Classic view of Mirkwood and Orcs from the top of Elation. Troll’s Nose is the sunlit rib in the middle of the bowl and delineates Mirkwood Bowl from Orcs. This is a fun feature to ski and has a few different options depending on which route you drop. It also provides some challenging mitigation work for our patrol and cat…
Here is a look down Sleepy Hollow and out to the Sawatch Range.
While we sleep in our warm beds, dreaming of tomorrow’s turns, our Slope Maintenance team is hard at work prepping the mountain. This dedicated crew starts their shift at 11pm each night. They fire up our Prinoth snowcats, brew a fresh pot of coffee, review the grooming requests for the night and draw up their plans to deliver the goods.…
Park Crew wraps up their morning work on the Never Summer Freestyle Terrain under the glow of a full moon.
This last round of snow enabled our Ski Patrol crew to open another piece of terrain in Mirkwood. The Cat Skiing guides had been working this terrain along with our ski-packing crew for several weeks. This process involves explosives and lots of ski-cutting and side stepping down the slopes. More details describing their work is described in this post from…
After a couple of nights with a dusting, we are hoping that these next few rounds will deliver a bit more. Things picked up this afternoon and the morning should be good. It looks to snow most of the day on Tuesday as well.
While waiting for the next round of snow, we have had some amazing bluebird days around the Christmas holiday. Warm temps with light winds have delivered great weather for a Mirkwood hike. In addition to hikers, we also have snowcats and snowmobiles sharing this over the snow road. We ask that all uphill traffic stay on the right side of…
After a long and difficult year, we hope that Santa leaves some new skis under the tree! Happy holidays to all!
