Bob Ackland 10/16/26 Bob Ackland 10/16/26

Guiding the Mountain: Why Vision and Mission Matter

Big or small, independent or corporately owned ski area, this discipline of having and living by your vison and mission statements are the underlying components of success at your ski area.

Bob Ackland 10/13/26 Bob Ackland 10/13/26

One Platform for Real-Time Snow Safety and Operations—Respond Faster, Document Better, Reduce Risk.

Why Every Ski Area Should Use SmartMountain

Running a safe, efficient mountain is a race against time, terrain, and changing conditions. Patrol teams need real-time awareness. Risk managers need accurate, defensible records. Operations leaders need one source of truth to coordinate lifts, incidents, and on-hill work. SmartMountain—developed by Earth Analytic—brings all of this together in one platform designed specifically for snow safety and ski patrol operations.

Bob Ackland 10/12/26 Bob Ackland 10/12/26

Built for the Mountain. Shaped by the People Who Run It.

Lift Maintenance technician in a ski lift motor room doing the preoperational checks prior to the lift being turnover to the public. MountainOffice makes it easy and visible to all who need to know.

Bob Ackland 10/8/26 Bob Ackland 10/8/26

An inflection point for the US ski industry?

Bob Ackland 8/13/26 Bob Ackland 8/13/26

Beyond the Epic Pass: Can Vail Resorts Pivot to Guest Experience?

The many facets of staff interacting with skies and riders at a ski resort

Bob Ackland 8/13/26 Bob Ackland 8/13/26

In the Maintenance World at a Ski Area, Do Vision and Mission Matter?

two important pieces of the skia area puzzle.

Bob Ackland 7/15/26 Bob Ackland 7/15/26

Perfect Timing as MountainOffice Releases Version 1.9.1

New MountainOffice system dashboard that can be set up by user, and has multiple widgets that can be set up.

Bob Ackland 7/15/26 Bob Ackland 7/15/26

Is Your Ski Area the One You Think It Is?

Same Ski Area two organizations looking at on another. How to manage?

Bob Ackland 6/17/26 Bob Ackland 6/17/26

How Jackson Hole Turned 50 Years of Avalanche Data into a Live Operational System

Bob Ackland 4/30/26 Bob Ackland 4/30/26

Manager? -------- want to be a manager?

Bob Ackland 4/30/26 Bob Ackland 4/30/26

Lift Maintenance – What Is That?

Bob Ackland 3/4/26 Bob Ackland 3/4/26

Avalanche Awareness and the Changing Climate

Bob Ackland 3/4/26 Bob Ackland 3/4/26

Success Comes from a Team Effort

Bob Ackland 3/4/26 Bob Ackland 3/4/26

SmartMountain Expands: Enhancing Ski Patrol and Incident Management

Bob Ackland 1/28/26 Bob Ackland 1/28/26

Snowmaking - Full-TIME ATTENION

Bob Ackland 10/26/25 Bob Ackland 10/26/25

A Story of Outstanding Leadership at a Ski Area

Size doesn’t matter when it comes to Leadership

Bob Ackland 10/22/25 Bob Ackland 10/22/25

You Can’t Manage What You Don’t Measure

You can’t manage unless you measure.

Bob Ackland 9/23/25 Bob Ackland 9/23/25

MountainOffice with New Update Takes a Big Step

Bob Ackland 9/23/25 Bob Ackland 9/23/25

Changing the Culture

A look at step 4 in the process of culture change.

Bob Ackland 8/13/25 Bob Ackland 8/13/25

A White Paper Studying 5 years of Data from ARENA System

Showing year over year snowmaking expenses at Gastein Ski Area, Austria, one year without ARENA and the other with ARENA.