For this feature, we’re going back to January 2005 for Jamesdeluxe’s first-ever visit to Quebec’s scenic Le Massif. He’s mentioned several times offline that most photos do an inadequate job of conveying the views there. Maybe I don’t get out enough, but they work for me.
Le Massif will be getting more face time in The Magazine in the near future, when we publish a new piece on a recent ski safari that covered five different mountains along the northern Saint Lawrence River.
On Tuesday, inspectors from the New York State Department of Labor performed required load tests on Big Tupper’s Lift 3. The lift, crucial to Big Tupper’s operation this winter, passed every test performed.
To load test the uphill side, inspectors placed 20 x 20 x 20-inch cardboard boxes on each chair, and fit each box with a plastic liner. The boxes were then filled with water. The volume of water in two boxes weighs approximately 400 pounds to simulate the weight of two people. With each container filled, the lift was operated through a full circuit. Hard stops were used to test cable strength and braking distance.
Last week, we launched NY Ski Magazine with an exclusive article about Quebec’s Eastern Townships. This week, we’ve teed up a previously unpublished feature from Jamesdeluxe, about a ski area in Colorado that sounds intriguing: Monarch Mountain.
When I think of lift-served ski mountains in Colorado, the places that come to mind are big resorts with high-speed quads, real estate projects, and slopeside everything, but based on this article, Monarch would be right up our alley.
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