Today we celebrate workers all over the country and at Monarch we are fortunate to work with this incredible crew! Thanks to all who have been putting in the hard at work all summer preparing for the next great ski season. Happy Labor Day to all!
Recently Rea Orthner with Peak Ecological Services paid us a visit to both check in on the revegetation efforts in No Name Basin as well as look at some future projects. We have been working a lot with Rea recently as she has been conducting wetland and botany studies for all of our recent construction projects. These studies help us…
Last week we had our annual Tree Day at Monarch where we planted 1200 baby Engleman Spruce and Lodgepole pines. This has been a big collaborative project with the United States Forest Service, and our crew has now planted over 8000 trees since the summer of 2020. Trees grow very slowly at this high of altitude so these will be…
This week Franklin Drilling and Blasting did a round of rock blasting on Paradise Lot. We worked with this crew the last expansion on this lot in 2021 so they had a good feel for the project and what was underground. This is a big step in the parking expansion as it breaks up the bedrock so we can get…
With all the talk in the news of the Super El Niño (cue Chris Farley), it seemed like a good time to share a little bit about what this all means for Monarch. I will preface this all with the fact that seasonal forecasts talk about trends and in no way can predict amounts or timing of snowfall. Long range…
It may still be August but there has been a chill in the air the past couple of mornings and there are the first hints of change in the aspens. I’ve got my fingers crossed that it’s a sign of an early start to winter!
Thanks to all who showed up to support the first AVAD race at the Crest this morning! It was a great time and these kids (and many others) feel so appreciative of the support that everyone gave. The dyslexia community was the real winner today!
Our Ops crew has been hard at work this week getting the bottom course of our gabion wall set for Paradise Lot. Gabion baskets are wire mesh baskets that are set on top of a compacted rock layer then filled with 4-8″ rock. This creates a very stable per-engineered retaining wall that allows water to flow through which prevents the…
This is a section of reclaimed wetland from our construction of No Name Basin. During the construction of the NNB road, we had to cross an unnamed stream, which resulted in a small amount of wetland disturbance. Instead of wasting this beautiful top soil and plant life, our Patrol Manager, Keelie MacKelvey, replanted that material on a seep that had…
Today I got out with the family to to a test run (walk in my case) of the AVAD race course. It’s such an incredible view of the tram and ski area as you get to the halfway point which is the perfect reward for finishing the hard half. There is still time to register, so I hope to see…
