Park City Mountain Resort Blog

POWDR Corp Receives Green Leadership Award

Susan Wickwire, Chief of the Energy Supply and Industry Branch of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency presented Brent Giles, Director of Environmental Affairs for POWDR Corp, with a 2008 Green Power Leadership Award in Denver yesterday. The annual awards recognize the country's leading green power purchasers for their commitment and contribution to advancing the development of the nation's voluntary green power market.

Download the EPA Award press release, learn more about POWDR Corp and their environmental vision or see what Park City Mountain Resort is doing to reduce our energy use and emissions.

Keep up the great work Brent and get a look at Brent in action in this clip on Forecast Earth from the Weather Channel (Brent's part starts about halfway in) - it's really cool stuff.

Less than a month to go!

Where did the Spring/Summer/Fall go?! I looked up at the mountain yesterday and  suddenly all of the leaves have disappeared - makes me think of some of the great ski days I had last season... and today, I found a great article in our local paper about snowmaking at PCMR and Deer Valley. As the article notes, our snowmaking team is ready to roll and are just waiting for some consistent temps to allow them to fire up and really start the 2008-2009 winter season.

While we all wait for colder weather, I'm trying to wrap up a number of online projects, but I've also got a whole slew of new ideas floating around, as I was recently inspired by some very smart people at a Marketing Profs conference I just got back from.  BTW, if you have the chance, check out  Gary Vaynerchuk who, I have heard, may be doing a wine tasting tour at various ski resorts this winter (Gary, if you're in the Park City area, drop me a line and I'll personally give you a tour of Park City Mountain Resort). And if you're not Gary, please let me know if there are any questions you have that I could cover in our blog, or any questions in general that I can help you answer - post a comment or send me an email to erich (at) pcski.com.
In the meantime, let's start some snow dances!

More Lift Pix

Wow, I go away for a week and when I get back it feels like winter has arrived - well, at least at the beginning of this week it felt like winter, I think it was in the low 20s each morning through Wednesday! Today was a beautiful bluebird day, perfect for taking pictures of construction on our new Crescent Lift. Actually I wanted to get up top and get photos of the top terminal, which I hear is complete, but I didn't quite have time. Hopefully I'll get Jeff, our Lift Operations Manager, to send me some photos to post next week. In the meantime, here's a few photos that I took this afternoon: