Podcast #226: Blue Mountain, Ontario President & COO Dan Skelton

Podcast #226: Blue Mountain, Ontario President & COO Dan Skelton

From The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast by Stuart Winchester

April 27, 2026 · 1h 22m

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Stuart Winchester interviews Dan Skelton, President and COO of Blue Mountain, Ontario, discussing the ski resort's features and personal skiing experiences.

Who Dan Skelton, President and Chief Operating Officer of Blue Mountain, Ontario Recorded on October 27, 2025 About Blue Mountain, Ontario Click here for a mountain stats overview Owned by: Alterra Mountain Company Located in: The Blue Mountains, Ontario, Canada Year founded: 1941 Pass affiliations: Unlimited on Ikon and Ikon Base Base elevation: 229 feet/750 meters Summit elevation: 1,480 feet/451 meters Vertical drop: 730 feet/223 meters Skiable acres: 364 acres/147 hectares Average annual snowfall: 154 inches/391 centimeters Trail count: 43 Lift count: 11 (5 six-packs, 1 fixed-grip quad, 1 triple, 4 carpets – view Lift Blog’s inventory of Blue Mountain , Ontario’s lift fleet) Why I interviewed him: A Very Dumb Story About a Very Dumb Person, Volume I In the winter of 1995-96, I developed Vertical Fever, a syndrome in which the afflicted believes, in a way that is beyond reason and immune from contrary arguments, that the skiing will be better if the ski hill is taller. This was a problem. Because in 1995, I lived, as I had all my life up to that point, in Michigan. Specifically, Sanford, a flat town in a flat county in what may be the flattest region of the country, the…

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