The team from Skytrac has assembled the first triple carrier for the new lift.  We are using this chair as a prototype to engineer our evacuation device.  The carriers will also include restraint bars and a padded seat when fully complete.  Who is excited to ride one?!

We are spending the bulk of our days out in No Name Basin.  There is a lot of activity going on with top terminal foundation work, tower foundation excavation, timber processing/forwarding, and service road construction.  The Vehicle/Slope Maintenance teams have been installing custom made steel winch anchors.  Our Patrol trail crew has also been hard at work with erosion control…

Usually, we don’t like to see a lift line.  When tower foundations are being excavated for a new lift to open up the backside terrain, it’s a different story.  Brian from All Mountain Construction has been working his way down the lift line this week excavating for each tower foundation.  He should have this task wrapped up in a few…

The Spider Excavator is working its way down the lift line, digging the holes for the individual tower foundations.  There are fifteen towers in total with two of these being integrated with the bottom and top terminals. This machine and its operator are made for the job and handle the majority of tower foundation excavation work in the Rocky Mountains. …

The No Name Basin signage is going up.  The outstanding NNB logo was designed by our marketing team and the installation was handled by the Mtn Ops crew.  These are looking amazing and we can’t wait to see them with snow capped mountains in the background.

Several sheave trains for the new lift in No Name Basin have started to arrive.  These lift components consist of a series of individual sheave wheels that support and guide the haul rope of the chairlift.  The wheels have a groove in the sheave liner that smoothly guides the direction of the haul rope as it moves up and down…

The spider excavator is on site and ready for its work in digging the lift tower foundations.  Brian Pombo of All Mountain Construction out of Summit County Colorado is taking care of this critical work along the lift line in No Name Basin.  He is the best in the industry at operating these specialized machines and we are so excited…

Our new trail map for No Name Basin is complete!  This is a project we have been working on since the 2023-24 winter season and are so excited to share it with you.  We worked closely with Gary Milliken of VistaMap on this trail map project.  This map is designed digitally, but still requires an artist’s touch.  There is a…

Pretty excited about our shiny new lift going in!  The crew is wrapping up the foundation forms and we look to get up on the ridgeline next week with top drive terminal site prep.  Lift parts continue to show up every few days and the momentum is building.  Stay tuned for updates from the mountain as they occur.

The team from Skytrac Lifts continues to work hard in the parking lot building the tower foundations. In addition to this prep work, we are starting to see other lift parts showing up for the No Name Basin Lift. We recently received a delivery of towers for the lift. Once the foundations are in place and completed on site, the…