Posts by tahoetr

this is easy. I spent 15 years in the industry, as an operator, and one summer with a manufractor installing the Payday, Bonaza lifts at PCMR and Deer Crest fixed grip chair at Deer Valley On a high speed chair, the chair detaches...

I live 4 blocks from the Boulder Lodge on the Nevada side. No crowds, lots of parking there. Great place to ski from. Haven't skied much at Heavenly, since i drive semi, but the times i have skied there have been great. Just don't go...

Deer Valley can have untracked powder, 3-4 days after the Cottonwood Canyons have been tracked out. Get to know a patroler, or liftie, and always ask the Mt. Hosts, where the untracked snow can be found.(hint) in the trees between...

Utah49, i'am in total agrement. If the Lifties had been watching the lift, (in which they were hired to do) then they would of saw that the kid was having trouble, and thus stopped the lift and helped him. It is not the job of a lift...

Hey Utah, I haven't been bumpin chairs , now for 2 years. Miss the friends i made, miss the option of skiing every day, but had to get a real job, if there is such a thing. Now have logged over 200,000 miles acciedent free. Looking...

Hey all. It's me formerly known as TR@DV now known as Tahoetr ( wife got transferred there) Anyways reading the post about DV and PC making me chomp at the bit. Hoping to make it for a visit in Feb. Mean while, drivingmy ruck all over...

As a former Lift Forman at a famed Utah resort, I must say, what happened at PCMR was/is probly my worst nightmare. My former employer, stresses to all thier lift operators, to watch every single chair load/unload, be ready for the...

Below is a story from saminfo.com a major ski industry magazine. They are reporting the following from Ski Mag. 34881Vail Again Tops SKI Resort ListSAM Magazine--Boulder, Colo., Sept. 8, 2004--For the 13th time in 17 years, Vail tops...

Machine made bumps no good?? Well tell that to every team that was in the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. The bumps they skied were created with the use of a snow cat, as well as power with shovels. DEER Valley has done an...

traces of the white stuff spotted here at So Lake Tahoe Greetings to those who knew me as trdv. Wife got herself transfered to So Lake Tahoe a year ago. I tagged along , somewhat. I driver truck now, lucky to get home once a month. ...