Peterson Equipment Company has served ski areas, parks, and nordic centers across the Mountain West since 1963 — and, increasingly, the ranches, mountain homeowners, and first-time owners who've discovered what a PistenBully can do. All from a single dealership in Hyde Park, Utah, on the doorstep of the Wasatch and Bear River ranges.
Peterson Equipment has been doing this since 1963. The lineup has changed. The technology has changed. The size of the team has grown. But the operating principle hasn't moved: ski-area operators deserve a dealer who shows up — at 8am for a quote, at 6pm for a fix, at 2am when something's broken and the call needs to be made.
The team here are the people I'd want working on my own machines if I were running a resort. They know PistenBully cold. They know your operation by name. They ski, ride the cats, and care about your corduroy as much as you do. None of that is by accident — it's why we hire who we hire and how we run the place.
If you've worked with PEC before, you already know what to expect. If you haven't, the easiest way to find out is to pick up the phone. (435) 752-5110 gets you a human. I might even be the one who answers.
PEC started in 1963 with a simple thesis: ski area operators are underserved by dealers who treat snow grooming equipment like agricultural machinery. Snow groomers run at night, in storms, on terrain that punishes hardware. They need a dealer that understands that — and operates the same way.
Sixty-three years later, that's still the operating principle. The lineup has changed. The territory has grown. The team has tripled. But the answer to "who do you call when a tiller fails at 9pm" is the same name it's always been.
And these days that call comes from more than ski areas. Ranches, mountain homeowners, recreation properties, and private-road communities — people who'd never run a snowcat before they met us. Turning a first-time buyer into a PistenBully owner for life is the part of the job we love most, and we'll find the machine that fits, new or used, at a price that fits the budget.
Opens in Logan, Utah as the original dealer for Thiokol — the snowcat line built right here in Logan that would later become LMC.
Joins forces with PistenBully and takes over distribution across Idaho, Utah, Montana, Wyoming, and South Dakota.
Builds a new purpose-driven facility in Hyde Park, Utah — the home base for sales, service, and parts.
Becomes the #1 dealer of PistenBully snowcats in North America — and hasn't looked back.
The next chapter begins.
The right machine for your terrain, your altitude, your operation — not the machine with the best margin. If a 400 is the right answer, we don't sell you a 600.
Every PistenBully we put on a mountain gets full-service backup from PEC. Factory-trained, fully stocked, on call. The sale is the start, not the end.
$2M on the shelf means a part shipped Monday is a part you needed Sunday — and we've already figured out which parts those are.
We ski with our customers. We share meals at the resort cafeteria. We text from chairlifts. We meet at industry events, at golf days, at after-hours fix-it calls when something goes sideways. Resort directors become friends. The work is fun because the people are — and after sixty years, that's the part we're proudest of.
The job — and the friendships — both happen on the mountain. Jim with the operations team at a partner resort. The PE polo, the thumbs up, the laughs. This is most days.
The work doesn't stop at the deal. Industry events, customer golf days, off-season catch-ups — the relationships outlast any single sale. That's the whole point.
PEC isn't a middle-man dealer. Our team works directly with Kässbohrer leadership in Germany — at the dealer summit, on the factory floor, over dinner at industry events. We see new products before they're announced, give feedback on what North American operators actually need, and bring those relationships back to the Mountain West.
That's how we stay current on what's coming — and how we make sure resort operators here get the same dealer relationship that European alpine areas have had for sixty years. PistenBully, SnowSat, ProAcademy, PowerBully — all under the Kässbohrer umbrella, all backed by direct contact with the people who actually engineer the machines.
An authorized dealership is more than a contract — it's training, certification, parts access, software, support. PEC is fully credentialed across the Kässbohrer family of brands, and every member of our team trains directly with the manufacturer.
The world's leading snow groomer brand. PEC has been an authorized PistenBully dealer since 1963 — backed by the engineering and supply chain of parent Kässbohrer Geländefahrzeug AG.
PistenBully's technical and operator training program. Every PEC technician annually recertifies through ProAcademy.
Fleet management and snow-depth telemetry — included with new PistenBully deliveries and supported by our team.
Hyde Park, Utah — twenty minutes from Beaver Mountain, two hours from Park City, four from Sun Valley. Stop in, kick the tracks, talk to the team. Coffee's on.
