Last week in preparation for the opening of the Crest, our Tram crew conducted its annual training on our manual evacuation procedure.  This evacuation method would only be used if the primary (electric) and evacuation (gas or diesel) drives both went out.  You can rest assured that every time you load one of our lifts, our well trained crew has…

To all of you who have been avid readers of Scott’s Blog throughout the years I wanted to take a second to introduce your new blogger(s).  My name is BL Holdinghaus and I grew up on a farm in Missouri before moving to Canon City in 2004 to become a raft guide.  My first introduction to Monarch was in 2005…

After 27 years, today is Scott Pressly’s last day at Monarch.  This week Scott gave a great farewell and rundown of some of his accomplishments on his final blog post and unsurprisingly, he spent the post describing what “we” accomplished.  He is correct (as always) that it takes a village to run a ski area and complete these projects, however,…