The contractors are putting the finishing touches on the Mountain Ops Annex.  As described in an earlier post this summer, this facility will be located next to our Patrol HQ and will provide offices, locker rooms and meeting space for our Ski Patrol, Base Operations/Parking Lot crew, and our Terrain Park Crew.  Nice to be getting to the finishing line…

This might be my favorite fall photo!  The trails in No Name Basin are just about complete and look amazing from this perspective with the fall colors in the foreground. The timber crew has pulled the harvesters and forwarders off the mountain while their Timber Pro masticator is still on the job site polishing up the last few trails on…

The fall colors in Colorado are a moment in time that doesn’t last long. It’s a perfect juxtaposition of gold leaves and a brilliant blue sky. The mornings are crisp but the days warm up and are set up for an afternoon hike or mountain bike ride. Chaffee County has some incredible trails to explore and you should take advantage…

The weather has returned to cool mornings and warm afternoons since the short lived winter storm last weekend.  This dry weather will enable us to finish up our fall projects and tidy things up before winter shows up in earnest. The fall colors down in No Name Basin on the opposite side of the creek are showing their stuff.

The crew from VM West have completed bringing timber from the cleared trail corridors in No Name Basin down to the deck locations on the frontside of the mountain. The deck at Pano and the Tubing Park have been cleared out. The semi-trucks are now working on clearing out the large deck of trees in the upper parking lot. We…

It felt like coming home to see snow blanketing the mountain this morning.  As I said earlier, these early snows don’t stick around, but they sure look nice!  If you look close enough at the photo, you can see that someone even got out for a couple of turns on just a few inches of snow.  Cred.

Mother Nature delivered a bit of September Snow last night.  It’s just 3-4″ of snow and will melt out this week, but it gives us a look at what’s to come!

It may not quite be official on the calendar, but it’s starting to look and feel like Fall up here. The aspens on Syncline Hill are popping and the mornings are feeling crispy.  It looks like we are going to jump right into some winter weather this weekend and sometimes these early storms can make it a short season for…

The lift line for the No Name lift has been cleared from top to bottom.  This involved cutting and processing the timber, hauling it up the slope utilizing the Ponsse forwarder with its integrated winch system, and finally masticating all of the slash on the trail corridor.  This final step cleans up the timber debris, creates a skiable surface and…

It’s an amazing sight to see a sparkling blue lake nestled high among the Alpine peaks.  We have a few of our own up here on the Divide with the cluster of lakes in the Waterdog Basin.  These are located just on the east side of the Continental Divide with our cat skiing terrain perched above.