James Coleman and Mountain Capital Partners Enters into Operating Agreement with Nordic Valley Ski Area.

James Coleman and Mountain Capital Partners Enters into Operating Agreement with Nordic Valley Ski Area.

Utah Resort Joins the MCP Family of Ski Resorts

Durango, Colo. –  James Coleman, managing partner of Mountain Capital Partners, recently announced that he is entering into an operating agreement with Skyline Mountain Base, LLC to manage and operate Nordic Valley Ski Resort.

“We’re excited to add Nordic Valley to our family of ski resorts and begin working with the resort staff,” stated James Coleman, managing partner of Mountain Capital Partners.  “Nordic Valley is a fantastic ski area and is consistent with our goals as a company of making skiing affordable to everyone in order to continue growing the sport.”

Nordic Valley Ski Resort, located in Eden, UT and only 25 minutes from downtown Ogden, was first established in 1968.  Nordic Valley offers beginner, intermediate, and advanced terrain for skiing and snowboarding with 140 skiable acres, 23 trails, four lifts, a terrain park, and snowmaking which covers 60 percent of terrain.  The Utah ski area receives an average of 300 inches of snow annually, and has a 965 foot vertical. It also features a day lodge, rental shop and ski & snowboard school.

“We are very happy to partner with Mountain Capital Partners, who will run the operations of Nordic Valley starting this month,” stated Laurent Jouffray, Skyline Mountain Base, LLC board member.  “We’re committed to the success of the resort and its future developments, and are confident that it will become one of the best ski resort destinations in the U.S.”

Nordic Valley is a family-friendly resort, known for its ski and ride school and beginner terrain. The boutique ski area became known internationally as the best downhill training ski area for the 2002 Winter Olympics.

Coleman announced that the 2018/2019 Nordic Valley season pass has been reduced this year and will be offered at $299 for adults and includes unlimited access with no blackout dates to Nordic Valley, as well as Sipapu Ski & Summer Resort in New Mexico, Pajarito Mountain in New Mexico, and Hesperus Ski Area in Colorado, which are also managed by Mountain Capital Partners.

Mountain Capital Partners also offers the Power Pass at $599 for adults which provides endless mountain

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experiences at ski resorts in Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, and will now include the Nordic Valley Ski

Resort.  With the Power Pass, ski enthusiasts receive unlimited access with no blackout dates to Purgatory Resort, Arizona Snowbowl, Sipapu Ski & Summer Resort, Pajarito Mountain Ski Area, Hesperus Ski Area and Nordic Valley.  The Power Pass also offers three free days at partner ski resorts including:   Copper Mountain (CO),  Powder Mountain (UT),  Loveland Ski Area (CO),  Monarch Mountain (CO), Grand Targhee Ski Resort (WY), Brundage Mountain Resort (ID), and more.  The 2018/2019 Power Pass is currently on sale at the lowest price of the year through Apr. 20, 2018.  All kids who are in fourth grade and younger receive a FREE 2018/2019 season pass. For more information, visit the Purgatory Power Pass webpage here.

In the summer, Nordic Valley offers a variety of activities for all ages, including lift-served mountain biking and hiking, an 18-hole disc golf course, a 400-foot long slip-n-slide, bungee trampoline, Nordic Nights Saturday evening concert-series, and more.

Skyline Mountain Base, LLC is a group of U.S. and European investors.

For more information on Nordic Valley, visit the website, NordicValley.com.

Media may use these HIGH RESOLUTION images of Nordic Valley Ski Resort - photo credit:  Nordic Valley Ski Resort

Media Contact:

Kim Oyler  | [email protected]   | (970)749-2086

About Mountain Capital Partners

Headquartered in Durango, Colo., Mountain Capital Partners (MCP) owns and manages the largest collection of ski resorts in the Southwest, including Purgatory Resort, Arizona Snowbowl, Sipapu Ski & Summer Resort, Pajarito Mountain, Hesperus Ski Area and Colorado’s largest snowcat skiing operation, Purgatory Snowcat Adventures, as well as Nordic Valley Ski Resort.  In total, the resorts feature more than 38,000 skiable acres, 268 trails, 36 lifts, 15 terrain parks, plus a variety of summer activities, such as mountain bike trails, scenic chairlift rides, an alpine slide, a new mountain coaster at Purgatory Resort (coming in summer 2018), and more. James Coleman is the managing partner of MCP, which has invested more than $40 million at its five resorts over the past four years alone, adding new chairlifts, trails, snowmaking, and other improvements.

Skiing with Santa

Ski ALL OF UTAH 2017

Nordic 50th anniversary

Nordic Valley Ski Resort welcomed 2018 with a special 50 th Anniversary fireworks display that wowed the crowd..
Honoring its roots as a family friendly ski resort, Nordic Valley set off their celebration at 7:00 pm New Years Eve to enable all ages
to attend the festivities. The torchlight parade simultaneously kicked off with the beginning of the fireworks show. The fireworks
sparkled reflecting off of the snow and a special 50 th Anniversary emblem was lit off at the end of the fireworks. Cheering revelers
enjoyed the show as well as the Carne Asada Tacos offered in the Nordic Grill.
The 50th Anniversary New Year’s Celebration honored the beginnings of the Resort.  Bringing back the original Nordic Valley logo.  So many reminiscent of  "I learned to Ski at Nordic Valley" 
In the fall of 1960 Arthur Christiansen purchased the Silver Bell Ranch from Taylor Burton in Liberty, Utah.
Part of the property was located on mountainside terrain, so additional plans were eventually made to develop a ski hill with two
chairlifts and several ski runs for the beginning, intermediate, and advanced skier. In the mid 60's, the hillside made for a popular
toboggan, sledding and tubing area to locals. In the latter part of the 60's, the Nordic Valley Ski Area was born, the sledding hill was
equipped with a tow rope and soon became known as the beginners ski hill. A few years after that the ski area was expanded to
include a double chairlift. Additional terrain was prepped, cleared and Nordic Valley offered more ski runs in 1970. A short time after
that the tow rope on the beginner's hill was replaced with a 2nd chairlift.
Lights were also installed along the main lift to the top of the hill with lights following some of the runs down to the bottom of the hill.
With the completion of the lights, the ski hill was one of the first ski areas in Northern Utah to offer night skiing which soon became a
popular and convenient time to ski. Mr. Christiansen named the area Nordic Valley, mainly because of his Norwegian ancestry. The
Nordic Valley Ski Lodge was named Odin Hall.  Before it was a lodge, it was a hay barn complete with two hay shoots that ran from
the basement of the structure all the way to the roof reaching two cupola vents situated on top of the barn, tack rooms were located in
the basement.

The festivities were enjoyed by all! Thank You Art Christiansen for starting the beginnings of something very special! Happy New
Year!!

Music Saturday Nights at Nordic Valley

The Kap Brothers will Open the Summer season at Nordic Valley performing Saturday June 25th 5-8 pm. $10 per car.

The brothers first played Nordic Valley back in the 70's.   Nordic Valley has seen a few changes over the years, but remains  a favorite hometown venue for locals.  Enjoy the comfort and hospitality of having a back yard BBQ with friends and family.   Bring your lawn chairs, blanket, cooler, and the neighbors.  Nordic Grill is open Saturday 10am-8pm, We offer  an affordable menu and, once you smell the fries and hamburgers on the perfect evening,  you will wonder why you brought a brown bag!  The resort will be having live music on  select Saturday nights and some amazing events.  For more information on events visit nordicvalley.com and please  sign up for emails..

Nordic Valley Announces that it Will be Coming Out of Hibernation This Summer

Nordic Valley is excited after a great winter to continue the affordable family fun.  Opening June 18th summer operations, weekends Saturday and Sunday thru August 21st.  Nordic Valley will run the Apollo lift to the top of the resort. The lift will give you access to mountain biking, and hiking trails and our new summer addition 9-hole disc golf course with rental discs available. Come cool off and make a splash in our new inflatable 400 ft slip and slide.  Get away from the crowds and enjoy the outdoors and spend a stress free day at Nordic with activities like volleyball and corn hole. Nordic is bringing back a Northern Utah favorite, Music on Saturday Nights featuring local entertainers in concert. Bring up the family pay by the car full and picnic on our grassy hillside and relax to the sounds while you enjoy the fine eats from our barn Café. Alternate nights will feature a premier DJ that will play all the latest tunes with an assortment of oldies.

Nordic Valley is also available for company or private parties, family reunions. Weddings and special events the beautiful mountain side be the perfect venue with views that make saying “I Do” the perfect portrait.  

For more information and pricing contact Nordic Valley 801-745-3511.

Visit Ogden - Ski 3 Passes

Remember the local ski hills of yesteryear? A rope-tow, a couple of chairlifts, a shanty-town of shacks that performed various functions...one to sell tickets, one to serve coffee and hot chocolate, one to thaw out frozen ski patrollers. The parking lot was a tailgate party with thermoses of coffee, coolers of beer and hibachi grills searing burgers and dogs. It was back when skiing was a pastime; long before it became an "industry."

With the "corporatization"  and industrialization of skiing, most of the shacks have been torn down to make room for posh lodges that serve 5-star cuisine. The shacks that remain on the periphery have been converted to storage sheds for snow shovels and such. Rope tows have given way to high-speed quad lifts, even on the bunny hill. It's considered "progress," and most skiers are content to take the good with the bad.

As more and more local ski hills are swept up in acquisitions, mergers, buy-outs and takeovers, they fall under various "mondo-pass" models...buy a single pass and gain access to dozens of resorts. It sounds good in theory, but it has its drawbacks.

It's not unlike Disneyland, where, once you've dropped several hundred dollars on entry, you become a bit of a hostage, forced to drop several hundred more on your Disney-diet of Mickey-burgers and Minnie-fries.

The old days of spending your season's ski budget chasing storms, buying day passes around the west and checking off a dozen new resorts has been replaced with trying to log enough ski days at a couple of "participating resorts" to justify the purchase of your "mondo-pass." Gone is the sense of adventure, exploration and discovery that comes from road-tripping to different resorts.

However, for those looking to step back in time, there is no better place than Ogden, Utah. The city itself has been able to maintain the relevant architecture and feel of its booming history that so many other cities bulldozed during the strip mall phase of the 1970s.

The resorts that surround Ogden range from the old-school learning hills of the past to the most opulent resorts around. Even more impressive is the fact that these diverse resorts have retained their independence, while coming together to offer their own take on the "mondo-pass" idea: Ski 3.

Designed to attract out-of-area skiers, the deeply discounted pass is available to any visitor who books two nights of accommodations in or around Ogden. Here's how it works:

Upon check-in at any participating lodging partner...and options run the full gamut from major hotel chains (Hilton Garden Inn, Courtyard Marriott, Hampton Inn, Comfort Suites, Holiday Inn Express, etc.) to boutique offerings to short-term condos and home rentals...the front desk provides a card with a promo code.

The card provides the details, but it goes something like this...you go to skiogden.com where you'll find a simple interface that lets you purchase as many "Ski 3 for $139" packages as you have guests in your party, using the unique promo code. Upon completing your transaction, you'll receive a text message on your phone. That text message will walk you through the rest of the process. It will include a link that will open your internet browser and invite you to drop a home-screen icon on your phone. From that app-like icon, you'll have access to your passes and be able to share them with other members of your party if you want.

Here's the best way to take advantage of your "Ski 3" passes:

NORDIC VALLEY: This quaint little resort is one of the few remaining "hometown ski hills" in existence. It's very much like the resorts of yesteryear described above. It is the perfect place to get your ski legs under you after traveling to the area. Your Ski 3 pass can be used for a full-day pass or night skiing...ideal if you arrive in Utah in the afternoon. Three lifts serve a variety of terrain and the entire resort is accessible for night skiing.

Simply take your phone to the ticket window and present the electronic pass information. The ticket agent will redeem the passes and give your your lift tickets.

POWDER MOUNTAIN: Until Vail's acquisition and merging of Park City and The Canyons resorts last year, Powder Mountain was the largest ski area in North America. With over 7,000 acres of lift-served, cat-served and backcountry terrain, this is a resort you want to hit at first chair and ski until close. Recently purchased by the Summit Group, Powder Mountain is in that transitional phase between the hardcore locals' secret spot and what looks to become a significant development boom.

The drill is the same. Present the electronic passes on your phone to any of the three different ticket windows around the resort and get your lift ticket.

SNOWBASIN: Snowbasin was the venue for several events during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games, including the marquis event, the downhill. With amenities that rival more well known swanky resorts like Deer Valley, Snowbasin features two high-speed gondolas and several high-speed quad lifts as well as opulent lodges and fine dining.

Present your electronic pass information at the Activities Desk in Earl's Lodge to obtain your lift passes.

If your party should decide to go separate ways and ski different resorts on a given day, passes can easily be separated and texted to various individuals.

Of course, your Ski 3 experience should include the apres ski scene in downtown Ogden among its galleries, eateries and bars. More details are available at skiogden.com