No Name Basin will open on Thursday-January 29th. With the most recent storm, our team of snowcat operators, patrollers, and lift operations teams have been hard at work prepping the terrain. We will have a mix of groomed and off-piste conditions available for skiing and riding. It has been a long time coming and we can’t wait to share this…
It’s been a fine time to get in some laps in Mirkwood Basin. The boot pack to the top is in fine shape and it’s been very friendly hiking weather. The bowl has consistent top to bottom chalky conditions and the trees are still holding some soft turns. Things are about to change with a big storm on the horizon. …
All in all, we are doing well and our on mountain conditions are better than most out there in Colorado. Many of our visiting pass partners from other ski areas continue to comment that Monarch is looking and riding pretty darn nice in comparison to their home mountain. We have 94% of the terrain on the front of the mountain…
A few of us were able to attend the NSAA Winter Conference at Snowbird Ski Resort in Utah. The National Ski Areas Association is made up of over 300 ski areas across the nation and hosts this event at different resorts each winter season. There were two days of educational sessions that covered a variety of pertinent ski industry topics…
We had a recent opportunity to tour the new 25-acre Skytrac facility located in Tooele, Utah (just outside of Salt Lake City). This new facility includes all the fabrication, welding, plasma cutting, sand blasting, painting and manufacturing infrastructure for building Skytrac Lifts. The building is 130,000 square feet and shares some space with Leitner Poma and Prinoth Snowcats. Skytrac has…
We picked up another 6″ of snow this week. It wasn’t the big storm we have been looking for, but it definitely made the turns soft and fun over the last few days. Patrol was also able to open some additional trails on the frontside of the mountain and we continue to push out and work the NNB and MCS…
Thanks to the hard work of our Ski Patrol, MCS guides/operators, and our ski-packing crew, Mirkwood is now Open! This team diligently prepped this terrain during the month of December to be ready when the snow returned. The dense snow from last weekend’s storm was just enough to get a good portion of Mirkwood Basin open. Orcs, Mirkwood Bowl, Mirkwood…
Today is a perfect day after yesterday’s storm passed through. The high density snow set up well and is skiing great! Our grooming team has several trails tilled to perfection and the off piste areas are holding some very nice surfy and supportive snow. Enjoy!
