Craig Richardson
speaker
213 appearances
13 recordings
2 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 3d ago
Craig Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That's Nate Shake.
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He's the mountain operator at Bogus Basin, a downhill ski resort near Boise, Idaho.
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And they've stored snow the last two summers.
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When it's a hundred plus degrees, his crew turns anxious.
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A little, but not much.
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They invested a hundred and twenty thousand dollars in insulation materials.
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And Shake says it's worth it to have the guarantee of even a little snow.
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Shake says Bogus Basin rakes in about thirty percent of its annual profits during the winter holidays.
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And last year it would have missed out.
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There wasn't any snow, and it was too warm for the man-made kind.
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But the big pile from the previous winter bought them time.
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And if lift tickets are selling, people are likely spending money in town.
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That's something Paul Beerman is seeing in northern Vermont.
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He's an environmental scientist at the University of Vermont.
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And he says snow storage has helped revive the local Nordic ski area.
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The resort now stores snow in a pond basin covered in wood chips, a technique Beerman helped with.
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But Beerman calls snow storage a band-aid for ski resorts.
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He says figuring out how to slow or stop warming winters is the only foolproof business plan for guaranteeing skiing.
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I'm Caitlin Tan for Marketplace.
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Tim Quinlan with Wells Fargo doesn't give a lot of weight to the month-to-month transportation equipment order data.
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