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When & Why The U.S. Forest Service Surrendered Veto Power Over Lift Ticket Rates
“The public makes the final vote on lift tickets by paying the price” - White River National Forest Supervisor Tom Evans, 1978
 • Stuart Winchester
The 1969 Brick Wall That Halted U.S. Forest Service Ski Area Development
“All over the West the last decade has witnessed major new development proposed only to see them denied.” - USFS officials in 1980
 • Stuart Winchester
How Did the U.S. Forest Service Lose 75 Ski Areas?
The agency once oversaw “over 200 ski areas.” Today, that number is 125. What happened?
 • Stuart Winchester
The Secret Ski Hack of 1979? The Season Pass
Season passes, now skiing’s powerhouse product, were once elusive, expensive, and rare
 • Stuart Winchester
Skiers Have Always Complained About Lift Ticket Prices
“I am in a very fine financial position … but I cannot afford for four members of my family a $6 ski ticket” – a Mr. Sylvester Heinberg, testifying…
 • Stuart Winchester
Big Skiing Sued; Sets $392 Beaver Creek, $349 Deer Valley 2026-27 Peak Lift Ticket Rates
McBrosephs do we think there could be a connection?
 • Stuart Winchester
A Day at Breckenridge, the Wacky Lift Laboratory at the Top of the Rockies
The nation’s most popular ski area is also somehow its most eccentric
 • Stuart Winchester
Ski Industry Resists Congress' Permanent Daylight Savings Time Proposal
“I’m not sure what industries would benefit from a shift to permanent DST, but it’s not the ski industry.” - Snowbird President and General Manager Dave…
 • Stuart Winchester

July 2026

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