I love larch chair. The Tower 12/lookout chutes area is so fun. Good slack country that brings you back in bounds, rock garden, bobcat trees, so much fun terrain on this chair

Skied Mnt Arrowsmith

I did ski Forbidden Plattoe

The story about Marshall as a ski area is certainly correct, but it seems like you should have continued with the present: Marshall is now a fantastic mountain biking park. Lots of races, for both locals and national competitions. Classes on mountain biking. Really good set of trails from friendly green trails to tough black diamonds. Of course, the mountain is also open to hikers in any weather and skiers/snowboarders can run some laps if we get a decent winter.

I'm amazed how you uncover these treasures and are able to dig up the lost information. As a native Calgarian and avid skier I truly appreciate all your videos! Keep up the fantastic work!

Thank you! I was sure I recalled skiing at place called Swiss Valley as a kid, but could not find any info on it nor anyone else who remembered it. Now I know I’m not crazy!

Awesome doc. I learned to ski there in ‘76-77. We’d take the bus from Northgate mall. If I recall the chairlift didn’t have a safety bar and was pretty high up so it took me awhile to get the courage to take it.

I lived here late 90s early 2000s, it was in ok shape while living there was getting pretty trashed right till it was brought down tho. We lived in the apartments on the bottom level of chalet over looking lake . I'm sure the building should have been condemned but we survived . Lol The Camp ground was still operational. Summers were fun and busy, winters was good fishing and hauling our tube's and snowboard up the hill to go down. The chalet was creepy and haunted as F . as young teen girls we would meet camper boys and take them to chalet and scare them !! Lolll Good memories and bad at that place.

Nice job compiling the information on this video. We skied there in the 90's. I remember the runs being quite flat, except for the very top of them. Most of the vertical was probably the first 25% or so of the runs. There are a few 90's resorts from my youth that have since closed sadly. Loretto & Cedar Highlands to name two others.

This lift has been removed as of May 2024 and a new Leitner-Poma LPA high speed six with heated seats, bubbles, and a direct drive is under construction.

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2024,WOULD of been nice if Mt.Pilchuck would still be open, with newer lodging, maybe more chairlifts.Looks like a really good mountain to ski and ride on.

I still have a Ski Mount Pilchuck button from a long-ago ski fair in Seattle. My dad's truck, if it still exists, may still have a Ski Mount Pilchuck sticker in the back window.

I thought he said blow hole ! He meant Bloedel

Damn look at that bowl above it… if they built a chairlift right to the top of that, they could keep it open for summer skiing / snowboarding and made money from that. What a shame.

thank you, i have found memories going here the years open, always wanted to buy it and live there

Seems like poor management killed Forbidden Plateau.

I worked at Dease Lake on the Stewart Cassiare railroad running buggies. One weekend a buddy and myself drove up to Cassiare grabbed a coffee and snacks. At the time most of the working people were from other countries. On our way back to Dease Lake there was a big jade nugget removed out of the mountain nearby-at that time this was the largest jade nugget ever found in the world. Really enjoyed Dease Lake residents very nice and friendly, we had employed a few to assist on equipment. Unfortunately the railroad was discontinued.

I grew up on Nanaimo’s river rd & back before liberals ruined all access to so much amazing country through out that area we use to go 4x4 ing there regularly & one time in a pretty much scary wind storm I was on the top somewhere & I Vancouver island marmot popped out of a hole & some rocks I was about 10 feet from it staring so I called my ex girl friend who was a little distance away facing the rong way but of course that startled it back into the hole & she just missed it but I feel very lucky to of seen it I was surprised with its size & the wind felt like it was going to blow me of the mountain that day PS they should open up the logging road access to nitnat main & lake cow & right by where the connector meets nitnat main there is a logging road that connects to museum main line & knocks off 2 hours of travel to port alburni & THERE IS YOUR NEW ROAD TO TOFINO THE BACK UP ROAD THEY USED LAST YEAR IS 1 HOUR AT LEAST LONGER THEN TAKING THE MUSEM MAIN TO NITNAT MAIN THERE IS NO REASON THEY CANT MAKE A HIWAY FROM DUNCAN TO PORT & tofino PEOPLE

The federal Liberal gvt has always been opposed to development in Alberta.

Can you please do one on NightHawk in Grande Prairie.

what ski lodge does not catch on fire?! geeeeesss

It feels like in everyone of these videos there is a case of a base lodge burning down

I worked on the snowmaking system design and op's manual for Birch Hill. Sorta bums me out that our tax dollars improved BH only to be opened to the public, pulling customers from the McCann's....

That T-bar looks to be homemade to some extent, very similar to the maverick at Kimberley that was ripped out ~20 years ago.

So I actually skied here in my early teens during the final 1980 season. The runs were nothing special and there was limited snow coverage. The lodge was actually quite nice with that cozy timber frame feeling. You had to hike up 100m to the main lift from the parking lot, so that's clearly why they installed that small Pomalift. As I grew older I spent extensive time hiking, camping and hunting in K-Country and the Bow valley corridor. In the late 80's I ran into some folks at the gas station at Deadmans Flats, which is right on the Trans Canada Highway below Pigeon Mountain. After chating for a bit, the couple mentioned they had bought Pigeon Mt Resort. I became friends with the new owners and there plans were to offer camping, equestrian trail riding and hunting/guide services. They lived in the main lodge as it was still in great shape. The main ski lift was still intact and the elk herds would come out every night to graze on the overgrown ski slopes, right in front of the lodge. Two years later the new owners were bankrupt and sold off the property, never to been seen or heard from again. Pigeon Mt Resort is a perfect example of the worst possible location for a ski resort. Low elevation will never keep snow. Located at the far east end of the Bow Valley corridor which is basically a wind tunnel sucking moisture away and dumping it out onto the prairies. The final nail in the coffin is the south western exposure which has sunlight burning down on the runs during the hottest part of the day. PS. That Trans Alta powerline you see by the ski area runs all the way over to Highway 40, Nakiska and the Kananaskis village. Thanks for the info Skier 72.

The red T-bar is murray-latta. pretty cool if you ask me.

My father worked there in 65, when je found out my mother was pregnant with me, he got a kob in Tungsten and moved

All the surviving Yan high speeds in Vermont have been retrofitted with Poma terminals, and I could never find any pictures of the so-called pancake terminals they would have originally had.

On the question about the number of runs, there is likely some regular aerial photography that BC Forestry would have done over the years that covers the area. I suspect if you were to look at these (especially if there are any done in the spring), you'd see what the hill had for skiable terrain.

Cassiar was my home 1959 - 1992 It's still home in my heart

Wonderful to see this. Thank you! I was in Cassiar in 78/79. As I recall, work on the towers was started during the strike and a team of employees (mgt and union) had a staggering winter project to keep busy! Names like Wayne Mayell, Brian Chandler, Joe Curry, Brian Roy etc worked very hard at getting those towers up. Pouring cement in the winter, on a mountain, in a remote area!!! Well, very impressive. I must find my photos.

I lived in Cassiar from Jan. 25th 1980 until Aug. 31st 1987. It was the greatest little community for a kid to grow up in. My heart still lives there❣️

I believe the ski lift made it way to Atlin Bc but was never put up

I work maintenence at a local resort in central alberta called canyon. Last weekend we started talks about aquiring the quad chair still on the mountain as it was "free"(towers and chair). It's estimated to cost over a million cad just to remove it, as well as 1.5 million in movement and restoration. Thought this was interesting and i am happy to give updates if anyones interested in that sort of thing.