Tag: Wild Mountain
At-the-Ready!
Smaller, non-corporate resorts generally can’t afford the luxury of early season snowmaking, as it tends to vanish with the warm days that pop up in late November and early December. This season... Read More
Southwest Season Set to Launch
A spate of storms through the southern Rockies has a number of resorts lined up to join the fun; Wolf Creek Colorado expects to spin tomorrow for trick or treaters, running Nova chair and a carpet fro... Read More
First to Open East of Colorado!
Combine a bunch of fan guns with a cold blast of frigid air, and Wild Mountain in Taylors Falls, MN is likely to be the first area in the sort-of east to open this season. Photo above shows a view of ... Read More
Schist Happens
Photo above, schist is the silvery/grey stuff they had to dig out at Magic Mountain VT in order to pour tower footings for their new quad summit chair. Magic has a few more footings to go, as well as ... Read More
Welcome 2019-20!
We’re back on it folks — gearing up for another season and plenty of news to go around…First up, indeed Peak Resorts has ceased to exist following the buyout by Vail Resorts Inc., pr... Read More
Encore Weekend on the way
This is the time of year when the non-destination resorts have banged it up for the season, but in some cases the snow keeps lingering. In other cases, a rare April storm blankets the shrinking snowpa... Read More
Season Speeds Along
Recent FIS World Cup women’s downhill globe winner Nicole Schmidhofer recently participated in the FIS Speed Skiing World Championships in Vars (FRA) and posted a top speed of 217.590 kph, good ... Read More
Friday News & Midwest Ramble
Angela checks in from The Mountain Top at Grand Geneva Resort Wisconsin, sez they’re smashing that proverbial bottle of champagne on the season tomorrow. Well that’s not exactly how she pu... Read More