Skiing’s lone wolf: Davey Pitcher’s family-owned Wolf Creek stands out in an increasingly corporate industry

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Skiing’s lone wolf: Davey Pitcher’s family-owned Wolf Creek stands out in an increasingly corporate industry

Story first appeared in: WOLF CREEK SKI AREA “I think I’m going to drive for this stretch,” says Davey Pitcher, wedging in next to the operator in the one-man cab of a snowcat that shuttles skiers into the powdery glades of Horseshoe Bowl.  Both sides of the 1990s-era LMC 3700 cat’s tracks are hanging over cliffs as Pitcher, the 62-year-old boss and owner whose father took over the bankrupt Wolf Creek Ski Area in 1976, pilots the machine across…