Ragged Mountain has been recognized as one of the Beginner Friendly and Family Friendly ski areas in the North East, winning a 2016-17 Best in Snow Award, Powered by Liftopia.
Ragged Mountain’s General Manager, Ryan Schramm, has been involved teaching and coaching skiing from the youngest kids to experienced racers. As the industry has seen prices going up, and the cost of getting into the sport continues to climb, Ryan and the leadership team at Ragged Mountain Resort developed Mission: Affordable, a long term campaign designed to address the issue holistically. “Our objective is more than just to get people to say ‘I tried skiing’ or ‘I tried snowboarding,’ once,” explained Schramm. “We want them to say ‘I am a skier’ or a snowboarder, and to do that we needed to create a program that taught them to ski or ride and made it easy to continue with the sport for life. By the time they complete the three free lessons in the Bebe Wood Learn to Ski Free program, they qualify for a season pass for just $69 and an entire package of brand new Rossignol ski or snowboarding equipment for just a couple hundred dollars. It is the most affordable way to take up these great sports in the entire country, and it makes it affordable for a whole family to become skiers or riders.”
Ben Hall, Ragged Mountain’s Marketing Manager noted, “Early reports indicate our participants are returning for their second lessons at more than a 68% rate which is about four times the national average. That’s a lot of happy new skiers and riders. Everyone on the staff at Ragged fondly remembers our first time on the mountain, and we are delighted to be able to make it possible for so many more people to do the same.”
The 2016-17 Best in Snow Awards, Powered by Liftopia, are the pre-eminent rankings of the best and most beloved ski areas in North America. Unlike other rankings, this list the only one that incorporates the largest dataset in the industry combined with feedback from thousands of skiers and snowboarders to determine ski areas they are most passionate about.
To compile the awards, Liftopia surveyed their customers to measure their enthusiasm on specific aspects of their favorite resorts such as family friendliness, challenging terrain, crowds, and snow consistency and quality. More than 10,000 responses were then weighted with a proprietary algorithm based on Liftopia’s exclusive dataset that includes resorts’ total visits per season, acreage and average lift ticket prices to surface the best ski areas overall, across seven categories and five regions, based on what matters most to skiers and snowboarders.
“For years consumers have told us they wanted a ranking system that wasn’t based simply on which resorts were the biggest, relied on a handful of “expert” opinions or even pay-to-play advertising dollars. They wanted to know which ski areas that other customers loved the most,” said Evan Reece, co-founder and CEO of Liftopia. “We crafted the Best in Snow Awards using details from a consumer survey and our proprietary data to uncover the ski areas people are most passionate about, all over North America.”
Methodology and the complete list of winners in the 2016-17 Liftopia Best in Snow Awards can be found here: bestinsnow.liftopia.com/.
ABOUT RAGGED MOUNTAIN RESORT
Located in Danbury, New Hampshire just 98 miles from downtown Boston, Ragged Mountain Resort is situated on 2,100 acres on beautiful Ragged Mountain in the Lake’s Region. Ragged Mountain has 57 named ski trails, miles of hiking trails on-site, and plans for further expansion.
For more information on Ragged Mountain, please visit www.raggedmountainresort.com