Podcasts about Marble Mountain

WhoSusan Cross, Vice President of Operations at Aspen Skiing Company (and former Mountain Manager of Snowmass)Recorded onNovember 14, 2025 - which was well before I traveled to Snowmass and chased Cross around a bit in the pow. There she is tiny in the distance:About Aspen Skiing CompanyAspen Skiing Company (Skico) is part of something called Aspen One. Don't ask me what that is because even though they rolled it out two years ago I still have no idea what they're talking about. All I know or care about is that they own four ski areas and here is what I know about them:Don't be fooled by the scale of the map above - at 3,342 acres, Snowmass is larger than Aspen Mountain, Buttermilk, and Aspen Highlands combined. The monster 4,400-foot vert means these lifts are massively shrunken to fit the map - Snowmass operates three of the 10 longest chairlifts in America, and seven chairlifts over one mile long:You can't ski or ride a lift between the four mountains, but free shuttles connect them all. Aspen Mountain, Highlands, and Buttermilk are all bunched together near town, and Snowmass is a short drive (15 to 20 minutes if traffic is clear and dependent upon which base area you want to hit):Why I interviewed herAmerican ski areas will often re-use chairlifts or snowcats that other operators have outgrown. Aspen Mountain re-used a whole town.In 1879, Aspen the city didn't exist, and by 1890 more than 5,000 people lived there. They came for silver, not snow. In less than a decade they laid out the Victorian street grid of brick and wood-framed buildings using hand tools and horses, with the Roaring Fork River as their supply road.Aspen's population collapsed in the economic depressions of the 1890s and didn't rebound to 5,000 for 100 years. The 1940 Census counted 777 residents. That was 16 years before the first chairlift rose up Ajax, a perfect ski mountain above an intact but semi-abandoned town made pointless by history.It was an amazing coincidence, really. Americans would never build a ski town on purpose. That's where the parking lots go. But hey it all worked out: Aspen evolved into a ski town that offset its European walk-to-the-chairlifts sensibility with a hard-coded American refusal to expand the historic street grid in favor of protectionism and mansion-building. The contemporary result is one of the world's most expensive real estate markets cosplaying as a quaint ski town, a lively and walkable mixed-use community of the sort that we idealize but refuse to build more of. Aspen's population is now around 7,000, most of whom live there by benefit of longevity, subsidy, inheritance, or extreme wealth. The city's median household income is just over $50,000. The median home price is $9.5 million. Anyone clinging to the illusion that Aspen is an actual ski town should consider that it took 25 years to approve and build the Hero's chairlift. Imagine what the fellows who built this whole city in half a decade without the benefit of electricity or cement trucks or paved roads would make of that.The illusory city, however, is a dynamic separate from the skiing. Aspen, despite its somewhat dated lift fleet, remains one of America's best small ski mountains. But it is small, and, with no green terrain and barely any blues, the ski area lacks the substance and scale to draw tourists west of Summit County and Vail.Sister mountain Snowmass does that. And while Snowmass did not benefit from an already-built town at its base, it did benefit from not having one, in that the mountain could evolve with a purpose and speed that Ajax, boxed in by geography and politics, never could. Snowmass has built 13 new aerial lifts this century, including the two-station, mountain-redefining Elk Camp Gondola; the Village Express six-pack, which is the fourth-longest chairlift in America; and, in just the past two years, a considerably lengthened Coney high-speed quad and a new six-pack to replace the Elk Camp chairlift.I've focused on Aspen's story a bit over the years (including this 2021 podcast with former Skico CEO Mike Kaplan), but probably not enough. The four Aspen mountains are some of the most important in American skiing, even if visitation doesn't quite match their status as skiing word-association champion among non-skiers (more on that below). Aspen, a leader not just in skiing but in housing, the environment, and culture, carries narrative heft, and the company's status as favored property of Alterra part-owner Henry Crown hints at deeper influence than Skico likely takes credit for. Aspen, like Big Sky and Deer Valley and Sun Valley, is rapidly emerging as one of the new titans of American skiing, unleashing a modernization drive that should lead, as Cross says in our conversation, to an average of at least one new lift per year across the portfolio. Snowmass' 2023 U.S. Forest Service masterplan envisions a fully modern mountain with snowmaking to the summit. Necessary and exciting as that all is, forthcoming updates to the dated masterplans at Aspen Highlands (2013) and Buttermilk (2008), could, Skico officials tell me, offer a complete rethinking of what Aspen-Snowmass is and how the ski areas orbit one another as a unit.And they do need to rethink the whole package. Challenging Skico's pre-eminence in the Circle of American Ski Gods are many obstacles, including but not limited to: an address that's just a bit remote for Denver to bother with or tourists to comprehend; a rinky-dink airport that can't land a paper plane; an only-come-if-you-have-nine-houses rap on the affordability matrix; a toxic combination of one of America's most expensive season passes and most expensive walk-up lift tickets; and national pass partners who do a poor job making it clear that Aspen is not one ski area but four.A lot to overcome, but I think they'll figure it out. The skiing is too good not to. What we talked about“I thought I had found Heaven” upon arrival in Aspen; Aspen in the 1990s; $200 a month to live in Carbondale; “as soon as you go up on the lifts, the mountain hasn't changed”; when Skico purchased formerly independent Aspen Highlands; Highlands pre-detachable lifts; four ski areas working (and not), as one ski resort; why there is “minimal sharing” of employees between the four mountains; why “two winter seasons, and then I was going back to Boston” didn't quite work out; why “total guilt sets in” if Cross misses a day of skiing and how she “deliberately” makes “at least a couple of runs” happen every day of the winter and encourages everyone else to do the same; Long Shot in the morning; the four pods of Snowmass; why tourists tend to lock onto one section of the mountain; “a lot of people don't realize their lift ticket is good for the four mountains”; “there's plenty of room to spread out and have a blast” even at busy Snowmass; defining the four mountains without typecasting them; no seriously there are no green runs on Aspen Mountain; the new Elk Camp six-pack; why Elk Camp doesn't terminate at the top of Burnt Mountain; why Elk Camp doesn't have the fancy carriers that came with 2024's new Coney Express lift; why Snowmass opted not to add bubbles to its six-packs; how Coney Express changed how skiers use Snowmass; why Coney is a quad rather than a six; why skiers can't unload at the Coney Express mid-station (and couldn't load last season); how Coney ended up with a mid-station and two bends along the liftline; the hazards of bending chairlifts and lessons learned from Alta's Supreme debacle; why Snowmass replaced the Cirque Poma with a T-bar (and not a chairlift); which mountain purchased the old Poma; Aspen's history of selling lifts and how the old Elk Camp wound up at Powderhorn ski area; where Skico had considered moving the Elk Camp quad; “we want everybody to stay in business”; why Snowmass didn't sell or relocate the Coney Glade lift; prioritizing future chairlift upgrades; the debate over whether to replace Elk Camp or Alpine Springs first, and why Elk Camp won; “what we're trying to do is at least one lift a year across the four mountains”; a photobomb from my cat; why the relatively new Village Express lift is a replacement candidate and where that lift could move; why we're unlikely to see the proposed Burnt Mountain chairlift anytime soon; and the new megalift that could rise on Aspen Mountain this summer.What I got wrong* I said that Breck had “T-bars serving their high peaks,” which is incorrect. In fact, Breck runs chairlifts close to the summits of Peak 8 (Imperial Superchair, the highest chairlift in North America), and Peak 6 (Kensho Superchair). I was thinking, however, of the Horseshoe T-Bar, an incredible high-alpine machine that I rode recently (it lands below Imperial Superchair on Peak 8).* I said that Maverick Mountain, Montana, was running a “1960-something” Riblet double. The lift dates to 1969, and is slated for replacement by Aspen Mountain's old Gent's Ridge fixed-grip quad, which Skico removed in 2024.* I referred to the Sheer Bliss chairlift as “Super Bliss,” which I think was fallout from over-exposure to Breck, where 12 of the chairlifts are named [SOMETHING] Superchair or some similar name.Why you should ski Aspen-SnowmassWhy do we ski Colorado? In some ways, it's a dumb question. We ski Colorado because everyone skis Colorado: the state's resorts account for 20 to 25 percent of annual U.S. skier visits, inbounds skiable acreage, and detachable chairlifts. Colorado is so synonymous with skiing that the state basically is skiing from the point of view of the outside world, especially to non-skiers who, challenged to name a ski resort, would probably come up with Vail or Aspen.But among well-traveled skiers, Colorado is Taylor Swift. Talented, yes, but a bit too obvious and sell-your-kidneys expensive. There's a lot more music out there: Utah gets more snow, Idaho and Montana have fewer people, B.C.'s Powder Highway has both of those things. Europe is cheaper (well, everywhere is cheaper). Colorado is only home to 26 public, lift-served ski areas, and only two of the 10 largest in America. Only seven Colorado ski areas rank among the nation's 50 snowiest by average annual snowfall. Getting there is a hassle. That awful airport. That stupid road. So many Texans. So many New Yorkers. Alternate, Man!But we all go anyway. And here's why: Colorado ski areas claim 14 of the 20 highest base areas in North America, and 16 of the 20 highest summits. What that means is that, unlike in Tahoe or Park City or Idaho, it never rains. Temperatures rarely top freezing. That means the snow that falls stays, and stays nice. Even in a mediocre Rocky Mountain winter – like this one – Colorado is able to deliver a consistent and predictable trail footprint in a way that no other U.S. ski state can match. Add in an abundance of approachable, intermediate-oriented ski terrain, and it's clear why America's two largest ski area operators center their multi-mountain pass empires in Colorado.Which brings us back to the thing most skiers hate the most about Colorado skiing: other skiers. There are just so many of them. And they all planned the same vacation. For the same time.But there is a back door. Around half of Colorado's 12 to 14 million annual skier visits occur at just five ski areas: Vail Mountain, Breck, Keystone, Copper, and Steamboat – often but not always strictly in that order. Next comes Winter Park, then Beaver Creek. And all the way down at number eight for Colorado annual skier visits is Snowmass.Snowmass' 771,259 skier visits is still a lot of skier visits. But consider some additional stats: Snowmass is the third-largest ski area in Colorado and the 11th-largest in America. From a skier visits-to-skiable-acreage ratio, it comes in way below the state's other 2,000-plus-acre ski areas (save Telluride, which is even more remote than Aspen):Why is that? The map explains it: Snowmass, and Aspen in general, lost the I-70 sweepstakes. They're too far west, too far off the interstate (so is Steamboat, but at least they have a real airport).Snowmass is worth the extra drive time. I-70 through Glenwood Canyon is slow-going but gorgeous, and the 40 miles of Colorado 82 after the interstate turnoff barely qualify as mountain driving – four lanes most of the way, no tight turns, some congestion but only if you're arriving in the morning. A roundabout or two and there you are at Snowmass.And here's what that extra two hours of driving gets you: all the benefits of Colorado skiing absent most of its drawbacks. Goldilocks Mountain. Here you'll find the fourth-highest lift-served summit in American skiing, the second-tallest vertical drop, and a dizzying, dazzling modern lift fleet spinning 20 lifts, including 9 detachables and a gondola. You'll find glorious ever-cruisers, tree-dotted and infinite; long bumpers twisting off High Alpine; comically approachable green zones at the village and mid-mountain. If Campground double is open, you can sample Colorado skiing circa 1975, alone in the big empty lapping the long, slow lift. And since the Brobots hate Snowmass, the high-altitude Hanging Valley and Cirque Headwall expert zones are always empty.That's one of four mountains. Towering, no-greens-for-real Aspen Mountain and Aspen Highlands are as rugged and wicked as anything a Colorado chairlift can drop you onto. And Buttermilk is just delightful – 2,000 vertical feet of no-stress-with-the-9-year-old, with fast lifts back to the top all day long.Podcast NotesOn Sugarbush and Mad River GlenI always like to make this point for western partisans: there is eastern skiing that stacks up well against the average western ski experience. Most of it is in northern Vermont, and two of the best, terrain-wise, are Alterra-owned Sugarbush - home of the longest chairlift in the world - and co-op-owned Mad River Glen, which still spins the only single chair in the lower 48. Here's Sugarbush:Mad River Glen is right next door. Just keep going looker's right off Mt. Ellen:On pre-Skico HighlandsWhoa that's a lot of lifts. And they're almost all doubles and Pomas.On Joe HessionHession is founder and CEO of Snow Partners, which owns Mountain Creek ski area, the Big Snow indoor ski ramp in New Jersey, Snow Cloud resort-management software, the Snow Triple Play Pass, and the Terrain Based Learning concept that you see in beginner areas all over America. He's been on the pod a few times, and he's a huge fan of Susan's.On Timberline's wonky vertMeasuring vertical drop is a somewhat hazardous game. Potential asterisks include the clandestine inclusion of hike-up terrain (Aspen Highlands), ski-down terrain with no return lift access (Sunlight), or both (Arapahoe Basin). Generally, I refer to lift-served vert, meaning what you can ski down and ride back up without walking. But even that gets tricky, as in the case of Timberline Lodge, Oregon, home to the tallest vertical drop in American lift-served skiing. We have to get mighty creative with the definition of “lift” however, since Timberline includes a 557-vertical-foot lift-served gap between the top of the Summit chairlift (4,290 feet) and the bottom of the Jeff Flood high-speed quad (4,847 feet). This is the result of two historically separate ski areas combining in 2018:Timberline's masterplan calls for a gondola from the base of Summit up to the top of Jeff Flood:For now, skiers can ski all the way down, but have to ride back up to Timberline from the Summit base via shuttle. To further complicate the calculus here, the hyper-exposed Palmer high-speed summit quad rarely runs in winter, acting mostly as a summer workhorse for camp kids. When Palmer's not running, a snowcat will sometimes shuttle skiers close to the unload point.Anyway, that's the fine print annotating our biggest lift-served vertical drop list:On Big Sky's new lifts and pod-stickingSnowmass' recent lift upgrade splurges are impressive, but Big Sky has built an incredible 12 aerial lifts in the past decade, 11 of them brand-new. These are some of the most sophisticated lifts in the world and include two six-packs, two eight-packs, a tram, and two gondolas. This reverse chronology of Big Sky's active lifts doubles as a neat history of the mountain's evolution from striver importing other resorts' leftovers to one of the top ski areas on the continent:Big Sky still has some older chairs spinning along its margins, but plenty of tourists spend their entire vacation just lapping the out-of-base super lifts (according to on-the-ground staff). The only peer Big Sky has in the recent American lift upgrade game is Deer Valley, which has erected nearly a dozen aerial lifts in just the past two years to feed its mega-expansion.On the Ikon Pass site being confusing as to mountain accessI just find the classification of four separate and distinct ski areas as one “destination” confusing, especially for skiers who aren't familiar with the place:On the new Elk Camp chairliftThe upside of taking nine years to distribute this podcast is that I was able to go ride Snowmass' gorgeous new Elk Camp sixer:On my Superstar lift discussion with KillingtonOn Aspen's history of selling liftsI somewhat overstated Aspen's history of selling lifts to smaller mountains. It seemed like a lot, though these are the only ones I can find records of:However, given Skico's enormous number of retired Riblets (28, all but two of which were doubles), and the durability and ubiquity of these machines, I suspect that pieces – and perhaps wholes – of Aspen's retired chairlifts are scattered in boneyards across the West.On the small number of relocated detachable lifts Given that the world's first modern detachable chairlift debuted at Breckenridge 45 years ago, it's astonishing how few have been relocated. Only 19 U.S. detaches that started life within the U.S. are now operating elsewhere in the country, and only nine moved to a different ski area:On Powderhorn's West End chairThe number of relocated detachables is set to increase to 10 next year, when Powderhorn, Colorado repurposes Snowmass' old Elk Camp quad to replace this amazing, 7,000-foot-long double chair, a 1972 Heron-Poma machine:Elk Camp is already sitting in a pile beside the load station (Powderhorn officials tell me the carriers are also onsite, but elsewhere):Powderhorn's existing high-speed quad, the Flat Top Flyer, also came used, from Marble Mountain in Canada.On Snowmass' masterplan and the proposed Burnt Mountain liftSnowmass' most recent U.S. Forest Service masterplan, released in 2022, shows the approximate location of a future hypothetical Burnt Mountain chairlift (the left-most red dotted line below):Unfortunately, Cross and the rest of Skico's leadership seem fairly unenthusiastic about actually building this lift. Right now, skiers can hike from the top of Elk Camp chair to access this terrain.On Aspen's Nell-Bell ProposalOh man how freaking cool would it be to ride one chairlift from Aspen's base to the top of Bell? Cross and I discuss Aspen Mountain's Forest Service application to do exactly that, with a machine along roughly this line parallel to the gondola:The new detachable would replace two rarely-used chairs: the Nell fixed-grip quad and the Bell Mountain double chair, which, incredibly, dates to 1957 (with heavy modifications in the 1980s), making it the fourth-oldest standing chairlift in the nation (after Mt. Spokane's 1956 Vista Cruiser Riblet, Mad River Glen's 1946 American Steel & Wire single chair, and Boyne Mountain's Hemlock Riblet double, moved to Michigan in 1948 after starting life circa 1936 as America's first chairlift – a single standing at Sun Valley).I lucked out with a gondola wind hold when I was in Aspen a few weeks back, meaning Nell was spinning:Sadly, Bell was idle, but I skied the liftline and loaded up on photos:On the original Lift 1 at AspenBehold Lift 1 on Aspen Mountain, a 1946 American Steel & Wire single chair that rose 2,574 vertical feet along an 8,480-foot line in something like 35 or 40 minutes. Details on this lift's origin story and history vary, but commenters on Lift Blog suggest that towers from this lift ended up as part of Sunlight's Segundo double following its removal from Ajax in 1971. That Franken-lift, which also contained parts from Aspen's Lift 3 – which dated to 1954 and may have been a Poma or American Steel & Wire machine, but lived its 52-year Sunlight tenure as a Riblet – came down last summer to make way for a new-used triple – A-Basin's old Lenawee chair.On the Hero's expansionAt just 826 acres, Aspen Mountain is the most famous small ski area in the West. The reason, in part, for this notoriety: a quirky, lively treasure chest of a ski area that rockets straight up, hiding odd little terrain pockets in its fingers and folds. The 153-acre Hero's terrain, a byzantine scramble of high-altitude tree skiing opened just two years ago, fits into this Rocky Mountain minefield like a thousand-dollar bill in a millionaire's wallet. An obscene boost to an already near-perfect ski mountain, so good it's hard to believe the ski area existed so long without it.Here's a mellow section of Hero's:And a less-mellow one (adding to the challenge, this terrain is at 11,000 feet):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

What would you do if you stumbled across a creature in the forest so powerful — it twisted a deer's neck with its bare hands? In this raw and jaw-dropping episode, we hear from Miguel, a lifelong outdoorsman from the Spokane region of Washington State. Miguel recounts his terrifying encounter in the buck brush near Marble Mountain, where he and a friend witnessed a massive Sasquatch kill and drag away a full-grown deer — all in broad daylight. This story includes detailed descriptions of the creature's movements, physical appearance, and the disturbing sounds it made while feeding. Miguel's story doesn't stop there. He also shares an equally chilling encounter with a vibrating, cloaked entity near Mount Spokane — and how these events led to a complete spiritual transformation. If you've ever wondered what it's like to truly see Bigfoot — and how it changes everything — don't miss this unforgettable story from Stevens County.

In this episode KJ reviews the legend of the Lake Tianchi Monster. Bill covers a Bigfoot sighting from Marble Mountain which is also the location of one of the best video accounts of a Bigfoot sighting. And finally we will cover some great listener mail. Please join us!Thank you for listening!www.bigfootterrorinthewoods.comProduced by: "Bigfoot Terror in the Woods L.L.C."

In this episode KJ reviews the legend of the Lake Tianchi Monster. Bill covers a Bigfoot sighting from Marble Mountain which is also the location of one of the best video accounts of a Bigfoot sighting. And finally we will cover some great listener mail. Please join us! Thank you for listening! www.bigfootterrorinthewoods.com Produced by: "Bigfoot Terror in the Woods L.L.C."

John MacLennan represents district 4, which includes Lake Ainslie, Whycocomagh, Waycobah, Orangedale, and River Denys.And Catherine Gillis represents disrtict 6, which includes Judique, Port Hastings, Glendale, West Bay, and Marble Mountain.

January has been a disheartening month for many snow lovers, but there was good news today. Marble Mountain ski hill was scheduled to open in the morning. It's taken a lot of work and perseverance to get the hill ready. Bruce Hollett is executive chair of the board of directors of Marble Mountain.

A foundation set up to help aspiring skiers and snowboarders is expanding its efforts this winter. The Andrew Jesso Foundation was established in memory of a young man who died in a car accident in 2022. For the past two winters, it's helped skiers at Marble Mountain. But it's set its sights on the island's other ski hill this year, too.Sheldon Peddle is with the Andrew Jesso Foundation, he shared how the foundation continues to expand.

Two sisters from Steady Brook spend a lot of their time carving the slopes of Marble Mountain on skis and snowboards. They're among the most recent winners of Premier's Athletic Awards, which honour one hundred of this province's top young athletes. The awards were presented in late October, and two of the recipients were alpine skier Lily Hayden and snowboarder Meredith Hayden.

Marble Mountain will see big changes this winter season. In August, the leadership at the ski resort decided it would no longer have volunteer patrollers, ending an over 50-year partnership with the Canadian Ski Patrol. The staff at Marble Mountain haven't given a reason for the decision. Meaghan Kells is President of the Atlantic/East Division of the Canadian Ski Patrol, and she spoke with CBC's Colleen Connors.

Marble Mountain Ski Resort in Steady Brook is on the block - again. The provincial government is looking for expressions of interest for someone to buy or lease the facility. Joe Dicks is the owner of Marble Inn Resort, in Steady Brook. He submitted a proposal the last time government made an attempt to find a private owner or operator. CBC's Colleen Connors met up with him to find out why he thinks the resort needs more than just a new owner.

Marble Mountain will get some repairs and upgrades in the coming months. The provincial government set aside another one million dollars in the spring budget for capital improvements at the ski facility in Steady Brook. Steve Crocker is the province's Minister of Tourism, Culture, Arts and Recreation. He spoke with the CBC's Colleen Connors.

ICYMI: Marble Mountain now has a ski trail named in memory of a person - and It's the first time it's been done. "Drew's Drop" was named on February 18 to honour Andrew Jesso - a ski instructor, DJ, fitness coach, and member of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. He was nearly 20 years old when he died in a car accident in 2022. A charity in his name - the Andrew Jesso Foundation - helps provide children with the chance to learn to ski and snowboard. Andrew's family and co-workers gathered at Marble Mountain on February 18 to honour him. CBC's Sarah Antle spoke with Andrew's mother, Laura Jesso.

Heavy rain this weekend was a major setback at Marble Mountain Ski Resort. The CBC's William Ping spoke with general manager Richard Wells.

The ski hill in Western Newfoundland was hit hard by flooding on the weekend. Heavy rain led to water pouring down over the hillside at Marble Mountain. Marble Mountain Richard Wells spoke this morning with Bernice Hillier (interview at start of podcast), and Steady Brook Mayor Bill Dawson spoke on Sunday with the CBC's William Ping (starts at 7:00 mark).

A winter rainstorm left the ski hill in Steady Brook in a proper mess this weekend. We get the latest from the General Manager at Marble Mountain Resort. (Anthony Germain with Richard Wells) 

This podcast hit paid subscribers' inboxes on Dec. 30. It dropped for free subscribers on Jan. 6. To receive future pods as soon as they're live, and to support independent ski journalism, please consider an upgrade to a paid subscription. You can also subscribe to the free tier below:WhoAaron Kellett, General Manager of Whiteface, New YorkRecorded onDecember 4, 2023About WhitefaceView the mountain stats overviewOwned by: The State of New YorkLocated in: Wilmington, New YorkYear founded: 1958Pass affiliations: NY Ski3 Pass: Unlimited, along with Gore and BelleayreClosest neighboring ski areas: Mt. Pisgah (:34), Beartown (:55), Dynamite Hill (1:05), Rydin-Hy Ranch (1:12), Titus (1:15), Gore (1:21)Base elevation: 1,220 feetSummit elevation:* 4,386 feet (top of Summit Quad)* 4,650 feet (top of The Slides)* 4,867 feet (mountain summit)Vertical drop: 3,166 feet lift-served; 3,430 feet hike-toSkiable Acres: 299 + 35 acres in The SlidesAverage annual snowfall: 183 inchesTrail count: 94 (30% expert, 46% intermediate, 24% beginner)Lift count: 12 (1 eight-passenger gondola, 2 high-speed quads, 3 fixed-grip quads, 1 triple, 3 doubles, 2 carpets – view Lift Blog's inventory of Whiteface's lift fleet)View historic Whiteface trailmaps on skimap.org.Why I interviewed himWhiteface, colloquially “Iceface,” rises, from base to summit, a greater height than any ski area in the Northeast. That may not impress the Western chauvinists, who refuse to acknowledge any merit to east-of-the-Mississippi skiing, but were we to airlift this monster to the West Coast, it would tower over all but two ski areas in the three-state region:The International Olympic Committee does not select Winter Games host mountains by tossing darts at a world map. Consider the other U.S. ski areas that have played host: Palisades Tahoe, Park City, Snowbasin, Deer Valley. All naturally blessed with more and more consistent snow than this gnarly Adirondacks skyscraper, but Whiteface, from a pure fall-line skiing point of view, is the equal of any mountain in the country.Still not convinced? Fine. Whiteface will do just fine without you. This state-owned, heavily subsidized-by-public-funds monster seated in the heart of the frozen Adirondacks has just about the most assured future of any ski area anywhere. With an ever-improving monster of a snowmaking system and no great imperative to raise the cannons against Epkon invaders, the place is as close to climate-proof and competition-proof as a modern ski area can possibly be.There's nothing else quite like Whiteface. Most publicly owned ski areas are ropetow bumps that sell lift tickets out of a woodshed on the edge of town. They lean on public funds because they couldn't exist without them. The big ski areas can make their own way. But New York State, enamored of its Olympic legacy and eager to keep that flame burning, can't quite let this one go. The result is this glimmering, grinning monster of a mountain, a boon for the skier, bane for the tax-paying family-owned ski areas in its orbit who are left to fight this colossus on their own. It's not exactly fair and it's not exactly right, but it exists, in all its glory and confusion, and it was way past time to highlight Whiteface on this podcast.What we talked aboutWhiteface's strong early December (we recorded this before the washout); recent snowmaking enhancements; why Empire still doesn't have snowmaking; May closings at Whiteface; why Whiteface built The Notch, an all-new high-speed quad, to serve existing terrain; other lines the ski area considered for the lift; Whiteface's extensive transformation of the beginner experience over the past few years; remembering “snowboard parks” and the evolution of Whiteface's terrain parks; Whiteface's immense legacy and importance to Northeast skiing; could New York host another Winter Olympics?; potential upper-mountain lift upgrades; the etymology of recent Whiteface lift installations; Lookout Mountain; potential future trails; how New York State's constitution impacts development at Whiteface; why Whiteface doesn't offer more glades; The Slides; why Whiteface doesn't have ski-in, ski-out lodging; and whether Alterra invited Whiteface and its sister mountains onto the Ikon Pass in 2018, and whether they would join today.Why I thought that now was a good time for this interviewOver the past three years, Whiteface has quietly remade its beginner experience with a series of lower-mountain lift upgrades: the old triple chair on the Bear Den side (which Kellett notes was Whiteface's original summit chair) made way for a new Skytrac fixed-grip quad in 2020. The next year, the Mixing Bowl and Bear doubles out of the main base came out for another new Skytrac quad. Then, earlier this month, Whiteface opened The Notch, a brand-new, $11.2 million Doppelmayr high-speed quad with an angle station to seamlessly transport skiers from Bear Den up to mid-mountain, from which point they can easily lap the kingdom of interlaced greens tangled below. Check out the before and after:It's a brilliant evolution for a mountain that has long embraced its identity as a proving ground for champions, a steep and icy former Olympic host comfortable scaring the hell out of you. Skiing has a place for radsters and Park Brahs and groomer gods arcing GS turns off the summit. But the core of skiing is families. They spend the most on the bump and off, and they have options. In Whiteface's case, that's Vermont, the epicenter of Northeast skiing and home to no fewer than a dozen fully built-out and buffed-up ski resorts, many of which belong to a national multimountain pass that committed ski families are likely to own. To compete, Whiteface had to ramp up its green-circle appeal.I don't think the world has processed that fact yet, just as I don't think they've quite understood the utter transformations at Whiteface sister resorts Belleayre and Gore. The state has plowed more than half a billion dollars into ORDA's facilities since 2017. While some of that cash went to improve the authority's non-ski facilities in and around Lake Placid (ice rinks and the like), a huge percent went directly into new lifts, snowmaking, lodges, and other infrastructure upgrades at the ski mountains.For context, Alterra, owner of 18 ski areas in the U.S. and Canada, reported in March that they had invested $1 billion into their mountains since the company's formation in 2017. To underscore the magnitude of ORDA's investment: any one of Alterra's flagship western properties – Mammoth (3,500 acres), Palisades Tahoe (6,000), Winter Park (3,081), Steamboat (3,500), Crystal (2,600) – is many times larger than Whiteface (288), Gore (439), and Belleayre (171) combined (898 total acres, or just a bit smaller than Aspen Mountain). No ski areas in America have seen more investment in proportion to their size in recent years than these three state-owned mountains.I also wanted to touch on a topic that gnaws at me: why Alterra, when it cleaned out the M.A.X. Pass, overlooked so many strong regional mountains that could have turbocharged local sales. I got into this with Lutsen Mountains GM Jim Vick in October, and Kellett humors me on this question: would Whiteface have joined the Ikon Pass had it been invited in 2018? And would they join now, given the success and growth of the Ski 3 Pass over the past six years? The answers are not what you might think.Questions I wish I'd askedI probably should have asked about the World University Games, which Whiteface and Lake Placid spent years and millions of dollars to prepare for. I don't cover competition, but I do admire spectacles, and more than an allusion to the event would have been appropriate for the format. We do, however, go deep on the possibility of the Olympics returning to New York.Also, I don't get into the whole ORDA-public-funding-handicapping-New-York's-small-ski-areas thing, even though it is a thing, and one that independent operators rightly see as an existential threat. I do cover this dynamic often in the newsletter, but I don't address it with Kellett. Why? I'll reset here what I said when I hosted Gore GM Bone Bayse on the podcast last year:Many of you may be left wondering why my extensive past complaints about ORDA largess did not penetrate my line of questioning for this interview. Gore is about to spend nearly $9 million to replace a 12-year-old triple chair with a high-speed quad. There is no other ski area on the continent that is able to do anything remotely similar. How could I spend an hour talking to the person directing this whole operation without broaching this very obvious subject?Because this is not really a Gore problem. It's not even an ORDA problem. This is a New York State problem. The state legislature is the one directing hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to three ski areas while the majority of New York's family-owned mountains pray for snow. I am not opposed to government support of winter sports. I am opposed to using tax dollars from independent ski areas that have to operate at a profit in order to subsidize the operations of government-owned ski areas that do not. There are ways to distribute the wealth more evenly, as I've outlined before.But this is not Bayse's fight. He's the general manager of a public ski area. What is he supposed to do? Send the $9 million back to the legislature and tell them to give it to Holiday Mountain? His job is to help prioritize projects and then make sure they get done. And he's really good at that job. So that – and not bureaucratic decisions that he has no control over – was where I took this conversation.No need to rewrite it for Whiteface because the sentiment is exactly the same.What I got wrongI called the Empire trail “Vampire” because that's what I'd thought Kellett had called it and I'm not generally great about memorizing trail names. But no such trail exists. Sorry Whiteface Nation.I said the mid-mountain lodge burned down in “2018 or 2019.” The exact date was Nov. 30, 2019.I said that there had been “on the order of a billion dollars in improvements to ORDA facilities over the past decade… or at least several hundred million.” The actual number, according to a recent report in Adirondack Life, is $552 million over just six years.Why you should ski WhitefaceTwo hundred and ninety-nine acres doesn't sound like much, like something that fell off the truck while Vail was putting the Back Bowls in storage for the summer, like a mountain you could exhaust in a morning on a set of burners over fresh cord.But this is a state-owned mountain, and they measure everything in that meticulous bureaucratic way of The Official. Each mile of trail is measured and catalogued and considered. Because it has to be: New York State's constitution sets limits on how many miles of trails each of its owned mountains can develop. So constrained, the western wand-wavers, who typically count skiable acreage as anything within their development boundary, would be much more frugal in their accounting.So step past that off-putting stat – it's clear from the trailmap that options at Whiteface abound - to focus on this one: 3,166 feet of lift-served vert. That's not some wibbly-wobbly claim: this is real, straight-down, relentless fall line skiing. It's glorious. Yes, the pitch moderates below the mid-mountain lodge, but this is, top to bottom, one of the best pure ski mountains in America.And if you hit it just right and they crack open The Slides, you will feel, for a couple thousand vertical feet, like you're skiing off the scary side of Lone Peak at Big Sky or the Cirque at Snowbird. Wild terrain, steep and furious, featured and forlorn. It is the only terrain pod in the Northeast that sometimes requires an avalanche transceiver and shovel. It's that serious.There's also the history side, the pride, the pomp. Most mountains in New York feel comfortably local, colloquial almost, as though you'd stumbled onto some small town's Founder's Day Parade. But Whiteface carries the aura of the self-aware Olympian that it is, a cosmopolitan outpost in the middle of nowhere, a place where skiers from all over converge to see what's going on. As the only eastern U.S. mountain to ever host the games, Whiteface has a big legacy to carry, and it holds it with a bold pride that you must see to understand.Podcast NotesOn the Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA)If you're wondering what ORDA is, here's the boilerplate:The New York State Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) was originally created by the State of New York to manage the facilities used during the 1980 Olympic Winter Games at Lake Placid. Today, ORDA operates multiple venues including the Olympic Center, Olympic Jumping Complex, Mt. Van Hoevenberg, Whiteface Mountain, Gore Mountain & Belleayre Mountain. In January 2023, many of ORDA's venues were showcased to the world as they played host the Lake Placid 2023 Winter World University Games, spanning 11 days, 12 sports, and over 600 competing universities from around the world.To understand why “ORDA” is a four-letter word among New York's independent ski area operators, read this piece in Adirondack Life, or this op-ed by Plattekill owner Laszlo Vajtay on efforts to expand neighboring Belleayre.On the Whiteface UMPEach of ORDA's three ski areas maintains a Unit Management Plan, outlining proposed near- and long-term improvements. Here's Whiteface's most recent amendment, from 2022, which shows a potential new, longer Freeway lift, among other improvements:The version that I refer to in my conversation with Kellett, however, is from the 2018 UMP amendment:On the Lifts that used to serve Whiteface's midmountainKellett discusses the kooky old lift configuration that served the midmountain from Whiteface's main base before the Face Lift high-speed quad arrived in 2002. Here's a circa 2000 trailmap, which shows a triple chair with a midstation running alongside a double chair that ends at the midstation. It's similar to the current setup of the side-by-side Little Whiteface and Mountain Run doubles (unchanged today from the map below), which Kellett tells us on the podcast “doesn't really work for us”:On the renaissance at BelleayreI referenced the incredible renaissance at Whiteface's sister mountain, Belleayre, which I covered after a recent visit last month:Seven years ago, Belleayre was a relic, a Catskills left-behind, an awkward mountain bisected by its own access road. None of the lifts connected in a logical way. Snowmaking was… OK.Then, in 2016, the Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA), the state agency that manages New York State's other two ski areas (Whiteface and Gore), took over management at Belle. Spectacular sums of money poured in: an eight-passenger gondola and trail connecting the upper and lower mountains in 2017; a new quad (Lightning) to replace a set of antique double-doubles in 2019; a dramatic base lodge expansion and renovation in 2020; and, everywhere, snowmaking, hundreds and hundreds of guns to blanket this hulking Catskills ridge.This year's headline improvement is the Overlook Quad, a 900-ish-vertical-foot fixed-grip machine that replaces the Lift 7 triple. Unlike its predecessor lift, which terminated above its namesake lodge, Overlook crosses the parking lot on a skier bridge crafted from remnants of the old Hudson-spanning Tappan Zee Bridge, then meets Lightning just below its unload.With these two lifts now connected, Belleayre offers three bottom-to-top paths. A new winder called Goat Path gives intermediates a clear ski to the bottom, a more thrilling option than meandering (but pleasant) Deer Run (off the gondy), or Roaring Brook (off the Belleayre high-speed quad).Belle will never be a perfect ski mountain. It's wicked steep for 20 or 30 turns, then intermediate-ish down to mid-mountain, then straight green to the bottom (I personally enjoy this idiosyncratic layout). But right now, it feels and skis like a brand-new ski area. Along with West Mountain and the soon-to-be-online Holiday Mountain, Belleayre is a candidate for most-improved ski area in New York State, a showpiece for renaissance through aggressive investment. Here's the mountain today - note how all the lifts now knot together into a logical network:On Beartown ski areaKellett mentions Beartown, a 150-vertical-foot surface-lift bump an hour north of Whiteface. Like many little town hills across America, Beartown uses its Facebook page as a de facto website. Here's a recent trailmap (the downhill operation is a footnote to the sprawling cross-country network):On the Miracle on IceIf you're not a sportsball fan, you may not be familiar with the Miracle on Ice, which is widely considered one of the greatest upsets in sports history. The United States hockey team, improbably, defeated the four-time-defending Olympic champion Soviet Union at the 1980 Lake Placid Olympics. The U.S. went on to defeat Finland in their final game to win the gold medal. This is a pretty good retrospective from a local Upstate New York news station:And this is what it looked like live:On Andrew WeibrechtKellett tells us that the Warhorse chairlift, built to replace the Bear and Mixing Bowl doubles in 2021, is named after Andrew Weibrecht, a ski racer who grew up at Whiteface. You can follow him on Instapost here.On Marble MountainThe main reason the U.S. has so many lost ski areas is that we didn't always know how or where to build ski areas. Which means we cut trails where there were hills but not necessarily consistent ski conditions. Such is the case with Whiteface, which is the historical plan B after the state's first attempt at a ski area on the mountain failed. This was Marble Mountain, which operated from 1935 to 1960 on a footprint that slightly overlaps present-day Whiteface:Whiteface opened in 1958, on the north side of the same mountain. This contemporary trailmap shows the Cloudsplitter trail, which Kellett tells us was part of Marble Mountain, connecting down to Whiteface:That trail quickly disappeared from the map:For decades, the forest moved in. Until, in 2008, Whiteface installed the Lookout Mountain Triple and revived the trail, now known as “Hoyt's High”:So, why did Marble Mountain go away? This excellent 2015 article from Skiing History lays it out:To get the full benefit of the sweeping northern vista from the newly widened Wilmington Trail at Whiteface Mountain near Lake Placid, pick a calm day. Otherwise, get ready for a blast of what ski historian and meteorologist Jeremy Davis characterizes as “howling, persistent winds” that 60 years ago brought down Marble Mountain. Intended to be New York State's signature ski resort in the 1950s, Marble lasted just 10 years before it closed. It remains the largest ski area east of the Mississippi to be abandoned.It turns out you can't move the mountain, so the state moved the ski area: The “new” Whiteface resort, dedicated in 1958, is just around the corner. With 87 trails and 3,430 vertical feet, Whiteface played host to the 1980 Winter Olympic alpine events and continues to host international and national competitions regularly. How close was Marble Mountain to Whiteface? Its Porcupine Lodge, just off the new Lookout Mountain chairlift, is still used by the Whiteface ski patrol.Full read recommended.On Gore's glade network versus Whiteface'sIn case you haven't noticed, Whiteface's sister resort, Gore, has a lights-out glade network:I've long wondered why Whiteface hasn't undertaken a similarly ambitious trailblazing project. Kellett clarifies in the podcast.On The SlidesThe Slides are a rarely open extreme-skiing zone hanging off Whiteface's summit. In case you overlooked them on the trailmap above, here's a zoom-in view:New York Ski Blog has put together a lights-out guide to this singular domain, with a turn-by-turn breakdown of Slides 1 through 4.On there being noplace to stay on the mountainWhile Whiteface and sister mountains Gore and Belleayre currently offer no slopeside lodging, I believe that they ought to, for a number of reasons. One, the revenue from such an enterprise would at least partially offset the gigantic tax subsidies that currently feed these mountains' capital budgets. Two, people want to stay at the mountain. Three, if they can't, they go where they can, which in the case of New York means Vermont or Jiminy Peak. Four, every person who is not staying at the mountain is driving there each morning in a polluting or congestion-causing vehicle. Five, yes I agree that endless slopeside condos are an eyesore, but the raw wilderness surrounding these three mountains grants ORDA a generational opportunity to construct dense, walkable, car-free villages that could accommodate thousands of skiers at varying price points within minimal acreage. In fact, the Bear Den parking lot at Whiteface, the main parking lot at Gore, and the lower parking lot at Belleayre would offer sufficient space to house humans instead of machines (or both – the cars could go underground). Long-term, U.S. skiing is going to need more of this and less everyone-drives-everyday clusterfucks.  On the M.A.X. PassI will remain forever miffed that Alterra did not invite Whiteface, Gore, and Belleayre to join the Ikon Pass when it cleaned out and shut down the M.A.X. Pass in 2018. Here was that pass' roster – skiers could clock five days at each ski area:On multi-mountain pass owners on Indy PassEvery once in a while, some knucklehead will crack on social media that Whiteface could never join the Indy Pass because it's part of a larger ownership group, and therefore doesn't qualify. But they are reading the brand too literally. Indy doesn't give a s**t – they want the mountains that are going to sell passes, which is why their roster includes 22 ski areas that are owned by multi-mountain operators, including Jay Peak, its top redeemer for three seasons running:The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us.The Storm publishes year-round, and guarantees 100 articles per year. This is article 114/100 in 2023, and number 499 since launching on Oct. 13, 2019. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe

Start dusting off your skis and snowboarding gear. Marble Mountain Ski Resort in Steady Brook is gearing up for another season of winter fun. CBC's Colleen Connors spoke with the people who run the ski hill -- including Richard Wells, general manager, and Bruce Hollett, the executive chair of the board of Marble Mountain Development Corporation.

Claude Poirier represents district 1, which includes Cheticamp, Pleasant Bay, and Meat Cove. Catherine Gillis represents district 6, which includes Judique, Port Hastings, Glendale, West Bay, and Marble Mountain.

The view from the top of Marble Mountain is one of the best on the west coast of the island. But getting up the hill in the summer is a serious trek that few will tackle. Now, there's an easier way to get there. The staff at the mountain have started running the Lightning Express chairlift -- at half speed -- for summer rides.

In this edition, Zach talks with southern Oregon expert Ryan Ghelfi about backpacking in the wild and beautiful Klamath-Siskiyou Mountains of southwest Oregon and extreme northwest California. It's an ideal year to backpack in the area due to wildfire danger that's lower than it has been in many years, following California's historic snowpack that has tamped down fire concerns — at least for the moment. Zach and Ryan talk about wild and remote places right on the Oregon-California border such as the Red Buttes, Siskiyou and Kalmiopsis Wilderness areas, then drop into the even more spectacular Trinity Alps and Marble Mountain wilderness areas — and more.

Catherine Gillis is the Deputy Warden for Inverness. She represents district 6, which includes Judique, Port Hastings, Glendale, West Bay, and Marble Mountain. Blair Phillips is councillor for district 2, which takes in Grand Etang, Belle Cote, and most of the Margarees.

Winter is coming to an end soon, but things may be just ramping up at Marble Mountain. The government-owned ski resort near Corner Brook will soon start making the transformation into a year-round attraction. Richard Wells is general manager.

Named Tennessee's Outstanding Young Man for service to his community, state and country, Bud Willis has been well recognized for his first book, Bluestocking, released in 2009, now in its second printing. A native Tennessean, Willis grew up in Tullahoma, and graduated from Tennessee Tech University, Cookeville. There, Bud served as editor of the campus literary magazine. His professional career extended through 34 years in the securities industry as Partner with J.C. Bradford and Company. As a successful business man, public speaker, and humorist, his spirited Southern writing style engages readers quickly, with pathos, humor, and new knowledge regarding the lives and labor of young, Marine pilots serving in the mid-60's in Vietnam. Bud's memoir Marble Mountain is available on Amazon.

Grab your skiis, strap into your snowboard, and prepare to hit the slopes! We get details on Marble Mountain's opening.

After more than a year of work, there's finally a brand new Doppler radar on Marble Mountain. And that means more precise forecasting for communities hundreds of kilometres away. The new radar is part of upgrades across Canada. David Neil is with Environment Canada.

Last month, the provincial government put out a Request for Proposals, or R-F-P, to take things another step closer to the goal of having Marble Mountain operate as a four-season resort. That RFP closed recently, and a selected proponent could be notified as early as Friday. Steve Crocker is the province's Minister of Tourism, Culture, Arts and Recreation.

A ski chalet is, of course, a great place to warm up after a day on the slopes in the winter. But, this week, the ski chalet at Marble Mountain will also be a pretty good spot to cozy up and listen to a story or two. Some Canadian authors will be gathering there to read from their work and to offer workshops for other writers. It's the first-ever Marble Mountain Literary Festival. Adam Beardsworth is an author, professor of English at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University, and organizer of the new literary festival.

Back in the day, ski hills were places to go only when snow was on the ground. But, in the last decade or so, top ski destinations around the world have added features to attract visitors year-round. Marble Mountain in Steady Brook is on board with that trend, and it recently sponsored a big mountain bike race. Dustin Parsons is marketing manager at Marble Mountain Resort.

If you're looking for something to do this Canada Day weekend, you may want to head over to Marble Mountain Resort in Steady Brook. Dustin Parsons, the Marketing Manager at Marble, tells us about events that the resort had planned for the summer.

From June of 2015, our former community historian Jim St Clair talks about the seafaring history of the Maxwell twins of Marble Mountain.

Marble Mountain will see lots of skis - that are attached to machines - and the riders will travel UP the hill, VERY fast. The Western SnoRiders snowmobile club will hold the Race on the Rock event this weekend. Mark Hutchinson is one of the organizers.

A new analysis from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives says proposed public asset sales in Newfoundland and Labrador could do a lot more harm than good. NL's government is already behind on plans to put a price tag on such assets as the Liquor Corporation, Marble Mountain and registries, such as the Motor Vehicle Division. A report commissioned to assess some of those assets was just released after delays. Simon Enoch is the Saskatchewan director of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.

Earlier this month, the breakdown of one of the lifts at Marble Mountain ski resort caused some tense moments for a couple of hundred people, who were stranded in the air while first responders and volunteers helped them down. This morning, marketing manager Dustin Parsons told us the Lightning Express lift was up and running, and the resort was all set to re-open for a weekend-long celebration of skiing.

The annual Marble Cup takes place this Saturday and Sunday at Marble Mountain in Steady Brook.The popular alpine races will feature skiers from Atlantic Canada, as well as local members of Marble's race team. Nicholas Dillman is the president of Marble Mountain's Alpine Race Team.

A chairlift at Marble Mountain ski resort malfunctioned on the weekend, leaving about 250 skiers suspended in mid-air. The resort's marketing manager tells us how staff, first responders and volunteers worked together for two-and-a-half to three hours to get everyone off the lift, with two cases of mild hypothermia reported.

(Starts at 0:48 mark) a Long Term Care home in St. George's takes major steps to deal with an outbreak there, in light of the Omicron surge, (8:42) Trout River's deputy mayor tells us about flooded streets and even landslides nearby, after heavy rain this week, (15:06) the managers of Marble Mountain in Steady Brook and White Hills Resort near Clarenville tell us their opening plans, and (23:38) it's the end of an era in Ramea after more than a hundred years of history. There are plans to close the book on the Orange Lodge.

(Starts at 1:03 mark) A child care provider in Corner Brook can't get answers about why she's not getting paid under the province's subsidized child care plan, (9:45) the RCMP warn people to watch out for the holiday increase in dishonest dealings from scammers, (15:15) students at the Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University want to know if you eat moose liver, to see whether the organs have high levels of cadmium, and ( 20:40) a popular craft fair and summer market in the Humber Valley is being brought back as a winter event at a Marble Mountain.

(Starts at 0:51 mark) A Doyles man driving out in a wind and rain storm got the fright of his life Tuesday night. Ryan Moore was on his way back home when the road collapsed under his vehicle.(4:50) The TCH washed out in two sections near Doyles, and there were road closures on the Doyles Station Road and the highway through St. Andrew's. Wilfred MacIsaac is the chair of the local service district in St. Andrew's, and (11:03) The provincial government will once again look to privatize Marble Mountain. The last effort ended with no deals for the struggling ski resort. Steve Crocker is the minister responsible of tourism, culture, arts and recreation.

On Aug. 23, 1968, a sapper attack at FOB 4 killed 16 Green Berets in one night    Larry with RT Rattler took out enemy mortar teams which prevented the body count from going higher. At one point, Larry was along on the mountain...

(In at 0:58) The future of Marble Mountain looks uncertain with no deal reached for a private buy-out, (8:46) Greg Janes is hoping to create a new park with a sweat lodge in Corner Brook, (16:47) Meagan Philpott from the Association for New Canadians NL and former new Canadian Mishal Abdullah talk about what it takes for newcomers to settle comfortably in the province,(27:05) and a miniature sailboat launched by students in Boston lands ashore on Newfoundland's southern coast.

Crow's Nest By SSgt Jim Elliott, USMC From Leatherneck Magazine January 2021This article from the Leatherneck archives tells the story of 2nd Bn, 1st Marines, atop a peak of Marble Mountain where they served as the “eyes” for U.S. forces in Da Nang. Their primary mission was to spot enemy rocket sites aimed at Da The post From the Archive: Crow's Nest appeared first on MCA.

Weather station on top of Marble Mountain will shut for a year as Doppler radar facility is replaced, public interest group of health care researchers will consult cancer patients and their families, NL fisheries union says lack of competition could cause crab harvesters to sell catches in NS, and forest fire expert says lack of runoff water could raise the risk of forest fires this spring.

End Of Shortest Ski Season In Recent Memory - Richard Wells Marble Mountain Operations Manager by VOCM

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Woman says four-hour drive, round-trip, may deter people from getting a Covid-19 test, truckers will be given Phase Two priority for vaccinations because they're essential workers, "caretaker" status of NL government during the provincial election campaign and voting process is hobbling decision-making, and skiers and snowboarders rejoice in Thursday's opening of Marble Mountain ski hill.

In this episode, Chuck continues his knee rehab, and he and Dawayne discuss the Marble Mountain Bigfoot Video, in the Mystery Sasquatch Syndicate Theater (MSST). VIDEO LINK TO THIS EPISODE Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube Channel, to keep up to date on all the latest. BELIEVE If you wish to be a guest on the show, or to discuss collaborative efforts, or events.   Please visit us at https://www.sasquatchsyndicate.com or email us at contact@sasquatchsyndicate.com. © 2022 Sasquatch Syndicate Inc.  All Rights Reserved. #sasquatch #bigfoot #sasquatchsyndicate #sasquatchsyn

Hear how Danang offers up a new kind of experience for my guest today, Jonathan Kiely.A fun Irish lad who left Ireland in search of adventure and who found himself drawn to the beachside city of Danang where he has decided, he might just settle for a bit, as he rates it as one of the best  “Chilled out” cities he has ever visited.Jonathan left his high pressure job in Ireland to go traveling. He landed in Vietnam and despite the Covid Pandemic he opted to stay on and live the life of  “Riley” so to speak as an Expat.A year and a half on, Jonathan gives us his version of Vietnam and his experience of Danang and the local community which he has found an affinity with through various health and well being programs.He raves about the people and the environment in which you can explore your own creativity. Plus, you can SURF.Things to know about DanangDanang is located in Central Vietnam, and has an international airport.It is a 1-hour flight from either Hanoi or HCMC.The city links you to Hoi An which is only a 25-minute drive to the famous Old Town from the airport. Danang is being touted as the city to watch! It is known for its beautiful beaches, stunning sunsets, mountains, and beautiful surroundings such as Son Tra, Lady Budha, Hai Van Pass, Marble Mountain to name a few.It seems Danang has earned the reputation of being one of the most liveable cities in Vietnam with good reason.Have you ever thought of taking off on a holiday adventure with no fixed date of return?  Jonathan has kindly offered some of his favourite places to visit in Danang.See below links if you would like to connect, and find out more about his coaching business and the local communities he has become involved with. In particular the Men's Circle he talks about and the Happiness Program Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jonathankielycoaching/?hl=enFacebook page https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.kiely.3FB Coaching Fan page; https://www.facebook.com/jfkcoachingConscious Mens Group private group ( Men's Circle) https://www.facebook.com/groups/1026710457797933Loving Vegan Restaurant; https://www.facebook.com/LovingVeganRestaurantHostin Cafe https://www.facebook.com/Hosttin-Coffee-163433921243354Roots Restaurant https://www.instagram.com/roots.vietnam/?hl=enSUBSCRIBE to the What About Vietnam Podcast.  It's FREE and available herehttps://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/what-about-vietnam-traveller-insights/id1513095454PLEASE RATE AND REVIEW ON APPLE ITUNES  - It would be most appreciated.Choose your favourite channels - Apple, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Iheart Radio -https://whataboutvietnamtripplanning.buzzsprout.com/Check out our website for further Traveller information, Tours, Tips, Hints and Experiences to consider. www.whataboutvietnam.com

In this episode, I have a conversation with Dr. Shaun Miles of Salm67 Ministries. Shaun shares about how he had a troubled childhood and that finally after a night of alcohol and drugs, he was arrested. At that moment in jail he surrendered his life to Christ and God radically changed him. Shaun talks about how he went from being a high school drop out and finally just getting his GED because of learning issues, to then how God directed him to attend Bible College and receive not only his Bachelor's Degree in Theology but also his Doctorate.Shaun met his wife, Lien, while on a mission trip to Vietnam. They have been married 10 years and have 2 sons. Together they minister and help train and develop pastors and leaders throughout Vietnam. They are currently back in the United States, but God has led them to plant and pastor another Church/training center in the city of Da-Nang.Shaun share how he has experienced what he calls "God Moments" throughout his life from his sister providing financially for him to go to Bible College to even being at home with his mother when she passed away earlier this year.If you want to see more resources of what they are doing in their ministry go to http://www.salm67.com/Also Shaun has a podcast called "Shaun and the Word" available on Apple Podcast and Podbean.The Small Church Media PodcastThere are many podcasts for church media, but this one is for the small churches!Listen on: Apple Podcasts SpotifyBuzzsprout - Let's get your podcast launched! Start for FREEDisclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.

No access to school gyms for rentals frustrates community-based sports groups, advocate for people with disabilities says it's unfair to deny a person an occupancy permit in Stephenville, a joint venture promises to bring jobs back to the fish plant in St. Anthony, and a prominent alpine ski volunteer wonders why Marble Mountain hasn't confirmed whether it's re-opening.

The NL government is planning to have the Marble Mountain ski resort open this winter, an early start to sniffle season has lots of parents on edge during back-to-school week, and a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist is back on stage for the first time since Covid-19 came to NL.

A trip to the pagoda atop Marble Mountain in my first few months in DaNang lit me up! One of the sacred mythical creatures here in Vietnam is a unicorn. Yes! I absolutely am in the right place at the right time. In this episode, I share what my fabulous guide offered up about this symbol and why it resonated so much with me and does even more so now that we're all pivoting and reinventing in this new normal. Spoiler Alert: The myth says that unicorns are diverse, intelligent, faithful, regal, servant Rockstar peaceful warriors who conjure all of their power to stand tall and serve in their own lane, in their own glorious way, minding their own business, soaking up and giving all of the good light, and feel zero need to shine like anybody but themselves. Indeed. I've got more. Listen up. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/breathegoflow/message

On today's show in our Cryptids in the News and history segment, Kevin talks about a nearly 200 year old encounter and killing in the Okeefenokee Swamp in Southern Georgia, and in part two, Bill goes through a great encounter including an explanation of Woodknocks...is it actually vocalization? And in part three, we've got a contest winner and some excellent listener mail which we will be reviewing, that you don't want to miss   Thank you for listening! www.bigfootterrorinthewoods.com Produced by:  "Bigfoot Terror in the Woods L.L.C."

On today's show in our Cryptids in the News and history segment, Kevin talks about a nearly 200 year old encounter and killing in the Okeefenokee Swamp in Southern Georgia, and in part two, Bill goes through a great encounter including an explanation of Woodknocks...is it actually vocalization? And in part three, we've got a contest winner and some excellent listener mail which we will be reviewing, that you don't want to miss   Thank you for listening! www.bigfootterrorinthewoods.com Produced by:  "Bigfoot Terror in the Woods L.L.C."

If you have ever thought that you were losing your marbles, and you were at Marble Mountain with Jim Mills you may be right.  Listen in as Kevin unravels this exceptional Bigfoot sighting in our Cryptids in the News and History and other Oddities segment. In part two, I will be recounting an encounter by a couple of extremely detail-oriented hunters, who were hoping for a Roosevelt Elk and came upon something else in the process. And in our Listener Mail segment, we have some really thought provoking ideas sent in from our listeners that you don't want to miss. So stay tuned and leave us some great feedback. Enjoy the show and we are glad to have you on board. Please see link below to free Audible book offer of Bill's Volume 3 of Bigfoot Terror in the Woods: https://www.audible.com/pd/B07WHJY4RR/?source_code=AUDFPWS0223189MWT-BK-ACX0-161057&ref=acx_bty_BK_ACX0_161057_rh_us https://www.bigfootterrorinthewoods.com/

Da Nang is a fantastic city in Central Vietnam with a vibrant culture and gorgeous coastline. We have had the privilege of spending 50 days in this city over the last two years. We have gotten to know all of the great places to visit, fabulous restaurants, fun bars, and must-see sights around the city. Hoi An is only 30 minutes away and on everyone’s travel destination list. When my brother and his wife decided to visit us during our journey, we were excited to suggest Da Nang as the location to meet for their first international travel vacation. With the exciting scooter culture, extremely kind people, and tons of stuff to do, it is a great place to visit for any world adventurer. The cost-friendly prices are an added bonus. Join us for the fun podcast where we discuss why we love Da Nang, Vietnam so much and hope to come back again someday. Main Topics Covered: Da Nang, Vietnam Hoi An, Vietnam Links Mentioned in the Episode: Check out all of the PARTNERS that have made our lives easy while traveling the world.  My brother and his wife stayed at the Balcona Hotel and really enjoyed it.  We have stayed at the Infinity Residencies several times and love the location, comfort, and owners.  One of our favorite places to get a wide selection of Vietnamese food in My An is Kenta A great bar to enjoy drinks with ex-pats, travelers, and locals in My An is the Filling Station The beauty of My Khe Beach is endless.  Our favorite spot to grab an authentic Bahn Xeo is at Miss Nhi’s.  The Dragon Bridge is a great photo opportunity in Da Nang and a gorgeous landmark.  Marble Mountain is an important part of the Da Nang travel experience. Amazing historic importance.  Lady Buddha looks over the city and is a wonderful place to walk in peace and observe the beauty of the city.  Monkey Mountain near InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort is a great place to get out scooter around.  Apocalypse Now is a beautiful bar on the beach with great music and fantastic service.  We visited one of the places that I have played poker in Vietnam.  Con Market is an outdoor market selling goods (clothing, shoes, spices, anything you can think of) and a great place to understand the culture.  We found a spot for the epic Scooter Mafia photo with the big buildings in the back.  Hoa Cuong Wholesale Market is an authentic market that will give you deep insight into how business is done in Da Nang.  One of my favorite barber shops in the world is Ky Lee Barber Shop in Da Nang.  Hoi An a beautiful historic city of streams and lanterns.  We picked up a few suits at Kimmy Tailor and were very pleased with the quality and exceptional service.  Phi Banh Mi is my favorite banh mi spot in Hoi An and ended up getting three on my last visit.  We attended the Super Bowl party at Dirty Fingers, an awesome sports bar in Da Nang near the coast.  Taking the motorbikes to the Hai Van Pass was one of the most memorable times of our journey in Da Nang.  Ho Dong Xanh Dong Nghe is a huge lake near mountains that was about an hour outside of Da Nang. We came across a dice game that had about 25 people betting on different animal faces on the dice.  Chua Hung Quang Buddhist Temple was an unforgettable experience when the head monk brought us in for a Buddhist meal.  Fire-Fly Mobile Bar is on the curbside near the front of Balcona Hotel and run by two young hustlers. A great bar to visit near the beach in Da Nang.  Sign up for our Newsletter to get the latest tips in Travel and hear about our weekly visits around the world

This is a very informative episode full of great MONEY SAVING TIPS for all of you travelers out there!  We will talk about FINANCIAL tools we use during our travels; specifically how we manage our credit card and bank accounts, how we leverage hotel and mileage points for free stays and air travel, and much more!   We will also answer some questions from our followers about living out of one backpack each and our time spent in India. We wrap up with a SHAME ON THAT about travelers photo bombing and blocking prime photo opps. Main Topics Covered: Travel Tips - Finances Q&A - Wearing the same clothes Q&A - Shocking India Food Shame on That - Photo bombing and blocking Links Mentioned in the Episode: Google Fi - the best phone plan for international travelers Nixplay - unbelievable digital frame to share all of your travel photos Priority Pass Global Lounge Access - the best way to travel the world and get airport lounge access Schwab is the best bank to use if you travel internationally as there are zero ATM fees Be sure to leverage your Safety Deposit Box at your local bank Express VPN - the best way to keep your information secure as you travel and access the internet in cafes and restaurants TOR - the browser that keeps you totally protected Freeze your credit if you know you are not going to need any new credit. Mark Zuckerberg, Ray Dalio wear the same outfits or roughly the same everyday Kerala India – 11 Epic Things To Do (2018 Travel Guide) Vietnam Travel Guide (Top 11 Things to Do in Vietnam) Top 5 Things to Do in Bangkok, Thailand The Ultimate Guide to Island Hopping in Greece (Island hopping in Greece 2018; Mykonos, Santorini and Paros) Incredible Dhermi Albania (The Hidden Gem of the Mediterranean)    Amazing food photos from the road: South African Vegan Spot  Vietnam  Vietnam again India  The photo Nikki was waiting to take at Marble Mountain in Da Nang, Vietnam Be sure to write your REVIEW in order to be Eligible for the amazing Contest that has gifts from SpyEscape.com, Nixplay, Mizzen+Main, Eagle Creek, Foundation Training, Birch Boys Chaga Coffee, Tommy John Underwear, and Seven Corners Insurance.

Joe, Doxy and Brian did episode 30 in style with their monthly Live Show!  We talk the gamut of everything from Virtual Reality to Video Games to Hot Pockets. Want to know our favorite fast food french fries?  Guess you'll have to listen.Doxy played The Long Dark and talked about watching Flamebreak.  Joe is playing MLB 16 The Show, but no one cared, as well as Dark Souls III, which everyone cared muchly about.  Brian played Nights of Azure and Marble Mountain and goofed around with his new Gear VR headset. -- Watch live at https://www.twitch.tv/homerowpodcast

So everyone is in love with "Enter The Gungeon..." this week, we'll tell you why you should be too (and why you must also NEVER EVER ENTER IT) in our full review. Plus, the latest on our Linux Fest Northwest plans, "Marble Mountain," and three awesome deals (one of which is an absolute "YOU MUST BUY THIS NOW" bargain)... all this, plus a poem! www.bestlinuxgames.com Here's our vid of Gungeon from last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cSpJblz5f0

On this, the epic 27th entry in the odyssey of the Home Row podcast we welcome Alpacapatrol, our esteemed guest and nobleman. Slow news week – but that won’t stop KOJIMA KORNER!! The DICE Summit will feature talks from Kojima and Guillermo Del Toro about the creative process as well as Gearbox Software’s Randy Pitchford – check out some of the cool past talks from what is basically TED talks for games here (there’s one with JJ Abrams and Gabe Newell!) : http://www.dicesummit.org/ Brian went to PAX South – which was awesome and saw a TON of great games. Gushing about games like Umbrella Corps, Street Fighter V, Moving Hazard, Dead Star, Ultimate Chicken Horse, Stories: Path of Destinies, Marble Mountain, Enter the Gungeon and Omnibus. We learned there’s a thriving and passionate bus simulator community, Re/Core developers are hard at work on a really cool space game in the interim, and SF:V has some incredible artwork.Brian also got to try the HTC Vive with the aforementioned Marble Mountain, and this spawned a chat about VR yet again, which Alpacapatrol had some unique observations on what could happen that we’ve not heard before, while Doxy and Joe are still hype – Brian is showing his first signs of apprehension, or perhaps major bummage that VR might be a bit price prohibitive.Alpacapatrol has been playing Darkest Dungeon in the not-so-patient wait for XCOM 2. We found out that Alpacapatrol has about the same gripes that Brian did, finding a few things a little annoying, but realizing the game is overall very solid. He’s also been on some Adventure Capitalist as mobile fix for the time being. Doxy has been all over Might and Magic III – and everyone agrees it is awesome. While she wants more time, and finds it a bit brutal, it’s awesome and she can’t wait to get more going.Joe gushes about The Division after admitting he has a Battlefield and Halo problem again. The Division is shaping up to be something great after Joe got about 20-ish hours on two different platforms and is utterly impressed. Also impressive is that Joe went all tactical speak just like the stupid Ubisoft videos from the past few years. Alpacapatrol - www.twitch.tv/alpacapatrol / http://www.youtube.com/alpacapatrol  

Shawn Cunningham and Christian Schoen share insights from a PACA Exercise in the Marble Mountain cluster close to Da Nang, Vietnam. In particular, they discuss how slightly shady business practices impact on LED.

Hello. Today, I'll finish the story of our vacation to the East Coast of Canada. After over a week in Newfoundland, we worked our way back to Nova Scotia. Working our way back involved a lot more driving, and a rough ferry ride. We spent one night at my uncle's place, and then spent another night in Halifax. And then, we flew back West, back to the apartment we all know and love. :) In our travels, we played lots of mini-golf. Most courses along our way weren't in great shape, but they kept us occupied. We played one great course in Halifax, but we forgot our camera that day. One other course we played, which will be nice when they get it cleaned up, is at the base of Marble Mountain, near Corner Brook, Newfoundland. It certainly had the theme of Newfoundland, and I decided to dance there to celebrate a great holiday. [Apple format]   [Windows format] Holiday So, that's all I will say about our vacation. I hope you found my story enjoyable to read. In a few days, I'll have a new dance for you, from a familiar place. Bye! - Daily Dancer