Meet the Man Who Turns Ski Lift Chairs into Custom Alpine Furniture In ski culture, the chairlift has always been more than just a way to get uphill. It is where powder plans are made, friendships are built, and quiet moments in the mountains tend to stick with you long after the season ends. For those interested in owning a chairlift for either aesthetic or functional purposes, the process has traditionally depended […] Industry News Brent Glogau | April 8, 2026 0 Comments
The 9 Best Chairlift Names According to SnowBrains Readers The most important feature of a ski area will be different for everyone. Some will say it’s the terrain, others, the snow quality. Even more will say it’s about how family-friendly it is or the après ski scene. The names of the chairlifts are probably pretty low on the list, but these vital conveyances, which whisk skiers and snowboarders up […] Brent Glogau | October 12, 2025 1 Comment
3 Revolutionary Inventions in Skiing and the History Behind Them Sliding on snow with planks strapped to your feet—aka skiing—has an ancient history, debatably dating back as far as 8,000 BCE in Altay, China. Norway, however, has the most definitive record of skiing as a practical means of transportation. Early Norwegians constructed thick, flat, long wooden planks for skis and carried a long pole, carved with a scoop into […] Brains Zach Suffish | September 19, 2025 4 Comments
The 9 Ski Areas With the Most Lifts in North America When evaluating a ski area, it’s important to factor in the number of lifts that the resort has because that number influences the time that you will spend in line, the terrain that you can shred, and the number of other skiers that you will encounter on the mountain. Here is a list of the nine ski areas in North […] Brains Liam Abbott | April 3, 2025 1 Comment
Mount Baker, WA, Report: Much Needed Snow has Arrived Report from Saturday, March 2, 2024 Skiing Mount Baker, Washington, has been on my bucket list for a while. After hearing about the incoming storms this past week through today, I found time to make it. With over 60” of fresh snow in the past week alone, the area looked like a new mountain compared to the low snow winter […] Conditions Report Brett Ploss | March 4, 2024 0 Comments
[VIDEO] Why Building Ski Lifts is Incredibly Hard [arve url="https://youtu.be/ORA8uiz8Vt0"] SnowBrains | January 5, 2023 Likes Tweets 2 Comments
These Are All The New Chairlifts Being Installed Out West This Year After a slump in lift installations during the pandemic, there are a ton of new projects this year and it can be hard to keep track of them. Here are most of the significant (non-beginner) lift installations and expansions happening out west this year. Colorado Vail New lifts: Game Creek Express #7, Sun Down Express #17 After nearly 4 decades […] Industry News Spencer McLaughlin | November 4, 2022 4 Comments
[VIDEO] Why Fixed-Grip Chairs Are Better Than High-Speed Detachable Chairs in the Midwest [arve url="https://youtu.be/2loFfemSB0E"] SnowBrains | May 9, 2022 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
[VIDEO] 12 of the World’s Most Unique Ski Lifts [arve url="https://youtu.be/CwhDTyCu3Qg"] SnowBrains | April 6, 2022 Likes Tweets 0 Comments
Dissecting the $200+ Lift Ticket [arve url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpcUVOjUrKk&feature=emb_logo"] Alex Camerino | July 29, 2020 Likes Tweets 5 Comments
What Will Skiing Look Like In The 2020/21 Season? As we all know, the ski season was sadly cut short when resorts were forced to shut down as the world was overwhelmed by the COVID19 pandemic in March. Since then, society has adapted to a new way of living until a vaccine for the virus is discovered. Now that three months have passed and most people have settled into a […] Industry News Lucy Ferneyhough | June 17, 2020 5 Comments
Top 10 Ski Lifts in the Rocky Mountains, USA: The Rocky Mountains are known for having some of the best skiable terrain in the world. An expansive mountain range, the Rockies span over 3,000 miles from British Columbia to New Mexico. This list contains an (admittedly subjective) collection of the best chairlifts & trams in the Rockies. While these selections aren’t always the longest or highest, they’ve been chosen for their access to incredible terrain or their memorable histories. ameliatraynor | January 11, 2016 2 Comments
North Korea Accuses Europe of Human Rights Abuse After Being Denied Chairlifts On Thursday October 10th, North Korea is set to open its first ski resort, Masik Pass according to the Washington Post. There is one problem though, there are no chairs on the chairlifts. With the project massively behind schedule, with no lifts, runs littered with rocks and weeds, and unfinished hotels, the resort is still slated to open in less […] Industry News Jesse Cassidy | October 8, 2013 4 Comments
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