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
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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
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