Here are a few looks at January’s waning and waxing moon over Monarch.
Just another beautiful afternoon on top of the Divide.
Here is a stunning image of the weekend storm clouds rolling in just before sunrise and lit from below by our snowcats.
Our MCS operators have been branching our snow roads out. They have built the over the snow road from the top of Mirkwood, along the Waterdog Ridge and up to the top of No Name peak. The operators have made the drop down the east side and are now working on heading down the west side of the Continental Divide.…
Classic view of Mirkwood and Orcs from the top of Elation. Troll’s Nose is the sunlit rib in the middle of the bowl and delineates Mirkwood Bowl from Orcs. This is a fun feature to ski and has a few different options depending on which route you drop. It also provides some challenging mitigation work for our patrol and cat…
Here is a look down Sleepy Hollow and out to the Sawatch Range.
While we sleep in our warm beds, dreaming of tomorrow’s turns, our Slope Maintenance team is hard at work prepping the mountain. This dedicated crew starts their shift at 11pm each night. They fire up our Prinoth snowcats, brew a fresh pot of coffee, review the grooming requests for the night and draw up their plans to deliver the goods.…
Park Crew wraps up their morning work on the Never Summer Freestyle Terrain under the glow of a full moon.
