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Quick Thoughts on Vail Resorts Acquisition of Mountain News Corporation

May 28th, 2010 17 Comments

I just finished my second mountain bike ride of the season – yep, I suck, should be way more than that – which is why I’m sprawled on the sofa with my laptop and I saw a link to a news release announcing the sale of Mountain News Corporation to Vail Resorts.  I’m sure that [...]

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Snow Reporting Research – Interesting, but Flawed

January 9th, 2010 No Comments

I saw this story about a Dartmouth study on ski resorts and their snow reporting, beguilingly titled “Wintertime for Deceptive Advertising?“, on NPR.org a few days ago. I immediately sent it to our snow reporters, so I could kid our weekend reporter about how he “exaggerates” more than our weekday reporter, but all kidding aside, [...]

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