It’s always great to get the mountain open in November as it builds the momentum for the season. While natural snow is always worth the wait, time off in early winter can delay our team’s work on the mountain and our guest’s confidence in planning their days skiing and riding. Once our crews are up here, we start pushing out…
It was a beautiful bluebird day with fun turns and good friends. Here we go!
We are excited to open ahead of Thanksgiving for the first time since 2020! Looking back historically at the more than fifty years of records I have access to, we have opened prior to the holiday weekend about 70% of the time. It’s just been a bit of a delayed start these last few seasons. So, it’s good to be…
As mentioned in several earlier posts, we have some really great snow overall with just a few skinny areas along the ridgeline. We side stepped Romp today to assist with setting up a stable base instead of dropping a 22k lb. winch cat down the face and risk pulling up debris with the tracks or winch cable. The soft ridges…
Guest Blog from Chris Haggerty, GM Monarch Mountain It’s our favorite time of year – We will be kicking off our 85th season on Friday, November 22, 2024. Each year, our goal is to start the lifts as early as possible, and thanks to Mother Nature and the relentless efforts of our incredible mountain operations team, a November opening is…
With this most recent storm, we’re making plans to open Monarch Mountain soon! We are closing uphill access effective at 4pm today (Tuesday-November 19th) 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 there is a public safety issue as we prep the slopes…
The Mountain Ops team continues to work towards getting the mountain ready for the winter season. The snowcat operators have been dozing snow and track-packing the slopes while our patrol team has started stringing ropes and hanging tower pads on the lifts. All of our departments wrapped up their seasonal trainings last week and the company is ready to go.…
We picked up another four inches of wind transported snow yesterday afternoon and into the evening. The winds were from the southwest helping to transport snow onto our northeast aspect slopes along the ridge that were scoured by the upslope winds last week. Every little bit helps. The snowcat operators have been out on the mountain all day dozing snow…
It’s been a stormy week with lots of snow AND lots of wind! While the snow has been a welcome site, unfortunately the 70mph upslope winds mid-week also partially or completely scoured several areas. These zones include but are not limited to; Sleepy Hollow, Freeway, Lower Glade, all of Pano Ridge, Breezeway, and several of the ridgeline trails near the…
