Inside the Mountain Gazette office in Kings Beach on a midweek morning earlier this summer, editor Mike Rogge was reading a 9,000-word draft written by Santa Fe writer Peter Kray.

Raised in the land of The last of the Mohicans and migrated to the beaches of Dharma Bums, Rogge enjoys a well-manicured terrain park or an open, untracked powder bowl. Skis on his tails but will ...

MIKE ROGGE, the editor and publisher of the magazine Outdoor Gazette, on the merits of communities taking back ski resorts from corporations. Advertisement ...