Chairlifts and other ropeways are, on their own, unusual. The idea that much of our sport is based around riding massive, painfully expensive pieces of engineering is pretty bizarre. But some ...

Many of North America's first chairlifts have long been forgotten. Relegated to trash heaps and repurposed as benches and swings, North America's first chairlifts are relics. Their memory lives only ...

This past summer, Bob Nicolls was hiking a mountainside west of the Colorado ski area he owns and gazing at freshly cut trails dropping from the Continental Divide. He imagined the months ahead, when ...