The community of Steamboat Springs has grown accustomed through the years to changes in the ownership of Steamboat Ski Resort. And, by definition, ownership changes are both unsettling and healthy at the same time.

As we anticipate the closing in early fall of the sale of Intrawest Resorts and Steamboat Ski Resort to a new company being funded and created by Aspen Skiing Company and KSL/Capital Partners, there are many questions to be answered. But resort officials are unlikely to be free to discuss many of them until the deal is done.

#What we think we know, without a doubt, is that the ski resort industry has reached an era in which it is becoming increasingly difficult to exist as a fiercely independent, standalone destination resort. That applies not only to Aspen and KSL’s Squaw Valley/Alpine Meadows, but also to Steamboat Ski Resort.

Read more at Steamboat Today.