With the continued snowfall since our opening on December 1st, our Ski Patrol team has made a concerted effort into additional terrain. This work has enabled us to open up a lot more skiing and riding in our Black Diamond terrain. Open trails now include all of Pano Ridge (Mirage, Sheer-Rocko, High Anxiety, JR’s, Zipper and Dire Straits). Patrol was…
The Cat Skiing operators have been pushing out and building our over-the-snow roads in our MCS terrain. The ridge roads usually get built out fairly quickly while the drops to the pick ups take a bit more effort. Several of these drops involve the use of a winch cat to lower and raise the snowcat into and out of this…
It’s good to be riding lifts, making turns, and seeing friends back at the mountain once again. We do have early season conditions to be mindful of, but there is some really good skiing/riding to be had if you know where to look. Sidewinder, Romp, Upper Tango, Great Divide, Ticaboo, Picante, Little Joe, Drifter, Liberty, Short N Sweet, Toddler, Freeway,…
Well…we tried. Despite our best efforts to open the mountain for day two, Mother Nature had other ideas. We’ll try it again tomorrow.
The season is in front of us and the mountain is ready. Come and get it.
With the most recent snowfall and additional storms in the forecast, we will be opening tomorrow on Thursday-December 1st!! Mountain operations has been hard at work getting everything ready for the big day. Here are the details on what lifts and terrain will be open: Lifts Open-Caterpillar, Panorama, Pioneer and Tumbelina Easiest/Green Trails– Butterfly, Drifter, Glade, KC Cutoff, Liberty, Little…
Snow is in the forecast and we’re all hopeful that it will enable Monarch Mountain to open soon. With the incoming storm this week, we are closing uphill access effective at 4pm today (Monday-November 28th) 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…
Our snowcat operators have been out track packing over the last few weeks and are now further testing the grooming equipment. While the blade is one of the most important items on the cat as it pushes snow where it needs to be while leveling the slopes, the tiller is the tool that creates the magical surface we ski on.…
There is snow in the forecast and we will be skiing & riding soon.
Our Lift Maintenance crew has recently put the final touches on the Tumbelina counterweight enclosure. I posted last year about the major upgrades made to the Tumbelina Lift. In this post, you can see the exposed counterweight in this location. Our goal with this project was to eliminate the need to back-drag the lodge side of the counterweight with a…
