn't been known for terrain parks until recently, but Smith recalled that the ski area was more freestyle-centric from the ‘70s through the ‘90s, before pulling back during the first part of this century.* I said that 1,100 skiers per hour was “a little less than what a double chair would move,” thinking standard capacity for a double was 1,200 per hour. Smith says it is 900. Exact capacity varies from lift-to-lift, however. Lift Blog itemizes hourly capacities of between 800 and 1,200 for four of Smugglers' Notch's double chairs, between 1,000 and 1,200 for four of Mt. Spokane's fleet of Riblet doubles, and 1,000 for Waterville's Lower Meadows double. We all know, however, that the hourly capacity for a double chair is however many people are in line minus the number not paying attention minus singles who refuse to ride with anyone. So I don't know maybe 50.Podcast NotesOn other mentioned podcasts* World Cup competition returning to Sun Valley:* Heavenly backing out of mega-parks features:* Killington and the cost of bubbles:* Waterville part 1, from 2021:On Partek and each lift being differentOn Waterville's ownership historyFounder Tom Corcoran owned Waterville Valley from 1966 until 1994, when he sold to American Skiing Company (ASC) antecedent S-K-I. The feds made ASC dispense with Waterville and Cranmore when they merged with LBO Enterprises in 1996. Booth Creek (more on them below), bought the ski area and held it until 2010, when they sold it to the Sununu family. This makes Waterville one of just a handful of ski areas to ever enter a multi-mountain pass portfolio and then exit to independence - though Killington and Ragged recently did exactly that, and Eldora may follow.On Mt. Holiday, MichiganThis is just a little 200-footer, but it's still around on the outskirts of Traverse City, Michigan:That trailmap doesn't really communicate the ski area's essence. A little better are these pics I took on a summertime swing-through a few years back:I never skied there though, always preferring the far-larger Sugar Loaf, right down the road (which Smith and I also discussed):Until it was abandoned around 2000, this was one of the better ski areas in Michigan's Lower Peninsula. After a succession of owners - one of whom stripped all the chairlifts off the bump - failed to bring skiing back, the Leelanau Conservancy recently took ownership of the property. Skiing will return as an officially sanctioned activity, though unfortunately without a lift or snowmaking. I would have at least liked to have seen a ropetow. Here's their vision:On midwestskier.com Yes, Kids, the internet really did used to look like this:On Hidden Valley, WisconsinHere's a little ski hill that didn't make it. Smith spent time at Hidden Valley, Wisconsin, which opened in 1956 and closed forever in 2013. The chairlift appears to have been moved to nearby, county-run Kewaunee Winter Park, where it awaits installation.On high-speed ropetowsI am a huge fan of high-speed ropetows, which are a cheap and effective means to isolate users of terrain parks or other specialized, intensive-use zones from the broader ski area. Here's one at Spirit Mountain, Minnesota in 2023 (video by Stuart Winchester):On Waterville Valley's masterplanThis is perhaps the best angle of how Waterville's expansion would connect the legacy trail network to the town:Here's the Forest Service masterplan slide:Neither of these images, however, show how the gondola would eventually connect down into town, which is the crucial element of transforming Waterville Valley from a ski-area-that-says-it's-a-ski-resort into an actual ski resort. Here's a look at that connection:Waterville set up an excellent microsite detailing the hoped-for evolution.On Booth CreekAt the mid-90s height of American Skiing Company dominance, a former Vail executive assembled a cross-country ski area portfolio with ambitions of creating a hub-and-spoke network:Booth Creek ultimately sold off most of its properties, but still own Sierra-at-Tahoe. Grand Targhee GM Geordie Gillett was involved in the whole saga and broke it down for us in 2024:On Waterville going from one of the oldest lift fleets in New England to one of the most modernWhile Waterville runs some of the last Stadeli lifts in America (I count 16), the ski area has modernized extensively over the past decade:On U.S. Forest Service ski areas in the EastMost (109) of the 119 active U.S. ski areas on United States Forest Service leases sit in the West; two are in the Midwest, and eight are in the East: Bromley, Mount Snow, and Sugarbush, Vermont; Waterville Valley, Loon, Attitash, and Wildcat, New Hampshire; and Timberline, West Virginia. None, as far as I know, sit entirely within the boundaries of a national forest, but even partial overlap triggers the requirement to submit an updated masterplan each decade.The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us. 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In der nächsten BierTalk-Folge wird's… ungewöhnlich: Wir sitzen in einer Kühlzelle. Nicht aus Show-Gründen, sondern weil nebenan gerade gebraut wird – und es hier drin herrlich ruhig ist. Schauplatz ist die Schweiz, genauer: die Brauerei Chen van Loon, und mein Gastgeber ist Jan van Loon. Jan erzählt, wie aus belgischen Wurzeln, Schweizer Alltag und einer ordentlichen Portion Technikleidenschaft (vom Feinmechaniker bis zum Maschinenbau) eine kleine, extrem sauber strukturierte Brauerei wurde – inklusive Farbcode für „sauber / nicht sauber“ und dem Spagat zwischen Brauen, Abfüllen, Liefern und Events. Das Herzstück der Folge: Bier trifft Wein – aber nicht als Mixgetränk, sondern als echte Co-Fermentation. Wir probieren das Sauvignon Ale (mit Trauben vergoren) und den Vigneron – Cuvée du Patron (weinige Aromatik ganz ohne Trauben, nur über Hopfen, Säure und Komposition). Zwei Biere, die verblüffend „weinige“ Momente erzeugen – dicht, moussierend, elegant – und perfekt für Beer & Dine. Eine Folge über Genuss, Handwerk, Timing (Hopfengabe nicht vergessen!) – und darüber, wie man mit einer klaren Idee ein Bier baut, das wirklich eine eigene Kategorie sein könnte...

Dan speaks with Congressman Matt Van Epps about the sexual harassment situation pertaining to elected officials and then Dan plays fun with audio as James Talarico makes a fool of himself in his own words | aired on Thursday, March 5th, 2026 on Nashville's Morning News with Dan Mandis See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In dieser Folge schauen wir uns an, was die neuen Studien aus 2025 zur veganen Sporternährung wirklich zeigen – jenseits von Mythen und Social-Media-Hot-Takes. Wir sprechen darüber, worauf die Forschung aufbaut, welche Methoden in den aktuellen Interventionsstudien und Reviews genutzt wurden und wie belastbar die Ergebnisse sind. Im Fokus stehen dabei drei große Fragen: Leistung & Regeneration: Beeinflusst eine vegane Ernährung die Laufökonomie, Muskelkraft und Erholung – z. B. nach exzentrischer Belastung wie Downhill-Running? Muskelaufbau: Sind vegane und omnivore Ernährung gleichwertig, wenn es um muskelproteinsynthese-getriebene Anpassungen geht – und welche Rolle spielen Proteinmenge, Leucin-Schwelle, Verteilung über den Tag und Lebensmittelqualität? Praxis im Teamsport: Was passiert unter realen Bedingungen bei Fußballern – inklusive Blutmarker, Nährstoffstatus und Performance? Außerdem ordnen wir ein, wo vegane Athlet:innen besonders aufmerksam sein sollten (z. B. Kreatin, Omega-3, Vitamin B12, Eisen, Energieverfügbarkeit), welche Limitationen die 2025er Datenlage noch hat (Stichproben, Studiendauer, Populationen) und welche konkreten Takeaways sich für Training, Ernährung und Supplementstrategie ableiten lassen. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dominiks Buch zur pflanzenbasierten Sporternährung im UTB-Verlag: https://www.utb.de/doi/book/10.36198/9783838560328 Dominiks Gesundheitscommunity: www.gsundes-hannover.de Dominiks Online-Knie-Kurs: https://gsundes-hannover.de/knieschmerzen/ Dominiks Online-Rücken-Kurs: https://copecart.com/products/34bd5abb/checkout Marcs veganes Online-Fitness-Coaching: https://vegainer-academy.com/ Marcs Online-Kurs: https://www.copecart.com/products/a50f88f2/checkout ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dieser Podcast wird unterstützt von der Firma Watson Nutrition. Die Firma bietet als einzige umfassend laborgeprüfte Nahrungsergänzungsmittel für eine optimierte Nährstoffversorgung. Zum Angebot zählen Multi-Supplemente, Mono-Supplemente, Sportsupplemente wie Kreatin oder auch Proteinriegel, Shakes und essenzielle Aminosäuren Mit dem Code veganperformance erhältst du 5 % Rabatt auf deine Bestellung.  Zur Firmenwebseite: Watson Nutrition ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quellen: Askow, A. T., Barnes, T. M., ZupancTic, Z., Deutz, M. T., Paulussen, K. J. M., McKenna, C. F., Salvador, A. F., Ulanov, A. V., Paluska, S. A., Willard, J. W., Petruzzello, S. J., & Burd, N. A. (2025). Impact of vegan diets on resistance exercise-mediated myofibrillar protein synthesis in healthy young males and females: A randomized controlled trial. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0000000000003725 Domić, J., Pinckaers, P. J. M., Grootswagers, P., Siebelink, E., Gerdessen, J. C., van Loon, L. J. C., & de Groot, L. C. P. G. M. (2025). A well-balanced vegan diet does not compromise daily mixed muscle protein synthesis rates when compared with an omnivorous diet in active older adults: A randomized controlled cross-over trial. The Journal of Nutrition, 155, 1141–1150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tjnut.2024.12.019 Nebl, J., Bruns, P., Meier, M., Mayer, F., Smollich, M., & Keller, M. (2025). The effect of an 8-week vegan diet on the nutritional status and performance of semi-professional soccer players—Results of the VegInSoc study. Nutrients, 17, 2351. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu17142351 Vergara A. Nieto, Á., Halabi Diaz, A., & Hernández, M. (2025). Are there effective vegan-friendly supplements for optimizing health and sports performance? A narrative review. Current Nutrition Reports, 14, Article 44. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13668-025-00633-4 Vasenina, E., Sterner, D. A., Mangum, L. C., Stout, J. R., & Fukuda, D. H. (2025). Effects of vegan and omnivore diet on post-downhill running economy and muscle function. Journal of the American Nutrition Association, 44(3), 235–244. https://doi.org/10.1080/27697061.2024.2421535

Recruitmentexpert Jesse Geul ontmaskert de clichés die goede kandidaten wegja­gen. Vol concrete tips voor recruitment die écht werken. Stop met 'enthousiaste duizendpoten' zoeken! Uitgegeven door Business Contact Spreker: Jurjen van Loon

Co-founder of Loon Liquors Mark Schiller discusses the first few months in their new location in downtown Northfield, their Valentine's Day specials, and more. 

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Join us as we take a look at some more Looney fairy tale shorts, two of which focused on Tom Thumb! Marc sees an early Chuck Jones effort with a design that seems awfully familar in 'Tom Thumb in Trouble' Jordan covers a contemporary take on the piped piper with Porky Pig in 'Paying the Piper' And we finish with a later era Chuck Jones/John Dunn outing with the half-hearted story of 'I Was A Teenage Thumb'Links:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Support us on Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow us on Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow us on Bluesky⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Follow us on Instagram

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with The Incomparable. It’s time to discuss that Canadian hockey show everyone’s been talking about. “Heated Rivalry” just wants to know, “Will you come to the cottage this summer?” Annette Wierstra with Kirsten Goruk, Heather Berberet, Stacy Watnick and Kat Benesh.

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with The Incomparable. It’s time to discuss that Canadian hockey show everyone’s been talking about. “Heated Rivalry” just wants to know, “Will you come to the cottage this summer?” Annette Wierstra with Kirsten Goruk, Heather Berberet, Stacy Watnick and Kat Benesh.

PLEASE SIGN UP ON PATREON, EVEN IF IT'S FOR FREE! Posting everything here has become a burden, and if you're only listening to this feed you probably aren't getting all of the episodes. Sign up now at Patreon. It’s two podcasts (Pod Yourself and the Frotcast) for the price of one! Patreon dot com slash frotcast! This episode is free, but $5 a month gets you all the premium ones (usually at least two a week!).  The penguin meme- Where does it come from? What does it mean? What message is the Trump administration trying to convey by sharing it? Is electing a president whose brain has been turned to beef stew by the internet good? Answers to one or two of these questions, and MORE…on this week's Frotcast! Vince shows us why Up**xx made him expendable: so they could use that money to hire Will.I.Am. The erstwhile Black Eyed Pea was recently seen lecturing Arizona State students on why they need to buy an Nvidia processor to host their own AI that will work [citation needed] for them so they can at least profit from being replaced by AI. Well well well, looks like Mr. Fancy Pants Mancini did himself a fat lot of good going Ivy League, he could have been banging strippers (present and future) and programming a digital slave in Tempe! Ilhan Omar got sprayed with apple cider vinegar by some weird old dude and she almost beat his ass lol. Dude's brother also called him a piece of shit in the newspaper and everything. Let's just ignore what this may say about our current state of affairs in America or what it portends, and just enjoy one of life's simple pleasures, pointing and laughing at a buffoon. Finally, cuck ethics- watch us turn into right wing influencers in real time as we discuss a true cuckolding situation that plays out in the pages of the failing New York Times. That will be 400,000 dollars, comrades. Matt also tells a story about taking an injured Loon to an animal rescue, but I'm not sure what the point was.

Hour 2 - Live from Loon mountain for Snow Show #2, the crew are joined by Pop Douglas who like us still can't believe that the Pats are back in the Super Bowl. They Said It and The News With Coco.

Hour 1 - The crew are live from Loon for Snow Show #2. Just nine days away from the big game and ESPN has given Scheim newfound confidence in the Pats. How is Maye's shoulder, does it worry you.

The crew are live for Snow Show number 2 at Loon mountain this morning. Why does it take so long to clear the roads?

 Author James D. Paruk joins the podcast to talk about his book; Loon Lessons Uncommon Encounters with the Great Northern Diver.  Learn about the nature of the common loon, from biology to behavior, from one of the world's foremost observers of the revered waterbird.   Presented by Kinetico (kineticoMN.com/), Star Bank (star.bank/), FishUSA (fishusa.com/), Ebels Voyageur Houseboats (ebels.com/), & Disabled American Veterans of Minnesota (https://davmn.org/)

Send us a textMoney is moving up the mountain, and the Northeast is ready for it. We sit down with Tom Hooper of 603 Endurance to unpack how a new partnership with Marathon Sports unlocks bigger prize purses, stronger production, and a smarter sponsor model that gives each race its own brand identity. Sunapee Scramble returns as the U.S. Mountain Running Championship with a $30,000 purse from Brooks and Team USA selection on the line. Loon Mountain leans into its legendary Upper Walking Boss with $20,000 backed by Darn Tough and likely more on the way. Ragged brings a three-day stage race and a $30,000 purse from Altra, while Cranmore gets fresh momentum tied to a new trail-forward retail hub in North Conway.We go inside the business: why retail distribution changes the ROI for brands, how prize money can reshape athlete contracts, and whether this surge signals a sustainable path or a temporary splash. We talk logistics and legacy—permitting realities in New England, course character across Sunapee, Loon, Cranmore, Kismet, and Ragged—and the growing pipeline from NCAA track and cross-country to the mountains. If you care about the sport's future, you'll want the full take on appearance fees, what elites owe in promotion, and the rising urgency of credible anti-doping as purses climb.This is a candid, ground-level look at how trail running grows up without losing its edge: steep grades, slick roots, and real money on the line. Hit play, share it with a friend who loves mountain running, and leave a quick review so more people can find the show. Your feedback keeps these conversations going and helps the sport take its next step.Follow Tom Hooper - @tomhooper603Follow Six03 Endurance - @six03enduranceRegister for the Sunapee Scramble - SUNAPEERegister for the Loon Mountain Race - LOONRegister for the Ragged 75 Stage Race & 50K - RAGGEDFollow James on IG - @jameslauriello Follow the Steep Stuff Podcast on IG - @steepstuff_pod

Hij heeft z’n punt duidelijk gemaakt deze week: Amerikaans president Trump moet Groenland hebben voor z’n nationale veiligheid. Volgende week al zouden vertegenwoordigers uit Groenland, Denenmarken en de Verenigde Staten spoedoverleg houden over de toekomst van het grootste eiland ter wereld. Intussen zegt Trump dat hij het internationaal recht niet nodig heeft en hij misschien zal moeten kiezen tussen Groenland en de NAVO. Hoe snel kan het gaan? Welke manieren zijn er nog om de situatie te de-escaleren? En is het Trump echt om die veiligheid te doen, of speelt er toch vooral iets anders? Antwoorden op al deze vragen en meer krijg je samen met De 7-host Roan Van Eyck van Tijd-journalist Pieter Lambrecht en Clingendaal- en Egmont-experte Karen van Loon. Lees Pieters verdiepende stuk Waarom Trump Groenland per se wil inlijven, desnoods met geweld Luister naar onze Extra De Noordelijke IJszeeroute: een omstreden nieuwe handelsweg smelt open See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Comrades, welcome to the Asylum! I'm joined by Ada and Ruby from the Loon Call Podcast to discuss season 1 of Heated Rivalry! We talk joining the fandom, adapting romance, who fell first (Ilya or Shane), favorite scenes, and more. Spoilers and squealing abound. Enjoy the show! Listen to Loon Call; @looncallpod Connect with Ada: @adagetsliterary Connect with Ruby: @rubybarrettwrite   Heated Rivalry cinematography: Valentina Vee Romancing the Data episode   Subscribe! Follow! Rate! Review! Tell your friends and family! Bookshop.org Storefront: buy a book mentioned in the episode through this link and I earn a small commission Buy me coffee WRION merch! My feminist, sapphic, bookish Etsy shop! Instagram/Threads: @wereaditonenight TikTok: @wereaditonenight Facebook: We Read It One Night Email: wereaditonenight [at] gmail.com

We have our first Loon or Loonlet trivia of the year to see if Matt can get over the 60% line. We check in on some overseas Ramsay rumors that may impact who's on the Loons' touchline in 2026. And we end with a bedtime story for all the Loonlets out there.    BlueSky: @loonybinpodcast.bsky.social Dan Elias (@oyvey2you.bsky.social) Matt Leaf (@mnloonlet.bsky.social) Email: theloonybinpod@gmail.com Website: theloonybinpod.com Insta: instagram.com/theloonybinpod YouTube: youtube.com/@loonybinpodcast  

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Yoversion Podcast #148 – January 2026 with John Jones Special Guestmix: Mike Van Loon (Balearic Disco) TRACKLISTING Angie Stone – Wish I Didnt Miss You “Mozambo & Antdot Remix” // White Label Lenny Fontana Ft. Jasmine Lovett – If You Want Me // Karmic Power Records THE HOTSPOT Guy Burns, James Poole, Smokey Bubblin’ B – Temptation // DisOrder Records Anane – Let Me Be Your Fantasy “Blackchild Remix” // Nervous Records BACK IN THE BOX Timmy Regisford – Don't Worry // Shelter Lab 4 Michael Gray – The Spirit Moves // Sultra Sgt Slick – Make It Happen // Vicious 3-ON-THE-SPIN The Martinez Brothers – H2DAIZZO “Josh Baker Remix” // Defected Armand Van Helden, Duck Sauce, A-Trak – Can’t Stop “KiNK Remix” // DFTD Paul Johnson, Seth Troxler, HoneyLuv – Sex & The City “TB-203 Remix” // Tuskegee Daniel Steinberg – For the People // Arms & Legs Cavi – F The Disco // Too Many Rules Your SHOUT! (Danny Ryan, Acton) Mighty Dub Cats – Just Another Groove “Ashley Beedle’s Amalgamation Disco Edit” // Southern Fried Alcatraz – Giv Me Luv “Tenacious Remix” // CDR THE CLASSIC TRACK Lood, Masters At Work, Donell Rush – Shout-N-Out “Rocco Rodamaal DJ Dub Tool” // MAW Records Special Guestmix: Mike Van Loon (Balearic Disco) 1   ID – ID (Promo) 2   Prep & Eddie Chacon – Call It (Turbotito Remix) 3   Kraak & Smaak – Keep on Searching 4   Girls of the Internet/i am an island/Andres – Sleeping Sound (Andrés Remix) 5   Astels – All Night Long 6   Life On Planets – Club Burn 7   Collect 200 – She Waits 8   nocapz. – Love Somebody 9   ANOTR & TEED – Sound of You 10 Late Delivery, Bl Suede – Glam Life 11 Ben Westbeech, Obi Franky, Makez – REARRANGE YOURSELF 12. Wayne Snow, ANOTR, 3DDY – Hold On, Let Go Our January Podcast is now available You can subscribe & stream below from the following platforms iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/yoversion-records-podcast/id719089758?mt=2

We're joined by the 2025 Loonlet of the Year, John Rynders, as we discuss our New Year's ResoLOONtions. We're saying goodbye to the Loon's all time leading goal-scorer, Robin Lod, who joins our future rival instead of staying with us. And I'll ask the guys how much money they're willing to spend for some super fancy Fort Lauderdale grass.   BlueSky: @loonybinpodcast.bsky.social Dan Elias (@oyvey2you.bsky.social) Matt Leaf (@mnloonlet.bsky.social) Email: theloonybinpod@gmail.com Website: theloonybinpod.com Insta: instagram.com/theloonybinpod YouTube: youtube.com/@loonybinpodcast  

Welcome back to Birds of a Feather Talk Together! We are officially in full winter swing, and that means it's the perfect time to shine a spotlight on one of the most iconic cold-weather visitors out there — the Snowy Owl.If you've been anywhere near bird-Twitter or the local news, you may have heard about the pair of Snowy Owls in Chicago. These birds are stunning, unmistakable, and one of those species that gets everyone — even the non-birders — buzzing with excitement.We also answer a listener question about a Loon that was recently seen in the Chicago area. Join John Bates, Shannon Hackett, RJ Pole, and Amanda Pole!Here are links to our social and YouTube pages, give us a follow: YouTube Instagram TikTok BlueSky

We talk about the earth-shattering news that dropped this week … the Loons Coachella schedule. We dig into the cataclysmic news that just crossed our feeds … that Matus Kmet is on his way back. And we'll probably talk about some other things that happened that may or may not be currently making us nauseous.   (3:45) Loon or Loonlet Trivia (9:30) Quick Hits (26:05) Dayne Departs (59:25) Loon Droppings    ------------------   BlueSky: @loonybinpodcast.bsky.social Dan Elias (@oyvey2you.bsky.social) Matt Leaf (@mnloonlet.bsky.social) Email: theloonybinpod@gmail.com Website: theloonybinpod.com Insta: instagram.com/theloonybinpod YouTube: youtube.com/@loonybinpodcast  

John Henry and Fenway Sports Group officially sell the Pittsburgh Penguins and Maine sees an uptick in Arcand's favorite animal: the loon in the New England Nightly News.

We start to get our panic on as the lack of news about a Dayne St. Clair contract has us both in our feelings. We congratulate Shari Ballard even if we haven't been able to interview her ourselves. And we wonder if maybe it's time that FIFA just changes soccer to a game of quarters instead of halves.    (3:05) Loon or Loonlet Trivia (9:30) Quick Hits (23:30) Jared Stroud Talk (29:25) Dayne Panic (35:40) Loon Droppings    ------------------   BlueSky: @loonybinpodcast.bsky.social Dan Elias (@oyvey2you.bsky.social) Matt Leaf (@mnloonlet.bsky.social) Email: theloonybinpod@gmail.com Website: theloonybinpod.com Insta: instagram.com/theloonybinpod YouTube: youtube.com/@loonybinpodcast  

CEO (and 2025 Doug Hamilton Executive of the Year) Shari Ballard joins Zarek to talk through a historic 2025 season, the intersection of emotion and performance, and the 2027 league schedule change.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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We break down the World Cup draw and all the cringe that came with it. We let you know if we heard anything about Dayne's contract situation from the sources we don't have. And we'll give out our annual awards that are both straight-forward and a bit curved-backwards.    (7:10) Loon or Loonlet Trivia (12:00) MLS Cup Review (28:45) MNUFC Straight-Forward Awards (43:20) MNUFC Curved-Backwards Awards (59:10) Loon Droppings    ------------------   BlueSky: @loonybinpodcast.bsky.social Dan Elias (@oyvey2you.bsky.social) Matt Leaf (@mnloonlet.bsky.social) Email: theloonybinpod@gmail.com Website: theloonybinpod.com Insta: instagram.com/theloonybinpod YouTube: youtube.com/@loonybinpodcast

Put on your slippers, pour something sinful, and crawl under the cursed Christmas tree — because the entire damn Late Night Legends family showed up for this one.In our Holiday Horror Special, Charlie warms our cold black hearts with a “Home for the Holidays” ghost story, equal parts cozy and unsettling. Then K drags us headfirst into a conspiracy-theory showdown, a little game of true or false that turns way too competitive way too fast… which is exactly how we like it.Featuring the full squad: Frank, K, Charlie, Tim, Colin, Maria, and Ashley.It's festive. It's spooky. It's rowdy. It's everything December should be.Like, subscribe, and sacrifice a gingerbread cookie in our honor.Join the Discord:Here at the Late Night Legends, we think spooky season should last all year long! Join our spooky community to ask the Legends questions, and keep the conversation going! https://discord.gg/kESdgRH47U

I interviewed Jeroen van Loon about Life Needs Internet 2010–2025 on Wednesday, November 19, 2025 at IDFA DocLab in Amsterdam, Netherlands. This is a listener-supported podcast through the Voices of VR Patreon. Music: Fatality

Welcome to your weekly dose of true HedKandi Anthems!  We bring you the ultimate selection of house music, vocal house, nu-disco, funky house, and the occasional chill-out track every week! Follow us on social media: https://www.facebook.com/hedkandi https://www.instagram.com/hedkandi/ Join our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hedkandigroup TRACKLIST ⤵ HOUR 1 ******** 00:00:00 Dolos, Dr Packer - Night So Right (Dr Packer Remix) 00:05:09 Jay Caruso - Always There (Original Mix) 00:10:39 QWARTZ - The Call (Original Mix) 00:15:39 Soneec, Soultizer - Love & Happiness (Extended Mix) 00:20:41 Soul Avengerz - Reachin' (Extended Mix) 00:27:16 Andrea Tomei, Joshua - House Music Never Ends (Extended Mix) 00:32:00 Ethan Gray, Mandel Turner - Elevate Your Mind (Extended Mix) 00:35:03 Suki Soul - Can't Stop (Extended Mix) 00:41:18 Zetbee - You Know Everything (Original Mix) 00:45:56 Rubber People, Mario Cruz - In The Ghetto (Original) 00:49:30 DJ Mark Brickman, Venessa Jackson - Rise (2025 Refresh) 00:55:14 Oliver Dollar, Nils Ohrmann, Apropos - The New Is Here (Original Mix) HOUR 2 ******** 01:00:00 Duwayne Motley, Kelli Sae - Up For It All (Original Mix) 01:05:10 Gledd - Move Me (Extended Mix) 01:09:58 House Freakers - Feel The Heat (Extended Mix) 01:15:30 Louie Vega feat. Anané & Tony Touch - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life (LV Remix) 01:19:21 Maex, Samiro - What Is Salsa (CASSIMM Extended Remix) 01:24:10 Mia Moretti, Irma Thomas, Tiger Stripes - Safe With Me (Tiger Stripes Remix) 01:28:54 Basile de Suresnes - Romeo Is Not Dead 01:33:12 Jay Vegas, Olav Basoski - Clap Your Hands (Extended Mix) 01:39:00 Jay de Lys - Control (Original Mix) 01:44:02 Low Steppa, Rue Jay, Reza, Chuck Roberts - The Creator (Extended Mix) 01:49:41 FrescoEdits - Da Vibe (Disco Mix) 01:53:30 Makito - Hypnotizing (Original Mix)

Agent Cheri Van Loon from Marilyn's Agency joins Jesse to share real, practical insights about auditions, communication, materials, and what it truly means to take ownership of your acting career.Cheri brings passion, clarity, and zero fluff — she loves this industry and cares deeply about the actors she works with. In this episode, she breaks down exactly what she sees every day inside the audition and submission process.They cover:

We review the best and worst moments of the 2025 season for our Loons. We discuss the end of year roster decisions and what they mean for 2026. And I ask Matt if violent conduct is still violent conduct when it's also friendly fire.   (5:00) Loon or Loonlet Trivia (12:40) End of Year Roster Decisions (28:25) Best and Worst Moments of 2025 (53:15) Loon Droppings    ------------------   BlueSky: @loonybinpodcast.bsky.social Dan Elias (@oyvey2you.bsky.social) Matt Leaf (@mnloonlet.bsky.social) Email: theloonybinpod@gmail.com Website: theloonybinpod.com Insta: instagram.com/theloonybinpod YouTube: youtube.com/@loonybinpodcast  

0:00:00 Introduction Richard Saunders 0:04:14 3i Atlas Update As Comet 3i Atlas emerges from behind the sun, we take a look at the latest news from NASA that confirms the object is not in fact being piloted by space racing aliens. Will this stop the UFO crowd from posting nonsense on social media? Avi Loeb is a Fraud Part 2 - Prof. Dave https://youtu.be/lf9oBlkQQCo 0:16:40 The Loon from Canada The Pink Tax! Kate & Allie chat to Karen Bijkersma from Melbourne about her investigations into what has been called "The Pink Tax", a extra charge put on consumables aimed to extract more dollars out of women. The term comes about from the fact that some objects are identical for men and women apart from the colour, which is often pink. The colour pink should not mean more money at the register. https://karenbijkersma.com.au 0:40:42 The TROVE Archives A wander through the decades of digitised newspapers on a search for references to Naturopaths. Joining in this week's segment is Lara Benham. 1995.06.20 - Times - Victor Harbor, SA 1993.11.28 - Lewiston Morning Tribune http://www.trove.nla.gov.au Also Sydney Skeptics in the Pub "Why Smart Women Zone" live podcast recording - 4 December https://www.meetup.com/austskeptics  

We talk about the loss to San Diego that put an end to a mostly successful season. We start our planning early for next year's away travel. And we'll take a look at what a roster might look like for those extra cold weather games that are coming our way.    (6:20) Loon or Loonlet Trivia (12:00) Quick Hits (23:00) San Diego Review (51:35) 2026 Schedule Release (59:30) Loon Droppings    ------------------   BlueSky: @loonybinpodcast.bsky.social Dan Elias (@oyvey2you.bsky.social) Matt Leaf (@mnloonlet.bsky.social) Email: theloonybinpod@gmail.com Website: theloonybinpod.com Insta: instagram.com/theloonybinpod YouTube: youtube.com/@loonybinpodcast

Trond joins the show for a second time and we talk about getting stuck in the same patterns and what Trond has been doing to avoid that. He also shares about his experience tracking and trying to photograph Black Grouse and Capercaillie in a new area. Trond share a great story about photographing a Black-throated Loon in a very remote area and we chat about plenty of other things.

Welcome to your weekly dose of true HedKandi Anthems!  We bring you the ultimate selection of house music, vocal house, nu-disco, funky house, and the occasional chill-out track every week! Follow us on social media: https://www.facebook.com/hedkandi https://www.instagram.com/hedkandi/ Join our community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hedkandigroup TRACKLIST ⤵ HOUR 1 ******** 00:00:00 Astels - Black Stars 00:04:27 Astels - That Girl 00:01:18 Merlin Bobb, Mark Francis - Waiting on You (Remix Vocal) 00:12:27 DJ Scratch - Electric Stew (We Can Get Down) 00:17:28 Revival House Project, Phebe Edwards, Geo Gospel Choir - Think (Michael Gray Extended Remix) 00:22:30 Michael Gray, Phebe Edwards - Life Will Be (Extended Mix) 00:27:33 Nassim - In The Silence (Original Mix) 00:33:22 Blind Truth Feat. Tata And Toney - (Crazibiza House Of Prayers Let's Play House Vocal Mix) 00:38:03 HP Vince - My Special Man (Original Mix) 00:43:48 DJ Disciple - Turn It Around (Risk Assessment Remix Vox) 00:49:01 Peter Mac, Earl W. Green - Distant Lovers (Dj Spen and Reelsoul_remix) 00:54:12 Audiowhores, Angela Johnson - Touch The Ground (DJ Passion & George Jackson UK Remix Extended) HOUR 2 ******** 01:00:00 Foremost Poets, Johnny Dangerous - Beside Myself (Dave Lee Cowbell Party Mix) 01:05:53 Lenny Fontana, Jasmine Lovett - If You Want Me (Club Mix) 01:09:59 Sonny Chiba, Lucid Konversations - No More Illusions (Genuinely Blaq Mix) 01:14:22 Mary Pearce, Lovely Laura, Sophie Lloyd, GeO Gospel Choir, Revival House Project - Take Me To The River (Sophie Lloyd Extended Remix) 01:19:17 Dj Chus and Harry Romero - Celebrate Life (Extended Mix) 01:23:58 Platinum City feat Sara Kusi Freedom Express 01:29:32 Revival House Project, ALEXA PERL, Nambi - Deeper Love (Extended Mix) 01:34:38 Jaegerossa - Hey Zeus Children (John Morales M+M Mix) 01:41:14 Suki Soul - Can't Stop (Extended Mix) 01:47:46 Divine Discs, Jaegerossa - Two Spirits 01:53:47 DiscoGalactiX - Live Your Life

The Shop Girls are back to share how Quince cuts down costs and then is joined by Jerrod Scott from Rose and Loon.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We do everything we can to help you re-live that crazy and eventually AMAZING night at Allianz Field. We peak ahead to what lies around the corner for our Loons in the playoffs. And we'll brainstorm what someone should do with the NW corner of Snelling and University, after the CVS is inevitably is demolished.     (4:05) Loon or Loonlet Trivia (9:25) Quick Hits (17:40) Seattle Game 3 Review (1:19:50) Loon Droppings    ------------------   BlueSky: @loonybinpodcast.bsky.social Dan Elias (@oyvey2you.bsky.social) Matt Leaf (@mnloonlet.bsky.social) Email: theloonybinpod@gmail.com Website: theloonybinpod.com Insta: instagram.com/theloonybinpod YouTube: youtube.com/@loonybinpodcast  

For nearly four decades, MPR News reporter Dan Gunderson told stories that remind us how much meaning can be found in everyday life. He's covered floods and farming, faith and politics, the changing landscape of rural communities — and the people who live there.  But what's made Dan's work so memorable isn't just what he's covered. It's how he's covered it — with patience, curiosity, and a deep respect for the people he meets along the way. Now, after 38 years with MPR News, Dan is retiring. At an event in Moorhead in late October, MPR News guest host Catharine Richert talked with Gunderson about storytelling, some of the people he's met over the years and what he's discovered about Minnesota along the way. Guest:Dan Gunderson is a reporter based in Moorhead. He covers general news for a wide swath of western Minnesota and eastern North Dakota with a focus on the environment, agriculture and Indian Country. He has reported for MPR News since 1987. 2025 Dan Gunderson, longtime MPR journalist and master Minnesota storyteller, retires 2025 Minnesota minister rediscovers his faith among people in need 2025 In this west-central Minnesota town, fiddle jams draw players from ages 3 to 86 2025 Minnesota woman on a quest to preserve stories of disappearing towns 2025 ‘Loon lady' turns passion into action to protect Minnesota's iconic bird 2011 Researchers investigating movement of black bears into new habitats 2007 Moorhead orchestra students rock 2001 The land of the dancing tractors Subscribe to the MPR News with Angela Davis podcast on: Apple Podcasts, Spotify or RSS.Use the audio player above to listen to the full conversation.

We get into everything that happened during that Game 2 loss late last night. We review the most recent release of the team's salary numbers including how much the new guys are making. And we discuss where one should and should not place their jacket when peeing at a urinal.    (8:20) Loon or Loonlet Trivia (14:00) Quick Hits (28:50) Seattle Game 2 Review (48:15) Seattle Game 3 Preview (52:20) Loon Droppings    ------------------   BlueSky: @loonybinpodcast.bsky.social Dan Elias (@oyvey2you.bsky.social) Matt Leaf (@mnloonlet.bsky.social) Email: theloonybinpod@gmail.com Website: theloonybinpod.com Insta: instagram.com/theloonybinpod YouTube: youtube.com/@loonybinpodcast  

WhoAlan Henceroth, President and Chief Operating Officer of Arapahoe Basin, Colorado – Al runs the best ski area-specific executive blog in America – check it out:Recorded onMay 19, 2025About Arapahoe BasinClick here for a mountain stats overviewOwned by: Alterra Mountain Company, which also owns:Pass access* Ikon Pass: unlimited* Ikon Base Pass: unlimited access from opening day to Friday, Dec. 19, then five total days with no blackouts from Dec. 20 until closing day 2026Base elevation* 10,520 feet at bottom of Steep Gullies* 10,780 feet at main baseSummit elevation* 13,204 feet at top of Lenawee Mountain on East Wall* 12,478 feet at top of Lazy J Tow (connector between Lenawee Express six-pack and Zuma quad)Vertical drop* 1,695 feet lift-served – top of Lazy J Tow to main base* 1,955 feet lift-served, with hike back up to lifts – top of Lazy J Tow to bottom of Steep Gullies* 2,424 feet hike-to – top of Lenawee Mountain to Main BaseSkiable Acres: 1,428Average annual snowfall:* Claimed: 350 inches* Bestsnow.net: 308 inchesTrail count: 147 – approximate terrain breakdown: 24% double-black, 49% black, 20% intermediate, 7% beginnerLift count: 9 (1 six-pack, 1 high-speed quad, 3 fixed-grip quads, 1 double, 2 carpets, 1 ropetow)Why I interviewed himWe can generally splice U.S. ski centers into two categories: ski resort and ski area. I'll often use these terms interchangeably to avoid repetition, but they describe two very different things. The main distinction: ski areas rise directly from parking lots edged by a handful of bunched utilitarian structures, while ski resorts push parking lots into the next zipcode to accommodate slopeside lodging and commerce.There are a lot more ski areas than ski resorts, and a handful of the latter present like the former, with accommodations slightly off-hill (Sun Valley) or anchored in a near-enough town (Bachelor). But mostly the distinction is clear, with the defining question being this: is this a mountain that people will travel around the world to ski, or one they won't travel more than an hour to ski?Arapahoe Basin occupies a strange middle. Nothing in the mountain's statistical profile suggests that it should be anything other than a Summit County locals hang. It is the 16th-largest ski area in Colorado by skiable acres, the 18th-tallest by lift-served vertical drop, and the eighth-snowiest by average annual snowfall. The mountain runs just six chairlifts and only two detachables. Beginner terrain is limited. A-Basin has no base area lodging, and in fact not much of a base area at all. Altitude, already an issue for the Colorado ski tourist, is amplified here, where the lifts spin from nearly 11,000 feet. A-Basin should, like Bridger Bowl in Montana (upstream from Big Sky) or Red River in New Mexico (across the mountain from Taos) or Sunlight in Colorado (parked between Aspen and I-70), be mostly unknown beside its heralded big-name neighbors (Keystone, Breck, Copper).And it sort of is, but also sort of isn't. Like tiny (826-acre) Aspen Mountain, A-Basin transcends its statistical profile. Skiers know it, seek it, travel for it, cross it off their lists like a snowy Eiffel Tower. Unlike Aspen, A-Basin has no posse of support mountains, no grided downtown spilling off the lifts, no Kleenex-level brand that stands in for skiing among non-skiers. And yet Vail tried buying the bump in 1997, and Alterra finally did in 2024. Meanwhile, nearby Loveland, bigger, taller, snowier, higher, easier to access with its trip-off-the-interstate parking lots, is still ignored by tourists and conglomerates alike.Weird. What explains A-Basin's pull? Onetime and future Storm guest Jackson Hogen offers, in his Snowbird Secrets book, an anthropomorphic explanation for that Utah powder dump's aura: As it turns out, everyone has a story for how they came to discover Snowbird, but no one knows the reason. Some have the vanity to think they picked the place, but the wisest know the place picked them.That is the secret that Snowbird has slipped into our subconscious; deep down, we know we were summoned here. We just have to be reminded of it to remember, an echo of the Platonic notion that all knowledge is remembrance. In the modern world we are so divorced from our natural selves that you would think we'd have lost the power to hear a mountain call us. And indeed we have, but such is the enormous reach of this place that it can still stir the last seed within us that connects us to the energy that surrounds us every day yet we do not see. The resonance of that tiny, vibrating seed is what brings us here, to this extraordinary place, to stand in the heart of the energy flow.Yeah I don't know, Man. We're drifting into horoscope territory here. But I also can't explain why we all like to do This Dumb Thing so much that we'll wrap our whole lives around it. So if there is some universe force, what Hogen calls “vibrations” from Hidden Peak's quartz, drawing skiers to Snowbird, could there also be some proton-kryptonite-laserbeam s**t sucking us all toward A-Basin? If there's a better explanation, I haven't found it.What we talked aboutThe Beach; keeping A-Basin's whole ski footprint open into May; Alterra buys the bump – “we really liked the way Alterra was doing things… and letting the resorts retain their identity”; the legacy of former owner Dream; how hardcore, no-frills ski area A-Basin fits into an Alterra portfolio that includes high-end resorts such as Deer Valley and Steamboat; “you'd be surprised how many people from out of state ski here too”; Ikon as Colorado sampler pack (or not); local reaction to Alterra's purchase – “I think it's fair that there was anxiety”; balancing the wild ski cycle of over-the-top peak days and soft periods; parking reservations; going unlimited on the full Ikon Pass and how parking reservations play in – “we spent a ridiculous amount of time talking about it”; the huge price difference between Epic and Ikon and how that factors into the access calculus; why A-Basin still sells a single-mountain season pass; whether reciprocal partnerships with Monarch and Silverton will remain in place; “I've been amazed at how few things I've been told to do” by Alterra; A-Basin's dirt-cheap early-season pass; why early season is “a more competitive time” than it used to be; why A-Basin left Mountain Collective; Justice Department anti-trust concerns around Alterra's A-Basin purchase – “it never was clear to me what the concerns were”; breaking down A-Basin's latest U.S. Forest Service masterplan – “everything in there, we hope to do”; a parking lot pulse gondola and why that makes sense over shuttles; why A-Basin plans a two-lift system of beginner machines; why should A-Basin care about beginner terrain?; is beginner development is related to Ikon Pass membership?; what it means that the MDP designs for 700 more skiers per day; assessing the Lenawee Express sixer three seasons in; why A-Basin sold the old Lenawee lift to independent Sunlight, Colorado; A-Basin's patrol unionizing; and 100 percent renewable energy.What I got wrong* I said that A-Basin was the only mountain that had been caught up in antitrust issues, but that's inaccurate: when S-K-I and LBO Enterprises merged into American Skiing Company in 1996, the U.S. Justice Department compelled the combined company to sell Cranmore and Waterville Valley, both in New Hampshire. Waterville Valley remains independent. Cranmore stayed independent for a while, and has since 2010 been owned by Fairbank Group, which also owns Jiminy Peak in Massachusetts and operates Bromley, Vermont.* I said that A-Basin's $259 early-season pass, good for unlimited access from opening day through Dec. 25, “was like one day at Vail,” which is sort of true and sort of not. Vail Mountain's day-of lift ticket will hit $230 from Nov. 14 to Dec. 11, then increase to $307 or $335 every day through Christmas. All Resorts Epic Day passes, which would get skiers on the hill for any of those dates, currently sell for between $106 and $128 per day. Unlimited access to Vail Mountain for that full early-season period would require a full Epic Pass, currently priced at $1,121.* This doesn't contradict anything we discussed, but it's worth noting some parking reservations changes that A-Basin implemented following our conversation. Reservations will now be required on weekends only, and from Jan. 3 to May 3, a reduction from 48 dates last winter to 36 for this season. The mountain will also allow skiers to hold four reservations at once, doubling last year's limit of two.Why now was a good time for this interviewOne of the most striking attributes of modern lift-served skiing is how radically different each ski area is. Panic over corporate hegemony power-stamping each child mountain into snowy McDonald's clones rarely survives past the parking lot. Underscoring the point is neighboring ski areas, all over America, that despite the mutually intelligible languages of trail ratings and patrol uniforms and lift and snowgun furniture, and despite sharing weather patterns and geologic origins and local skier pools, feel whole-cut from different eras, cultures, and imaginations. The gates between Alta and Snowbird present like connector doors between adjoining hotel rooms but actualize as cross-dimensional Mario warpzones. The 2.4-mile gondola strung between the Alpine Meadows and Olympic sides of Palisades Tahoe may as well connect a baseball stadium with an opera house. Crossing the half mile or so between the summits of Sterling at Smugglers' Notch and Spruce Peak at Stowe is a journey of 15 minutes and five decades. And Arapahoe Basin, elder brother of next-door Keystone, resembles its larger neighbor like a bat resembles a giraffe: both mammals, but of entirely different sorts. Same with Sugarbush and Mad River Glen, Vermont; Sugar Bowl, Donner Ski Ranch, and Boreal, California; Park City and Deer Valley, Utah; Killington and Pico, Vermont; Highlands and Nub's Nob, Michigan; Canaan Valley and Timberline and Nordic-hybrid White Grass, West Virginia; Aspen's four Colorado ski areas; the three ski areas sprawling across Mt. Hood's south flank; and Alpental and its clump of Snoqualmie sisters across the Washington interstate. Proximity does not equal sameness.One of The Storm's preoccupations is with why this is so. For all their call-to-nature appeal, ski areas are profoundly human creations, more city park than wildlife preserve. They are sculpted, managed, manicured. Even the wildest-feeling among them – Mount Bohemia, Silverton, Mad River Glen – are obsessively tended to, ragged by design.A-Basin pulls an even neater trick: a brand curated for rugged appeal, scaffolded by brand-new high-speed lifts and a self-described “luxurious European-style bistro.” That the Alterra Mountain Company-owned, megapass pioneer floating in the busiest ski county in the busiest ski state in America managed to retain its rowdy rap even as the onetime fleet of bar-free double chairs toppled into the recycling bin is a triumph of branding.But also a triumph of heart. A-Basin as Colorado's Alta or Taos or Palisades is a title easily ceded to Telluride or Aspen Highlands, similarly tilted high-alpiners. But here it is, right beside buffed-out Keystone, a misunderstood mountain with its own wild side but a fair-enough rap as an approachable landing zone for first-time Rocky Mountain explorers westbound out of New York or Ohio. Why are A-Basin and Keystone so different? The blunt drama of A-Basin's hike-in terrain helps, but it's more enforcer than explainer. The real difference, I believe, is grounded in the conductor orchestrating this mad dance.Since Henceroth sat down in the COO chair 20 years ago, Keystone has had nine president-general manager equivalents. A-Basin was already 61 years old in 2005, giving it a nice branding headstart on younger Keystone, born in 1970. But both had spent nearly two decades, from 1978 to 1997, co-owned by a dogfood conglomerate that often marketed them as one resort, and the pair stayed glued together on a multimountain pass for a couple of decades afterward.Henceroth, with support and guidance from the real-estate giant that owned A-Basin in the Ralston-Purina-to-Alterra interim, had a series of choices to make. A-Basin had only recently installed snowmaking. There was no lift access to Zuma Bowl, no Beavers. The lift system consisted of three double chairs and two triples. Did this aesthetic minimalism and pseudo-independence define A-Basin? Or did the mountain, shaped by the generations of leaders before Henceroth, hold some intangible energy and pull, that thing we recognize as atmosphere, culture, vibe? Would The Legend lose its duct-taped edge if it:* Expanded 400 mostly low-angle acres into Zuma Bowl (2007)* Joined Vail Resorts' Epic Pass (2009)* Installed the mountain's first high-speed lift (Black Mountain Express in 2010)* Expand 339 additional acres into the Beavers (2018), and service that terrain with an atypical-for-Colorado 1,501-vertical-foot fixed-grip lift* Exit the Epic Pass following the 2018-19 ski season* Immediately join Mountain Collective and Ikon as a multimountain replacement (2019)* Ditch a 21-year-old triple chair for the mountain's first high-speed six-pack (2022)* Sell to Alterra Mountain Company (2024)* Require paid parking reservations on high-volume days (2024)* Go unlimited on the Ikon Pass and exit Mountain Collective (2025)* Release an updated USFS masterplan that focuses largely on the novice ski experience (2025)That's a lot of change. A skier booted through time from Y2K to October 2025 would examine that list and conclude that Rad Basin had been tamed. But ski a dozen laps and they'd say well not really. Those multimillion upgrades were leashed by something priceless, something human, something that kept them from defining what the mountain is. There's some indecipherable alchemy here, a thing maybe not quite as durable as the mountain itself, but rooted deeper than the lift towers strung along it. It takes a skilled chemist to cook this recipe, and while they'll never reveal every secret, you can visit the restaurant as many times as you'd like.Why you should ski Arapahoe BasinWe could do a million but here are nine:1) $: Two months of early-season skiing costs roughly the same as A-Basin's neighbors charge for a single day. A-Basin's $259 fall pass is unlimited from opening day through Dec. 25, cheaper than a Dec. 20 day-of lift ticket at Breck ($281), Vail ($335), Beaver Creek ($335), or Copper ($274), and not much more than Keystone ($243). 2) Pali: When A-Basin tore down the 1,329-vertical-foot, 3,520-foot-long Pallavicini double chair, a 1978 Yan, in 2020, they replaced it with a 1,325-vertical-foot, 3,512-foot-long Leitner-Poma double chair. It's one of just a handful of new doubles installed in America over the past decade, underscoring a rare-in-modern-skiing commitment to atmosphere, experience, and snow preservation over uphill capacity. 3) The newest lift fleet in the West: The oldest of A-Basin's six chairlifts, Zuma, arrived brand-new in 2007.4) Wall-to-wall: when I flew into Colorado for a May 2025 wind-down, five ski areas remained open. Despite solid snowpack, Copper, Breck, and Winter Park all spun a handful of lifts on a constrained footprint. But A-Basin and Loveland still ran every lift, even over the Monday-to-Thursday timeframe of my visit.5) The East Wall: It's like this whole extra ski area. Not my deal as even skiing downhill at 12,500 feet hurts, but some of you like this s**t:6) May pow: I mean yeah I did kinda just get lucky but damn these were some of the best turns I found all year (skiing with A-Basin Communications Manager Shayna Silverman):7) The Beach: the best ski area tailgate in North America (sorry, no pet dragons allowed - don't shoot the messenger):8) The Beavers: Just glades and glades and glades (a little crunchy on this run, but better higher up and the following day):9) It's a ski area first: In a county of ski resorts, A-Basin is a parking-lots-at-the-bottom-and-not-much-else ski area. It's spare, sparse, high, steep, and largely exposed. Skiers are better at self-selecting than we suppose, meaning the ability level of the average A-Basin skier is more Cottonwoods than Connecticut. That impacts your day in everything from how the liftlines flow to how the bumps form to how many zigzaggers you have to dodge on the down.Podcast NotesOn the dates of my visit We reference my last A-Basin visit quite a bit – for context, I skied there May 6 and 7, 2025. Both nice late-season pow days.On A-Basin's long seasonsIt's surprisingly difficult to find accurate open and close date information for most ski areas, especially before 2010 or so, but here's what I could cobble together for A-Basin - please let me know if you have a more extensive list, or if any of this is wrong:On A-Basin's ownership timelineArapahoe Basin probably gets too much credit for being some rugged indie. Ralston-Purina, then-owners of Keystone, purchased A-Basin in 1978, then added Breckenridge to the group in 1993 before selling the whole picnic basket to Vail in 1997. The U.S. Justice Department wouldn't let the Eagle County operator have all three, so Vail flipped Arapahoe to a Canadian real estate empire, then called Dundee, some months later. That company, which at some point re-named itself Dream, pumped a zillion dollars into the mountain before handing it off to Alterra last year.On A-Basin leaving Epic PassA-Basin self-ejected from Epic Pass in 2019, just after Vail maxed out Colorado by purchasing Crested Butte and before they fully invaded the East with the Peak Resorts purchase. Arapahoe Basin promptly joined Mountain Collective and Ikon, swapping unlimited-access on four varieties of Epic Pass for limited-days products. Henceroth and I talked this one out during our 2022 pod, and it's a fascinating case study in building a better business by decreasing volume.On the price difference between Ikon and Epic with A-Basin accessConcerns about A-Basin hurdling back toward the overcrowded Epic days by switching to Ikon's unlimited tier tend to overlook this crucial distinction: Vail sold a 2018-19 version of the Epic Pass that included unlimited access to Keystone and A-Basin for an early-bird rate of $349. The full 2025-26 Ikon Pass debuted at nearly four times that, retailing for $1,329, and just ramped up to $1,519.On Alterra mountains with their own season passesWhile all Alterra-owned ski areas (with the exception of Deer Valley), are unlimited on the full Ikon Pass and nine are unlimited with no blackouts on Ikon Base, seven of those sell their own unlimited season pass that costs less than Base. The sole unlimited season pass for Crystal, Mammoth, Palisades Tahoe, Steamboat, Stratton, and Sugarbush is a full Ikon Pass, and the least-expensive unlimited season pass for Solitude is the Ikon Base. Deer Valley leads the nation with its $4,100 unlimited season pass. See the Alterra chart at the top of this article for current season pass prices to all of the company's mountains.On A-Basin and Schweitzer pass partnershipsAlterra has been pretty good about permitting its owned ski areas to retain historic reciprocal partners on their single-mountain season passes. For A-Basin, this means three no-blackout days at Monarch and two unguided days at Silverton. Up at Schweitzer, passholders get three midweek days each at Whitewater, Mt. Hood Meadows, Castle Mountain, Loveland, and Whitefish. None of these ski areas are on Ikon Pass, and the benefit is only stapled to A-Basin- or Schweitzer-specific season passes.On the Mountain Collective eventI talk about Mountain Collective as skiing's most exclusive country club. Nothing better demonstrates that characterization than this podcast I recorded at the event last fall, when in around 90 minutes I had conversations with the top leaders of Boyne Resorts, Snowbird, Aspen, Jackson Hole, Sun Valley, Snowbasin, Grand Targhee, and many more.On Mountain Collective and Ikon overlapThe Mountain Collective-Ikon overlap is kinda nutso:On Pennsylvania skiingIn regards to the U.S. Justice Department grilling Alterra on its A-Basin acquisition, it's still pretty stupid that the agency allowed Vail Resorts to purchase eight of the 19 public chairlift-served ski areas in Pennsylvania without a whisper of protest. These eight ski areas almost certainly account for more than half of all skier visits in a state that typically ranks sixth nationally for attendance. Last winter, the state's 2.6 million skier visits accounted for more days than vaunted ski states New Hampshire (2.4 million), Washington (2.3), Montana (2.2), Idaho (2.1). or Oregon (2.0). Only New York (3.4), Vermont (4.2), Utah (6.5), California (6.6), and Colorado (13.9) racked up more.On A-Basin's USFS masterplanNothing on the scale of Zuma or Beavers inbound, but the proposed changes would tap novice terrain that has always existed but never offered a good access point for beginners:On pulse gondolasA-Basin's proposed pulse gondola, should it be built, would be just the sixth such lift in America, joining machines at Taos, Northstar, Steamboat, Park City, and Snowmass. Loon plans to build a pulse gondola in 2026.On mid-mountain beginner centersBig bad ski resorts have attempted to amp up family appeal in recent years with gondola-serviced mid-mountain beginner centers, which open gentle, previously hard-to-access terrain to beginners. This was the purpose of mid-stations off Jackson Hole's Sweetwater Gondola and Big Sky's new-for-this-year Explorer Gondola. A-Basin's gondy (not the parking lot pulse gondola, but the one terminating at Sawmill Flats in the masterplan image above), would provide up and down lift access allowing greenies to lap the new detach quad above it.The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

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