The new RFID Gantries have arrived and await installation. These units have a mast that will stand vertical near the front of our lift mazes with a horizontal boom that swings out from the top. From this boom, there will be gates with reader panels that hang down to create the areas where our guest’s RFID cards can be authorized…

The new restrooms have been installed near the base of Panorama and adjacent to Shredders, our wintertime mid-mountain food service operation. The facility will offer two unisex vault toilet restrooms. This improvement will offer a convenient on mountain pit stop while spinning laps on a pow day.

The logging work continues across the highway on Monarch Ridge. The crew from Miller Timber started up near the top of the pass a few weeks ago and is working north along the ridge towards where they finished off last fall. Already looking a lot different over there.

Our new 3500 sq. ft. storage building has been delivered and is awaiting construction while foundation work is completed. The four-bay building will be located in the SW corner of the Vehicle Maintenance parking lot (seen in the background of this photo). This facility will keep heavy machinery out of the elements when they are not being utilized and have…

We are running a few thousand feet of trenches to our base lifts. We are installing fiber optic lines along our base area summer maintenance roads that will support our new RFID gates, scanners and camera network. Who’s a good boy?

The Paradise Lot looks like the surface of the moon. Or that a lot of insects have been hard at work. In reality, we are actually prepping to break up a rock shelf that is hindering some of the excavation and dozing efforts. We are contracting with a third party to conduct blasting activities as part of our parking lot…

There is a lot of digging going on. Our initial foundation work has begun for the new Axess RFID gates that will be installed at the bottom of all ski lifts. In addition to this earthwork, the parking lot expansion, trenching for a fiber optic network, vault toilets at Pano flats and foundation work on a new snowcat storage facility…

Our timber cutting operations were completed this weekend.  The detour and closure has been removed and the normal CDNST/CT route through the ski area is open. There are still some timber decks located further east adjacent to Old Monarch Pass that we will be hauling away over the next week or two.  These are not directly adjacent to the trail…

Here is a look at our recently thinned tree stands located in the southwest portion of the ski area. These zones look much better after the removal of the beetle killed trees. The cutting crews are finishing up this weekend and we will be hauling loads out over the next week or so.

Our logging crew has started hauling away the beetle killed trees. This portion of the timber sale is being taken to a commercial firewood dealer in Poncha Springs. This is a much closer haul for the trucks than the commercial mill in Montrose that has been used in recent years. The Little Blue Project on US Highway 50 has also…