Photography by Dale Dougherty
Heavy Lifting
Placing huge towers up a mountain is just the start to reaching Troy Caldwell’s ski-resort-on-a-budget dream.
SIXTEEN YEARS AGO, TROY CALDWELL went to buy 10 acres from Southern Pacific and got a sweet deal on 400 acres of land, most of it mountainous, near Lake Tahoe. A ski bum who left college to learn the sport, Caldwell eventually became part of the U.S. Ski Team in the 1970s, and he says he’s been part of the ski industry (which he pronounces “SKI-in DUS-TREE”) ever since.
Caldwell’s dream is to build his own private ski facility. Lacking the big bucks, he decided to build it himself, ...
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