The Ski Industry’s Chairlift Guru Has Now Visited Every Lift in North America If you ever want to know details about a chairlift, unquestionably the best resource is Liftblog.com. The site contains a giant database dedicated to the latest news, reviews, and updates about every ski chairlift, tramway, and gondola in North America. It provides detailed information on new lift installations, technological advancements, industry news, and the history of ski lifts. The blog […] Industry News Brent Thomas | June 2, 2024 1 Comment
Steamboat, CO, Report: Finally Some Snow! Report from January 20, 2024 The Mountain Steamboat is located about three and a half hours from Denver. On IKON boasting 3,668 vertical feet, 2,965 acres and 18 lifts, there is a lot to explore. Skiing We started the morning leaving from Denver around 4:30am to park by 8am. Since Steamboat is a few hours farther than I-70 resorts, we […] Conditions Report Brett Ploss | January 30, 2024 0 Comments
What to Know About Sunday River’s New “Barker 6” Bubble Lift For the 2023/24 season, Sunday River Ski Resort will have a new bubble lift titled Barker 6. The Doppelmayr D-Line design will replace the outdated Barker lift installed in 1987, currently the resort’s oldest detachable lift. The installation of this lift is part of Sunday River’s “2030 Plan” which seeks to sustainably grow the ski area and make investments that […] Ian McIsaac | July 1, 2023 0 Comments
A-Basin’s Pallavicini: One of Colorado’s Most Iconic Chairlifts Frequently, skiers and snowboarders will find themselves lapping one chairlift for the entire day. One ski area that is built for this type of riding is Arapahoe Basin in Colorado. Arapahoe Basin, otherwise referred to as A-Basin or The Legend receives around 350 inches of average annual snowfall and consistently has one of the longest ski seasons in the state. […] Brains Jesse | December 9, 2022 1 Comment
VIDEO: Work Starts on Highest Lift in Europe, Running Between Zermatt, Switzerland & Cervinia, Italy [arve url="https://youtu.be/9vCPj9Bmggg"] SnowBrains | June 1, 2020 Likes Tweets 1 Comment
The Ticket Wicket – Do You Wicket Your Ticket? Early on in the start of resort skiing, ski resorts across the country and around the world sold day passes, or lift tickets, to their customers in the same way that they still do today. The way they affixed them to skiers’ clothing in a visible manner has changed. In order for lift attendants, or “lifties,” to efficiently check them […] Industry News Chad Walker | November 15, 2019 1 Comment
Breckenridge, CO is Planning to Install a New Lift on Peak 7 Breckenridge Ski Resort has submitted a proposal to the U.S. Forest Service to add a chairlift in order to increase accessibility to their intermediate terrain on Peak 7. If approved, the lift would take passengers from the middle of the intermediate Monte Cristo trail back up to. The top of Peak 7. This would cut down on lift lines and […] Industry News Jack Conroy | August 9, 2019 0 Comments
Do Lifties Have the Best Job Ever? Brought to you by Monarch Mountain Skiing makes the world go-’round … and lifties make the chairlifts go ’round. Lift operators, or lifties, are some of the coolest people on the mountain and work in one of the most awesome positions in the job market. Whether the liftie works at a smaller, local mountain, or a massively commercialized mountain, they […] Jesse | December 4, 2018 0 Comments
Industry News
Conditions Report
Brains
