The name “Explorer” more accurately represents our resort, our brand, our team, and our guests. Winter Park is an inclusive place and that’s why we moved to change the name of the Eskimo Express Lift to the Explorer Express Lift. Winter Park is a place for all people to Venture Out, to escape and retreat, to transform and trailblaze. The iconic Eskimo Pie dropped the name in 2020, and the Edmonton Canadian football team announced it would no longer use the name as well. Brands with longer histories than Winter Park’s have also decided to abandon the term. Many people also thought it meant eater of raw meat, which connoted barbarism and violence. Through research we learned people in many parts of the Arctic consider Eskimo a derogatory term because it was widely used by racist, non-native colonizers. Last summer, we examined the names of our trails and lifts, and recognized that the name “Eskimo” is considered derogatory and offensive by many.
Winter Park renames Eskimo Express Explorer Express with the following reason behind it:.Four mountains get new trail maps from VistaMap: Granite Peak, Loon Mountain, Sunrise Park and West Mountain.Pine Knob removes Chair 4 and puts a rope tow in its place.Disney blogs report some recent downtime on the Skyliner.Sugarloaf’s forthcoming West Mountain expansion makes the trail map.News Aspen Snowmass, Blackjack, Blizzard Beach, Bousquet, Frost Fire, Great Bear, Indianhead, Lake Louise, Mission Ridge, MND Group, Mont-Sainte-Anne, Snow King Mountain, Steamboat, Sundance, Sunrise Park News Roundup: On the Map The New York Times checks in with ski resorts across the country about business during the pandemic.Lake Louise updates its trail map to show the West Bowl expansion, Summit lift and two future lift alignments.Mission Ridge’s new summit lift opening later this winter will be called the Wenatchee Express.The reimagined Bousquet Mountain opens with a new triple chair January 1st.With Europe’s ski industry struggling particularly hard, MND Group focuses on international markets including North America.Steamboat creates a virtual gondola line powered by text message.A group proposes connecting West Seattle to the regional transit network with a four station gondola.Blizzard Beach, chairlift and all, will reopen March 7th after a year-long closure.Michigan’s Blackjack and Indianhead are both for sale with a listing price of $3.49 million.Snow King Mountain previews its gondola cabins which are being fabricated in France.An 8 year old raises $10,000 to support a struggling nonprofit ski area in North Dakota.Another fall at Sundance gets featured on Reddit.Fashion designer Rachel Zoe shares the story of her son falling from a Buttermilk quad chair on social media.The City of Sioux Falls orders a Skytrac quad for Great Bear Ski Valley.Ontario’s more than 40 ski areas are ordered to close as part of a multi-week lockdown beginning tomorrow.
A Vancouver developer scraps a gondola from its plans.Mont-Sainte-Anne works diligently toward reopening its gondola with a reduced capacity of 30 cabins at first.Sunrise Park Resort considers building a combination lift.
Sunrise Park will reopen its summit lodge this season and plans to reactivate the Cyclone triple next winter.Utah’s Eagle Point eyes building a 5,500 foot connector lift.Crotched Mountain renames Park lift to Rover.Catamount also cites supply chain delays and expects to open its two used chairlifts around Christmas and Martin Luther King weekends, respectively.Doppelmayr faces supply chain delays at Sundance another resort will loan used chairs for the Outlaw Express until new ones arrive in January.Walt Disney World reveals it studied nine different layouts with up to four different lines before it built the Disney Skyliner.Mount Snow’s 2022 detachables will cost a combined $11.8 million and be constructed by Doppelmayr.A chondola is proposed to replace Dreamcatcher at Grand Targhee Resort.It’s official: Sun Peaks retires the West Bowl T-Bar with planning underway for future lift access.
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