Developer. Skier. Builder of things that last. I write about real estate, resort development, and the mountains that keep me honest. Operator-first takes from the slopes to the job site. Let’s build something.
The numbers seem impossible to square. U.S. ski resorts logged 61.5 million visits in 2024-25, the second-highest season on record. Globally, we hit 399 million skier visits. Demand has never been higher. And yet, Vail Resorts—the behemoth that supposedly owns the industry—reported skier visits down 14.
Dan Ski & Build · New Ashford, Massachusetts · April 2026 Brodie Mountain went dark in 2002. Sold again in late 2023. And now, more than two decades after its last run, a $200 million plan wants to bring it roaring back — not just as a ski area, but as a full-blown,
History, Present, Future, and a Trip Report By Daniel Kaufman | Dan Ski & Build | Keweenaw Peninsula, Michigan There are places that demand you earn them. Mt. Bohemia is one of them. No snowmaking. No grooming. No beginners. Just 273 inches of Lake Superior powder, 900 vertical feet of uncut terrain,
Spring skiing, live saxophone, Veuve Clicquot, and a lesson the corporate ski industry refuses to learn. There’s a wall at Black Mountain in New Hampshire covered in signed Veuve Clicquot bottles. Not as decoration. As a record. Every bottle represents someone who came back. Someone who showed up, year
On Boyne’s drift, Killington’s reawakening, and the little mountain in New Hampshire that quietly showed everyone how it’s done. By Daniel Kaufman | April 2026 I’m a Sunday River pass holder. I own property there. I love that mountain — the eight interconnected peaks, the snowmaking that won’
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