At the end of this month, the artist James Niehues will be inducted into the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame, in recognition of the almost 200 trail maps he has painted over his 34-year career ...

Powder Mountain, the first public-private ski resort in the U.S., unveiled its mountain map for the 2024-25 season, including four new lifts.

It's a far cry from the lackluster two dimensional map that Lookout Pass used to employ, and it better represents the expanse and layout of the ski area's terrain. Most notably, the new map, with a ...

Ski map illustrator James Niehues has hand-painted 200 ski resort trail maps collated in his new compilation book 'Man behind the Maps.' Skip to main content. Travel.

It wasn’t until the late ’80s that Niehues first ventured into the ski world. “I went over to see Bill Brown, he was a trail map illustrator at that time, hoping to just get a job or maybe ...

How To Read a Trail Map. Ski area maps are pretty intuitive and easy to read, but here are a few quick tips using a map of Mt. Bachelor as an example.

A map shows the ski forecast for the 2024/2025 ski season in the United States. Atmospheric rivers and bomb cyclones have dumped lots of snow in the Northwest, but some eastern resorts could ...

Smith’s map joins others kept by Aspen: Niehues painted the one for Highlands, while Snowmass and Buttermilk are from Bill Brown in 1984. Brown was the keeper of the flame before Niehues.