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Dry Conditions And Economic Headwinds Combining To Blow Back Bookings And Occupancy At Western Mountain Resorts

December 16, 2025

Winter Park, Colo. Dec. 16, 2025 – With the critically important holiday season coming up fast, Mother Nature has been unusually stingy with snowfall across most of the West. And despite the stock markets going gangbusters and savings accounts rising, other economic news, such as higher prices and lower job numbers have had a chilling […]

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Protect the U.S. Winter Outdoor Industry from Harmful Tariffs

November 17, 2025

As the winter season begins, burdensome tariffs are currently applied to key products essential to winter sports participation. These unnecessary tariffs act as a direct tax on our consumers, discouraging them from purchasing new gear and participating in winter outdoor sports. This, in turn, threatens the health of the outdoor recreation economy, which generates $1.2 […]

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Take Action Against The Tariffs

June 16, 2025

Protect the Winter Outdoor Industry: Urge Congress to Act on Tariffs The winter outdoor industry relies on a global supply chain for materials used in domestic production while also depending on specialized international manufacturing to produce the high-performance equipment U.S. consumers demand. However, the current tariffs on imported materials and finished goods are placing an […]

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The Winter Sports Sustainability Network’s Annual Meeting: A Report from Munich

December 11, 2024

Last week, the SIA team attended the Ski Industry Climate Summit, hosted by Atomic, and the Winter Sports Sustainability Network’s (WSN) winter meeting during ISPO in Munich. Over 200 ski industry leaders came together, showcasing remarkable collaboration among the sector’s biggest hardgoods brands – united to share ideas, data, and best practices. The focus was […]

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Guidance: Certification of PFAS Compliance

April 10, 2024

Guidance for Using the Certificate of PFAS Compliance Template: Why?Brands must provide certificates of PFAS compliance to retailers signed by an authorized official and can be electronic. Retailers should share this template with vendors of apparel and/or textile articles to allow those products to be sold in New York or California. The Rule:California: prohibits the […]

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Joining The Global Climate Conversation

May 3, 2023

Last month, at the invitation of the Federation of the European Sporting Goods Industry (FESI) and their partner, Peak 63,  SIA had the opportunity to join a meeting of the FESI-Winter Sports Network (FESI-WSN) hosted at the ELAN headquarters just outside of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Making up the FESI-WSN coalition is the market share of the […]

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Winter 2023: The Catalyst For Climate Action

January 17, 2023

If you’re in Europe, you’re seeing one of, if not the worst winters on record – warm spring-like temperatures on New Year’s Day and snowless slopes still at most resorts, devastating local economies and a winter outdoor industry that had high hopes for an epic European winter. Meanwhile, here in the U.S. over 20 inches […]

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Help Adopt Clean Cars II In 2023!

December 5, 2022

Colorado Businesses: Help Adopt Clean Cars II In 2023! We want to make you aware of an important piece of climate legislation currently being considered in Colorado, and ask for your assistance to help get it across the goal line. Advanced Clean Cars II (ACC II) is a proposed policy that states can start adopting […]

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What Happened At COP27?

December 1, 2022

Happy December, winter is here! The last couple of weeks have been very busy on the climate front, so first, I thought I’d provide a quick recap of COP27, the annual global climate conference that took place in Egypt in November. As you may remember, back in 2015 at COP21, 196 countries signed The Paris Agreement, […]

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Winter Outdoor Industry For Ukraine

March 18, 2022

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has forced millions of innocent Ukrainians to flee their homes and fight for their lives without adequate supplies, clothing or personal items to survive. We are witnessing the mass displacement of families and individuals in the harsh cold of winter – it is a devastating tragedy, and an urgent humanitarian […]

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