What Were Frisco and Copper Mountain Like Before the Great Recession?

Part One: Summit With the help of our knowledge bank, you can choose for variations in your new neighborhood by: Age, Stage, Status and Affluence, and Population Density An excerpt from Book Three in “The Knowledge Path Series” dedicated to helping you find the place of your dreams. 5-Year Time Frames — 2003 – 2008 What about …

Summit

Monied ‘Burbs, Celebrities, Ski Resorts: Pre-Great Recession Lifestyles Profiles-At-A-Glance This contours along the “Continental Divide, an imaginary line that marks the flow of precipitation. Rain falling on the west of the Divide makes its way to the Pacific Ocean. Rain on the east makes its way to the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean.”   An …

Mammoth Lakes: From Hardships to Hope

Then in June, management at Mammoth Mountain, the resort that dominates the town, trimmed staff, cut salaries and announced the shuttering of its June Mountain ski operation.   By the Winter of 2013 -2014 the first Premier Resort lifestyle segment flew into the scene –  midlife families on the fast-track taking advantage of the real …

What Was Mammoth Like Before the Great Recession?

We began coverage of Mammoth Lakes during the Summer of 2008. Across mountain towns in California (Mammoth), Montana (Whitefish) and Colorado (Pagosa Springs, Durango and Silverton) the younger Distant Exurbans those 56Y3T4 Millennials disappeared.   An excerpt from Book Five in “The Knowledge Path Series” dedicated to helping you find the place of your dreams …

Bishop’s History and Migrating Lifestyle

Who were the first non-Native Americans to roam the northern end of Owens Valley? The one BOF lifestyle to say goodbye to Bishop, said hello to three Colorado and three California mountain resort towns.   An excerpt from Book Five in “The Knowledge Path Series” dedicated to helping you find the place of your dreams …

Bishop

Bishop is a welcomed retreat with much (much) warmer weather than Mammoth. We put together a “Birds-of-a-Feather” lifestyle list of possible communities across western states.   An excerpt from Book Five in “The Knowledge Path Series” dedicated to helping you find the place of your dreams in the Sierra Mountain resorts. We introduced this section …

Regions

“Mountains, canyons, waterfalls and unusual landforms give life to wide variations of vegetation. Year round recreational opportunities satisfy lovers of fishing, hiking, bicycling, rafting, hot air ballooning, skiing, ice-skating and snowmobiling.” How have the Pagosa Springs profiles changed between Summer of 2008 and the Winter of 2013-2014? An excerpt from Book Three in “The Knowledge …

Wild

“Colorado Wild works as a part of the Southern Rockies Conservation Alliance, a coalition conservation organizations dedicated to protecting Colorado’s public lands, air, water, and wildlife habitat.” Ski Resorts Ranked from sucks to top of the class: Sun Valley, Copper Mountain, Aspen. An excerpt from Book Three in “The Knowledge Path Series” dedicated to helping …

Off the Grid or Out of Your Mind?

“The big houses, the Humvees, the SUVs, all of that is just the same here and in a way, people are really conspicuous consumers here in the country just like in the city.“ Self Reliance: escaping Laguna Beach, building a cabin in the Durango wilderness. An excerpt from Book Three in “The Knowledge Path Series” …