For more than 60 years, Dave McCoy was Mammoth Mountain and Mammoth Mountain was Dave McCoy. You couldn’t mention one without ...

While doing so, authorities said, the jet skier struck the tow rope and sustained serious injuries. Authorities took the jet skier to the hospital.

Lookout Pass started in 1935 as just a rope tow built from an abandoned car engine ... In the 1950s, the Idaho Ski Club, which operated Lookout Pass, started selling lift tickets for 50 cents. The ski ...

Donal Junak, right, loads Henry Shephard onto the Poma platter rope tow ski lift at the Lake City Ski Hill on Feb. 24, 2025. The Poma platter lift is more challenging to use than a more modern ...

The lift, known as the Triple Chair, was stopped after the accident. More than 100 people who were on it at the time were evacuated by ski patrollers who used ropes to lower them to the ground.

which would make it the first rope tow in operation in the state and perhaps all of the Western United States. The first annual tournament of the Pikes Peak Ski Club was held in 1937, where 30 ...

Thus Badger Mountain Ski Area was born. Nearly 90 years later, the original rope tow has been retired ... A lone T-bar lift rockets 800 vertical feet to the top of a surprisingly stout hill ...

A few days later, more than 60 people were evacuated from a lift at Cannon Mountain in Franconia, when a bolt failed. Guests were lowered from their ski chairs by rope. The state Department of ...

SCOTT TUTTLE WORKED FOR YEARS AS A LIFT MAINTENANCE MANAGER AT MULTIPLE SKI AREAS, INCLUDING HERE ... for every chairlift, gondola and tow rope in the state, compared to 16 pages of incident ...