Snow Report

Well folks, winter ain’t over until it’s over! After a beautiful and sunny week, we are forecasted to move into a good winter weather system which will start moving in this evening and is expected to ramp up tomorrow, potentially bringing 12”-24” of fresh snow through Sunday evening! It is probably time for you to get a fresh hot wax in the ski shop to go along with the fresh snow in sight. Get in there and ask your repair tech to get you dialed in for the current conditions. While you get your equipment waxed check out the retail shop or grab some fries for the quick wait.  The Sticks Feature Zone will be closed tomorrow to pull the features for a rebuild. Stay tuned for the reopen date and the additional new feature.

Have you ever wondered what the origins of the names of our ski runs are? Keep it tuned here on our new series as we continue to tell you the story behind the trail map.  We're still on the Pan side and the runs near Chair 1, whose original name was Panorama Chair.  In fact, all of the early chairlifts were named by their geographical features, before they were switched to numbers for simpler identification, especially as more lifts were added. More on that to come.

Today's installment includes 2 trails that run off the "backside" of Chair 1.  The Canyon is an obvious one; it's a Canyon, with near vertical walls of 400-500 feet in places.  Gunner's Ridge gets its name from several decades prior, when there was a permanent recoilless gun, as well as a forest service powder storage facility, located on the ridge for shooting explosives on to Hemispheres for avalanche mitigation.  Though both of those are now long gone, the name remains!