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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 ...

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 ...

Winter sports involving snow-covered hills and gravity are really only fun if you’ve got an easy way to get back up that hill. For those times or places where a ski lift isn’t available, the PL1 is a ...

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: The following is part of a series of articles compiled by the Colorado Snowsports Museum and Hall of Fame that will take a closer look at some of the artifacts and stories contained in ...

A few years ago, [Jeremy Makes Things] built a rope tow in his back yard so his son could ski after school. Since the lifts at the local hill closed shortly after schools let out, this was the only ...

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 ...