skiing

Resorts rush to cover trails in time for holiday

DOVER- The cold rush is on. With the weather forecast calling for mostly mild weather during the next week or so, snowmakers scrambled early this week to take advantage of a window of cold weather that allowed area resorts to cover trails and open for the Thanksgiving weekend.
Despite...

“We’ve all been burned by Jim Barnes”

Reconstituted club plans reopening on December 12
WILMINGTON- Selectboard members met with Hermitage Member Club officials at their regular meeting Tuesday evening.
Hermitage board member Jeff Koslowsky the club was gearing up for its first season as a member-owned...

Crews working on the Barnstormer lift at the Hermitage Club on November 3. RC

Crews working on the Barnstormer lift at the Hermitage Club on November 3. RC

Club plans to get members safely on slopes

WILMINGTON- Haystack Mountain at the Hermitage Club has been shuttered for the past two winter seasons, following a bankruptcy filing and a fight for ownership between club members and previous owner James Barnes. That tug-of-war for ownership of the club was finally settled earlier this year...

Winter is on its way. Snow blanketed the Haystack Mountain trails and parking lots at the Hermitage Club on Tuesday. Early season storms have given everyone a taste of the coming winter.
Photo by Randy Capitani

Winter is on its way. Snow blanketed the Haystack Mountain trails and parking lots at the Hermitage Club on Tuesday. Early season storms have given everyone a taste of the coming winter. Photo by Randy Capitani

Code Red! COVID limits could make for a tough winter

MONTPELIER- Vermont businesses dependent on outdoor sports tourism may be in for a lean winter. At a press conference on Tuesday, state officials said the number of people in the Northeast who can travel to Vermont without a quarantine had dwindled to just 332,000. Those who can travel to...

Mount Snow General Manager Tracy Bartels

GM says safety, getting through winter, are top concerns

DOVER- Customer safety during the winter season is the overriding concern for Mount Snow and Vail Corp. That was the message delivered by Mount Snow General Manager Tracy Bartels and Senior Manager of Communications Jamie Storrs during an online “town hall” meeting with local businesspeople on...

Mount Snow general manager Tracy Bartels, in a photo taken at Mount Sunapee, NH, last winter. Bartels took over Mount Snow’s top spot in April.

New Mount Snow GM looks to connect with the community

DOVER- When Tracy Bartels took over the general manager’s job at Mount Snow in early April, to say the transition was unusual is a big understatement. After all, the mountain had been shut down on March 15 after the coronavirus pandemic was declared, people around the valley were reeling from the...

Bill Benneyan

New GM ready to take Hermitage Club out for a spin

WILMINGTON- Hermitage Members Club manager Bill Benneyan compares bringing the private ski resort back into operation after more than two years of dormancy to taking a classic luxury car out of storage.
“It’s like taking a very fine automobile that has been parked in the driveway for a...

Chairlift to get new life

LONDONDERRY- Magic Mountain is purchasing and installing Stratton’s current “Snow Bowl” Poma fixed-grip quad chairlift as a new base-to-summit lift for the 2019 season. The Poma quad lift will replace Magic’s current Black Chair which had been operating as a double passenger capacity lift. The...