{"id":804831,"date":"2020-03-03T10:57:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T17:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=379884"},"modified":"2020-03-03T10:57:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T17:57:38","slug":"colorado-ski-resort-pioneers-talk-about-the-industrys-roots-ski-pass-wars-and-how-to-deal-with-crowds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/colorado-ski-resort-pioneers-talk-about-the-industrys-roots-ski-pass-wars-and-how-to-deal-with-crowds\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado ski resort pioneers talk about the industry\u2019s roots, ski pass wars and how to deal with crowds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From left: John Norton, Andy Daly and Bill Kane share more than 135 years of experience leading the operations, planning and development of Colorado ski resorts. The trio gathered recently to ski a few laps at the private Cimarron Mountain Club. <\/strong>
Jason Blevins \/ The Colorado Sun<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

CIMARRON \u2014<\/strong> Andy Daly, Bill Kane and John Norton have more than 130 years combined experience leading, planning and marketing skiing and resort communities in Colorado. <\/p>\n

The trio are helping the investors behind the Cimarron Mountain Club hone a one-of-a-kind, powder-protecting community for 13 high net worth members and recently gathered for a few laps in the project\u2019s 1,750 acres of snowcat-accessed terrain near Montrose.<\/p>\n

Meet the three resort captains and read how they answered a few questions as we rumbled through old-growth forest in the shadow of the toothy Cimarron Range. Call it a Chat in the Cat. <\/p>\n

Andy Daly has a rich resume for a ski bum who came to Colorado for a working holiday and never left. Moving from his home in Massachusetts, he took a temporary job as a ski patroller at Aspen Highlands in 1970.<\/p>\n

The next season he was a full-time patroller. Then he moved to Copper Mountain, where he was patrol director, mountain manager, head of operations and, by 1982, president and CEO. Then he opened Lake Eldora Mountain Resort in 1987. He ran Beaver Creek, Eldora and Ski Broadmoor in Colorado Springs in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He served as president of Vail Associates, which became Vail Resorts, for most of the 1990s. He\u2019s served two terms as Vail mayor. He\u2019s closing in on a decade as co-owner of Powderhorn ski area up on the Grand Mesa. He\u2019s advised and consulted on dozens of projects. He\u2019s served on just as many boards and councils. And he\u2019s won just about every honor the ski industry can bestow. <\/p>\n

Read more via The Colorado Sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported news organization dedicated to covering the people, places and policies that matter in Colorado. Read more, sign up for free newsletters and subscribe at <\/em>coloradosun.com<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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From left: John Norton, Andy Daly and Bill Kane share more than 135 years of experience leading the operations, planning and development of Colorado ski resorts. The trio gathered recently to ski a few laps at the private Cimarron Mountain Club. Jason Blevins \/ The Colorado Sun CIMARRON \u2014 Andy Daly, Bill Kane and John Norton […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804831","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-20 03:05:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}