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The First Ski Bums
2013-05-03 15:50:10| Railroads - Topix.net
I think migration to the far-away, snow-covered mountains of the West really began in a railroad yard in Omaha, Neb., during the summer of 1936.
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Vail Daily columnist Warren Miller: Ski 'bum' isn't quite right
2013-04-27 11:54:23| Railroads - Topix.net
I think migration to the far-away snow-covered mountains of the West really began in a railroad yard in Omaha, Neb., during the summer of 1936.
New Solar Tracker Installation Helps Berkshire East Become World's First ski Area Fully ...
2013-04-24 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
CHARLEMONT, Mass.– From its lifts and lodges to its snowmaking, a new solar installation has helped the central Massachusetts family run ski area, Berkshire East, become the world's first ski area to be powered entirely from on-site renewables.<br /> <br /> The year-round resort recently developed a 500kW solar tracker farm that will produce 700,000kWh annually. The solar farm will supplement a 900kW wind turbine the company installed in 2011. Together, the two systems will cover the ...This story is related to the following:Green & CleanCommercial & Industrial Solar Power Systems | Solar Energy Power Supplies | Solar Energy Controls |
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Climate change turns an already troubled ski industry on its head
2013-03-02 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
High Country News: George Shirk sits in his office at the Mammoth Times on a Saturday afternoon, with his dog, Fido, who writes his own weekly column for the paper, curled up underneath the desk. Early December is the quiet time between the Thanksgiving and Christmas rushes at Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, and Shirk, a 60-year-old news veteran with a sandy smoker's voice, has kindly agreed to give me an armchair tour of his adopted hometown. Mammoth Lakes is perched in the Eastern Sierra, a half-day's walk from some...
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Ski area report card dings four Colorado resorts with expansion plans
2013-02-11 17:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Denver Post: Ski-area expansions in Colorado and other Western states may please skiers, but they rile environmentalists. The annual Ski Area Environmental Scorecard -- prepared by an environmental coalition including Denver's Rocky Mountain Wild -- found nearly a third of Western ski areas surveyed in 2012 either expanded terrain or planned to develop new terrain. The growth in ski-area footprints led the Ski Area Citizens' Coalition to assign a lot of D's, including four for resorts in Colorado. Those...
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