• Against All Odds, Mt. Rose Did It Again: Opening Day Conditions Report

    “Yo. Mt. Rose is opening on Friday, are you going?”
    Sitting at my parents’ house in southeastern Pennsylvania, I received the text above from a friend. It was one of the most exciting texts I’ve received in a long time.
    It was Halloween, and while skiing is always on my mind, I assumed I would have to wait three, maybe even four weeks before making my first turns of the season. But thanks to the valiant efforts of Mt. Rose-Ski Tahoe’s snowmaking team and groomers, I wouldn’t have to
  • In This New Ski Resort Game, You Don't Just Build Resorts. You Ski Them.

    Do Patrick and Maverick Wilkinson like working together?It was a reasonable question for the father-and-son duo, I thought, because they’d spent the past several months toiling on a video game, going back and forth about features and gameplay. Surely, there was some friction.
    “You should probably ask him without me here,” said Patrick, the dad, mining for a laugh.
    He got one, but Maverick interjected and offered a sincere answer. 
    “There’s a very special kind of work environment when

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