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Jon Weisberg

Short Swings!

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Mike and I want to report on our progress and thank readers, editorial contributors, advertisers, and online collaborators for your support. We also want to ask for a favor.

SeniorsSkiing.com is starting the fourth year of publication. We went online in April 2014.

During that time we’ve grown from a handful of page views each month to almost 35,000 during the height of the season. Since November, more than 200,000 people visited the magazine. Most spent a few minutes per visit. The number of new subscribers since last April has grown 72%.

Our mission is to serve and represent the interests of the 50+ snow sports enthusiast. In keeping with that goal, we’re more tortoise than hare. Slow, steady, and highly mission-focused.

The community formed around SeniorsSkiing.com is interested and engaged. We know that because of your unusually robust responses to reader surveys. Twenty-seven percent of you responded to the most recent, an unusually high amount for any website or online magazine.

At this time, the modest revenue we receive from advertisers lets us pay for a variety of web services, graphics, and other projects.

There’s one advertiser in particular we’d like to attract. It is KneeBinding, which presents itself as “The only binding proven to help protect your knees on skis.” Our readers, older skiers, are an important part of KneeBinding’s target audience, and we believe that the company will make a good investment by advertising with us. The company head tells us he agrees, but he’s not convinced advertising in a non-print publication will help his sales.

The favor we’re asking is for you to help us convince him to advertise and to provide information about protecting senior skiers from future ski injuries. Please leave a reply (below) expressing your interest in having KneeBinding as an advertiser and a source of information about avoiding accidents related to falls. We’ll forward them to the company.

Thank you!

CALIFORNIA

The 2017-18 Tahoe Super Pass is now on sale starting at $499, with free spring skiing starting April 1 at Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows. Record snowfall means Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows will be open into June and on July 4.

MONTANA

Big Sky Resort named Bob Stinchcomb vice president of business development. He has 20 years ski industry experience, mostly at Vail Resorts.

UTAH

Snowbasin Resort is offering free skiing and snowboarding through the remainder of the season with the purchase of any 2017-2018 season pass. Seniors (ages 65-74) pay $499. A separate Super Seniors (75+) pass with reduced benefits is $49! Purchase at www.snowbasin.com.

WYOMING

This short Teton Gravity Research video from Jones Snowboards shows Freeride World Tour champion Sammy Luebke doing remarkable things on impossibly steep cliff-covered verticals. Enjoy!

OTHER

This has nothing to do with snow sports. It’s a website that shows how stuff — usually big stuff like bleachers, telephone poles, industrial equipment — gets recycled into other stuff and for other purposes. It’s interesting. Repurposed Materials

Jon Weisberg

Short Swings!

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Tuesday I was sledding with grandkids in Manhattan’s Central Park.

I arrived a few days earlier in New York unprepared for winter; felt it from head to toe. Wednesday, I stepped out of Salt Lake International Airport into 75F. The resorts are reporting temps in the 40s and 50s. It’s expected to cool off later next week. My experience in this part of the world is that the first two weeks of April generally deliver large snowfalls. Will it happen this year? In New York my fingers were frozen. Now they’re crossed.

CALIFORNIA

Next season’s Tahoe Super Pass is available for purchase now. Buy before April 18 to get extra savings. Multiple plans are available. The most luxe offers unlimited skiing at Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows plus 50% at all Mountain Collective resorts, plus free skiing from April 1 to end of season, plus other benefits. 65+ costs $719; 76+ costs $389.

COLORADO

Aspen Highlands will host an old school bumps challenge at its Freestyle Friday, noon March 31. Should be a blast with neon one-pieces and other retro garb.

OREGON

Registration now open for the Ligety Weibrecht Ski Camp at Mt Hood. From the website, it looks like a terrific experience for teen-aged grandkids.

QUEBEC

The Canadian Alpine Ski Championships will be held March 24-28 at Mont-Tremblant.

Stoneham Mountain Resort issued a short artsy video of skiers and boarders on its Olympic half pipe. It appears that the riders are jumping in front of a massive screen filled with colorful images.

UTAH

Park City’s Grand Summit Hotel in Canyons Village will undergo $15 million in renovation this spring, after which it will become a RockResorts property. The project is expected to be completed by mid-summer.

Snowbird‘s free Plaza Deck Concerts are scheduled for every weekend starting March 17 through May 14. Always good for a nice afternoon vibe.

VERMONT

Okemo Mountain Resort’s on-the-snow beer festival is slated for April 1. This will be the third year for the one-day Hops in the Hills event. Admission is free and open to the 21+ crowd, but there’s a fee to sample the 10 seasonal brews. Food also on tap.