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Search complete. 11 mentions across 7 episodes found for "Intrawest".
Oct 16, 2026
AdamHOST
Yeah
Jules HeatonGUEST
... sort of Intrawest, I think it was, when it was built.
Jules HeatonGUEST
Yeah.
AdamHOST
Yeah.
Mark StevensGUEST
I'll tell you another interesting one, too.
Mark StevensGUEST
So you, you probably never heard of, what's the, Intrawest.
Mark StevensGUEST
You ever hear of Intrawest?
Ronnie SpellmanHOST
No.
Mark StevensGUEST
So Intrawest owned the, most of the big ski resorts in the United States, 10 big ski resorts.
Mark StevensGUEST
It was founded by a guy who was a son of a Saskatchewan deli owner.
Mark StevensGUEST
He put up $5,000 to start the business.
Ronnie SpellmanHOST
Okay.
Lance GlynnHOST
Sure.
Ed PitoniakGUEST
Um, and I got to know the people within it very well, and I was very fortunate in 1996 to get the opportunity to go to work for a company called Intrawest, uh, which was based in Whistler, BC, and I got the opportunity to go to work for i- one of the most brilliant business leaders and operators I will ever know, a man named Hugh Smythe.
Ed PitoniakGUEST
And, uh, I, uh, I asked my wife at a point when we were living in Montclair, New Jersey, and I was working at Two Park Avenue here in New York, which is where Ski was located at the time, and I said to my wife, "What do you think about moving to Whistler, British Columbia?"
Lance GlynnHOST
[laughs]
Katie SteinharterGUEST
And now he works for OpenSnow, so we're back in the same world, and I got an interview with what became Alterra.
Katie SteinharterGUEST
At the time it was Intrawest, so that was cool.
Ian DallimoreHOST
Were you, were you literally on a ski lift whenever you got the phone call?
Katie SteinharterGUEST
I was literally on a ski lift.
Chris McKeeHOST
i want to get into some of your history i mean you've been around bc golf a long time i mentioned you know 35 years back with with richard zockel and that so what made sagebrush the right job for you to come there
Chris HoodGUEST
Well, two of the gentlemen who had a management agreement to manage the property for our owners, I used to work with them at IntraWest Golf back years ago in the early 2000s, actually at Swanee Set.
Chris HoodGUEST
IntraWest used to own that property.
Chris HoodGUEST
amongst others, and they managed a bunch of golf properties both in the U.S. and Canada.
Kevin BuppHOST
What did you believe about this real estate that maybe others, um, obviously there's plenty other buyers out in the marketplace, but maybe others that they didn't see the opportunity that you saw?
Ed PitoniakGUEST
To give the context for how I viewed the real estate that eventually comprised the VICI portfolio, I'm gonna take you through a 30-second run-through of, okay, how did you get from Ski Magazine to VICI? Well, Ski Magazine led to going to work for a, a ski resort company called Intrawest.
Ed PitoniakGUEST
It's now known as Alterra.
Ed PitoniakGUEST
Um, and I got to spend eight years in ski resort operations, which were incredibly valuable learning experience.
Kevin BuppHOST
And so we'd love to talk about that a little bit, you know, maybe take us back to that period, you know, just how, how Vici came together and, and I I guess more importantly, what did you believe about this real estate, the Caesars properties? What did you believe about this real estate that maybe others, obviously there's plenty of other buyers out in the marketplace, but maybe others that they didn't see the opportunity that you saw?
Ed PitoniakGUEST
To give the context for how I viewed the real estate that eventually comprised the Vichy portfolio, I'm going to take you through a 30-second run-through of, okay, how did you get from Ski Magazine to Vichy? Well, Ski Magazine led to going to work for a ski resort company called IntraWest.
Ed PitoniakGUEST
It's now known as Altera.
Ed PitoniakGUEST
And I got to spend eight years in ski resort operations, which were incredibly valuable learning experience.