Below Big Sky Resort's Instagram posts, skiers and snowboarders clamored for a rope tow in the ski area’s terrain park. Once a running joke, those requests have now been made a reality. In an ...
ERIE COUNTY, N.Y. (WIVB)–A new tow rope on the ski hill at Chestnut Ridge Park is complete, according to the Erie County Department of Parks and Recreation. The department says it will provide ...
Turn out at Chapman Hill Ski Area has been strong this year, but staff members feel like they are “living on borrowed time” in regard to the two-decades-old rope tows used to take skiers part way up ...
Editor’s Note: Summit’s Historic Yesterdays by local author Mary Ellen Gilliland is featuring old-time ski stories this winter. Today’s excerpt comes from her historical book, “Breckenridge, 150 Years ...
Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Big Sky Resort has installed a new portable lift, providing skiers and riders an easier option ...
RICHMOND, Vt. (WCAX) - There was anticipation in the frosty air of Richmond Friday as one special skier was living out a lifelong dream. “I’m so excited to have the rope tow first run and I was going ...
The opening could make Mission Ridge the first ski resort operating in Washington this season, as the announcement comes ...
Oh, for the days when newbie skiers had to endure the cruel initiation ritual of riding the rope tow Riding a rope, or ski tow, was once one of the cardinal rites of passage when learning to ...
Children play in the snow outside the warming hut at the Dixie Rope Tow in the Blue Mountains in Grant County. DIXIE SUMMIT — A cherished Grant County winter tradition is making a comeback after a ...
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This look at early skiing is an excerpt from Mary Ellen Gilliland’s forthcoming book, BRECKENRIDGE, 150 Years of Golden History, to be published in May in celebration of the town’s 150th anniversary.