Ski Brodie is an independent guide to skiing and the outdoors in the Berkshires. It is not owned by, affiliated with, or speaking for any resort, hotel, venue or tourism body. Nothing on the site is a press release, and nothing here is published on behalf of a business.
That is worth stating plainly, because a good deal of destination writing is produced by the destination.
How the material is put together
Articles here are written from published sources, public records, operator information and direct observation, and are cross-checked where they can be. Where something varies between operators or changes from season to season — opening dates, prices, hours, height limits — the site describes how the arrangement works and points the reader at the operator for the current value.
That is a deliberate editorial choice rather than laziness. A guide that publishes this season's prices is wrong by next autumn and misleads every reader who arrives afterwards. Describing the mechanism ages better than describing the number.
Where a resort, business or organisation is named, it is named as a third party. The site takes no payment for a mention and has no arrangement with any of them.
The fuller statement of how the site is run is on the editorial policy page.
Corrections
Errors get fixed. If something here is wrong, out of date, or has been overtaken by a change on the ground, the contact page is the way to report it, and corrections are made without argument.
This applies particularly to businesses. If your operation is described inaccurately, say so and it will be put right. What the site will not do is remove accurate but unflattering information, or publish supplied promotional copy.
Images
Photographs on this site are either licensed stock, used under the terms of their licence, or produced for the site. Where an image carries an attribution requirement, the credit appears with it.
The site does not republish photographs taken from operators' websites or from third-party archives.
For anyone wanting to use material from this site: text and images here are not offered under a blanket licence. Short quotation with a link is fine and welcome. Anything more — republication, syndication, use in print — needs asking about first, via the contact page.
Press enquiries
Journalists writing about the Berkshires are welcome to get in touch through the contact page.
Two things worth saying in advance. This site cannot arrange access, comment or interviews with any resort — it has no relationship with them to draw on. And it is not a substitute for the operators' own press offices, which is who a journalist covering a specific business should contact.
What the site can do is point at sources and explain how something in the county works.
Following the Berkshires
For anyone wanting news about the county from people who live in it rather than visit it, the local press is the place to start. Berkshire County supports a daily newspaper and several weeklies, along with public radio, and between them they cover the things a visitor guide does not — local government, the year-round economy, the seasonal workforce and the arguments about development.
The county's cultural institutions each publish their own calendars, which are the authoritative source for performance dates. The overview of who they are is on cultural attractions.
For conditions on the hills, the operators' own reports are the only current source, and they are updated daily through the winter. How the season is structured is on when the hills run.
About the name
The domain is named for Brodie Mountain, a ski area in New Ashford that operated for several decades and was known for years as Kelly's Irish Alps, after the family that ran it. It was celebrated locally for its St Patrick's Day festivities, green snow included, and it stopped public skiing in 2002.
The name is kept because the site covers the hills and the valley that Brodie sat in, and because that history is part of what makes skiing here what it is. The site is not connected to the former operators and makes no claim to be their successor.