Okay. So, we may have ended up with a bit more wind than snow this week. On Tuesday, we saw sustained winds in the mid-forties and sustained gusts between sixty and seventy miles per hour. After the previous week’s wind challenges with mid-day gusts and wind holds, we decided to just go ahead and call this one early and cancel…
It was a perfect bluebird day on Saturday and a spectacular morning sunrise today. A change in the weather will arrive this afternoon and appears to stick around for most of the week. It looks like we could see a few inches of snowfall each day and will end up with a foot or so of snow by Friday. Should…
We just wrapped up two days of hosting our annual IFSA junior freestyle event. The U12 crew showed their stuff on Thursday and the 12-14 age group styled their way down High Anxiety on Friday. We had planned to host the older group today in Mirkwood Basin, but yet another wind hold on Breezeway brought about a change for the…
Here is an awesome pic from a birthday trip out on the cat. Treat yourself to some birthday turns if you get the chance! HBD Krista! Photography by Casey Day
The Sawatch Range looks incredible after this week’s snow storm. Our high peaks are often scoured on the windward side and loaded on the lee side. This week’s storm delivered snow with upslope winds and just about every aspect is now covered. Enjoy the view!
It was the upside down world. In 24 seasons up here I’ve never seen a day where the only aerial lift we could run was Breezeway. Usually, this is always the first lift to be placed on wind hold. We had a peak gust of 64mph out of the NE at the top of Mirkwood right as we were trying…
Thought it was time for an update here. We are currently still working our way through the NEPA process with the No Name expansion proposal. As mentioned in an earlier blog post, we had several specialists visit the area last summer and fall. We recently had a site visit with the USFS and the SE Group. The specialists reports are…
Ok. They aren’t real roads. They are snowcat roads that are made from snow. We call them over the snow roads. They are built bit by bit over the course of a couple of months by our cat skiing operators who farm the snow as it comes in pushing further and further out after each storm. Our operators handle the…
