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I thought this was pretty awesome that Hyland made the list of best ski resorts in the Midwest in the Oct. Resort Issue of Freeskier. Only 11 resorts were listed in this category, and another MN resort, Spirit Mountain, also made the cut. Way to go Hyland!
Sorry but no it was not. Here is the list, and they aren't rated in any particular order
Boyne Mtn. MI., Chestnut Mtn Resort,IL., Crystal Mtn., MI, Hyland Ski Resort, MN., Jack Frost/Big Boulder, PA., Mad River,OH., Nubs Nob, MI., Sevens Springs, PA., Spirit Mtn.,MN., Sundown Mtn, IA. and Tyrol Basin, WI.
Well, it is a matter of reporting on the quality of parks. It is evident when ridding certain parks that the ski area spends very little time and money on their park, they simply do not care. Whereas some ski areas, chestnut for example salaries an employee who has been to cutters camp (paid for by the ski area), and pushes snow for a minimum of an hour and a half or more every morning and the ski area pays a very good wage for a digger or more to walk around and fine tune the features. As a publication they should give credit where credit is due as they did with chestnut, but there are better ski areas around than Sundown that most people do not know about that deserve recognition in a list in a specialized periodical.
Also, sundown is poor as hell too and does not invest enough money or resources into their park...they simply do not care anymore about having a park...they even fired their park manager at the end of last season...he just got a job at park city...I have only lived in this area for two years so all I know about the surrounding ski areas is what people say once was...but i did work at sundown for one year before being offered a job across the river and that is one poorly run operation at sundown with no effort to capture their future customers (youngpark rats of today who will have kids tomorrow)...they will even pull a locals pass for spinning slightly of axis...all in all if an industry publication is going to publish information about an area that they specialize in they need to do some f@&kin' research...Would it make any sense if SAM magazine wrote an article stating that devils head has perfectly maintained chairlifts?
