![]() Snowriver’s new six-pack lift why Snowriver removed three chairlifts but only added one the sixer’s all-new line why Midwest Family Ski Resorts (MFSR) upgraded this lift first the rationale behind a high-speed lift on a 538-vertical-foot hill knocking 100 vertical feet off Jackson Creek Summit’s advertised vertical drop “Voyager” versus “Voyageur” swapping out the old Poma for a handletow the UP snowbelt the bad old days of get out of the trees you blasted kids! Gogebic Community College’s ski area management program Mt. Everything they touch becomes the best version of that thing that it can achieve. Did you know that one man, Shigeru Miyamoto, invented, among others, the Donkey Kong, Mario Brothers, Legend of Zelda, and Star Fox franchises, and has directed or produced every sequel of every game for four decades? Time calls him “the Spielberg of video games.” Well, the Skinners are the Spielberg – or perhaps the Miyamoto – of Midwest skiing. You know how when a certain actor or director gets involved in something, or when a certain athlete moves to a new team, you think, “Man, that’s gonna be good.” They project excellence. And it is a good ski area and a solid addition to the Indy Pass.īut, more than anything, the story of Snowriver is the story of MFSR and the Skinner family. Snowriver is both magnificently retro and badly in need of updating. The UP is that Great Otherplace, where the snow is bottomless and everything is cheap and everyone is somewhere else. Writing about the Midwest will always be personal to me. And it’s a Midwest Family Ski Resorts (MFSR) story, skiing’s version of a teardown, where nothing is sacred and everything will change and all you can do is stand back and watch the wrecking ball swing and the scaffolding go up the sides.Įach of these is tempting, and the podcast is inevitably a mash-up. ![]() It’s an Indy Pass story, a ski area with better skiing than infrastructure that will give you a where’s-everyone-else kind of ski day. Or as a story of a run-down complex tumbling into hyper-change, or one that activated the lifts in 1978 and just left them spinning. I could tell it as a weather story, of glacial bumps bullseyed in the greatest of the Great Lakes snowbelts. I could tell this story as a Michigan story, as a young skier still awed by the far-off Upper Peninsula, that remote and wild and snowy realm Up North and Over the Bridge. Jackson Creek Summit: 6 (1 six-pack, 2 doubles, 1 T-bar, 1 ropetow, 1 carpet)īlack River Basin: 5 (4 doubles, 1 ropetow) Lift count: 11 (1 six-pack, 6 doubles, 1 T-bar, 2 ropetows, 1 carpet) Jackson Creek: 43 trails, 11 glades, 2 terrain parksīlack River Basin: 28 trails, 6 glades, 1 terrain park Trail count: 71 trails, 17 glades, 3 terrain parks Skiable Acres: 400 (both ski areas combined) Zion Ski Hill (:17), Whitecap Mountains (:39) Porkies Winter Sports Complex (:48) The Indy Base Pass and Indy+ Pass also include two Snowriver days with no blackoutsĬlosest neighboring ski areas: Big Powderhorn (:14), Mt. Legendary Pass (also includes varying access to Lutsen Mountains, Minnesota and Granite Peak, Wisconsin)īronze: unlimited midweek access with holiday blackouts ![]() Year founded: 1959 (Jackson Creek, as Indianhead) and 1977 (Black River Basin, as Blackjack) Located in: Wakefield (Jackson Creek Summit) and Bessemer (Black River Basin), Michigan
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