By Kurt Repanshek, The Salt Lake Tribune  Knight-Ridder/Tribune 
Business News  

PARK CITY, Utah--Aug. 16--POWDR Corp., launched in 1994 by Salt 
Lake City  entrepreneur Ian Cumming to facilitate his move into the 
ski industry with the purchase of the Park City Ski Area and 
California's Alpine Meadows, has added two smaller resorts to its 
portfolio.  

The Boreal and Soda Springs ski areas, small day-use areas just off 
Interstate 80 near Truckee, Calif., were acquired last week through a 
stock purchase, corporate officials said Tuesday. The purchase price 
was not disclosed.  

Although paling in size to Park City with its 2,200 acres of skiable 
terrain and Alpine Meadows with 2,000 acres, Boreal at 300 acres 
and Soda Springs with 150 acres are considered valuable because of 
their proximity to Sacramento, about 100 miles to the west. 

"These areas are very different, catering to a different skier market 
than either Alpine or Park City," said Werner Schuster, executive vice 
president of POWDR Corp.  

Boreal also will give POWDR Corp. some experience with 
snowboarders, who  currently are not allowed at either the Park City 
or Alpine Meadows resorts. 

"Boreal's high base elevation and established snowmaking system 
will give us an advantage early in the season," POWDR Corp. 
President John Cumming,  

Ian's son, said in a news release. Boreal, which counts two quads 
among its  nine chairlifts, attracted roughly 200,000 skiers last 
winter, while Soda  Springs, which has two double chairs, lured 
between 20,000 and 30,000 skiers  with its weekend operations, said 
Schuster. Both areas have vertical drops of  roughly 500 feet.   

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