It’s good to be riding lifts, making turns, and seeing friends back at the mountain once again. We do have early season conditions to be mindful of, but there is some really good skiing/riding to be had if you know where to look. Sidewinder, Romp, Upper Tango, Great Divide, Ticaboo, Picante, Little Joe, Drifter, Liberty, Short N Sweet, Toddler, Freeway,…

Well…we tried. Despite our best efforts to open the mountain for day two, Mother Nature had other ideas. We’ll try it again tomorrow.

The season is in front of us and the mountain is ready. Come and get it.

With the most recent snowfall and additional storms in the forecast, we will be opening tomorrow on Thursday-December 1st!! Mountain operations has been hard at work getting everything ready for the big day. Here are the details on what lifts and terrain will be open: Lifts Open-Caterpillar, Panorama, Pioneer and Tumbelina Easiest/Green Trails– Butterfly, Drifter, Glade, KC Cutoff, Liberty, Little…

Snow is in the forecast and we’re all hopeful that it will enable Monarch Mountain to open soon. With the incoming storm this week, we are closing uphill access effective at 4pm today (Monday-November 28th) until the mountain is open. With the large increase in uphill traffic (skinners) that we have hosted the last few seasons, we have recognized that…

Our snowcat operators have been out track packing over the last few weeks and are now further testing the grooming equipment. While the blade is one of the most important items on the cat as it pushes snow where it needs to be while leveling the slopes, the tiller is the tool that creates the magical surface we ski on.…

There is snow in the forecast and we will be skiing & riding soon.

Our Lift Maintenance crew has recently put the final touches on the Tumbelina counterweight enclosure. I posted last year about the major upgrades made to the Tumbelina Lift. In this post, you can see the exposed counterweight in this location. Our goal with this project was to eliminate the need to back-drag the lodge side of the counterweight with a…

Here is a look at the mountain and Monarch Ridge from the Snowburn trail. The crew was able to add some Panorama trails to those that have been track packed this week. All in all we have around twenty trails packed and prepped for the next storm cycle. Most of our terrain continues to hold snow with the cold temps…

I toured around near the end of the day to check out the backside trails. The Slope Maintenance crew has been conducting additional track-packing on the mountain over the last few days. Several of our trails on the backside of the mountain have now been track packed and prepped for the season including Upper Tango, Romp, Roundabout, Toddler, Sidewinder, Drifter,…