I started skiing at age four at Crystal Mountain near Seattle. From the very beginning I was as interested in the ride up as the sliding down. When I first heard about the internet around 1997, the website I tried before any other was doppelmayr.com. After high school, I attended Colby College in Waterville, Maine, earning a B.A. in Government in 2012. While there, I made sure to ski every operating area in Maine and New Hampshire. After graduation, I headed west to Wyoming to work in the lift operations department at the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. I ski 130+ days a year and you can find me this winter supervising the Sweetwater Gondola team. You can reach me at Peter@liftblog.com.
-Peter Landsman
Disclosure: while I am an employee of the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, this blog is a hobby and all opinions expressed are my own.
Nice website Peter. Congrats on the job at Jackson Hole.
– Bill Wolfe (back from the dead)
LikeLike
Thanks Bill! Great to hear from you.
LikeLike
You should link up with @funimag.Lots of interesting railways,many funicular,lots of Cableways.Spread the info.
LikeLike
Peter- Great website. Really enjoy it. Just a quick correction, Snowbain Utah, you got the info for Middle Bowl & Wildcat switched around. Wildcat was put in back in 73/74 as a Thiokol Triple and Middle Bowl is a CTEC Triple was put in back in in 79. Pretty much the same lift as the 73/74 Thiokol, with a CTEC Badge :)
LikeLike
Should be fixed now, thanks Ryan.
LikeLike
There is a difference between the chairs from a early model triple CTEC and Thiokol. its the side poles on the sides of each chair. Wildcat (Old triple) have cylinder poles and Middle bowl’s are square. There is also a Garventa CTEC badge in the bottom lift shack of middle bowl.
LikeLike
Hey, I love the blog a ton! I’m currently a lift operator on Okemo Mountain in Vermont working my way into a lift mechanic position. I want to get you some pictures to fill out all the lifts on Okemo if you’d like.
LikeLike
Thanks Jared. I stopped by Okemo in the Fall last year but barely got to see the mountain. Feel free to send pictures to Peter@liftblog.com.
LikeLike
Peter, It’s a small world – I use to live in Teton Village and my husband worked on the montain. Any chance you can add ski areas for sale on your blog? I just listed Blacktail Mountain in Lakeside MT….awesome 3 lift & 1 handle tow, fun area people love to come back too. Am trying to get the work out! My email is karen@landstar-mt.com. Thank you!
LikeLike
Hi Peter,
Great website and find myself coming here often. Do you have a spreadsheet file of all lifts in NA that you would be willing to share? I am contemplating building one with the data on your site but am wondering if that work has already been done. It something I would often find useful.
LikeLike
Hey Ethan, thanks for the compliments. I do have a centralized spreadsheet of every lift in North America – around 5,000. I have contemplated putting it online but Google Sheets doesn’t do the sorting, filtering and searching as well as Excel. I’m open to ideas though.
LikeLike
Hi Peter, Just wanted to say that I am loving your website. Thanks for keeping us in the loop with regards to all things lift-related.
LikeLiked by 2 people
Thanks for reading Adam!
LikeLike
How about European lifts.
LikeLike
Peter, Great post on Blizzard Mountain. Skied there 1st day of operation in 2016. keep up the good work.
LikeLike
I’ll send you an email with some pics of new Montezuma lift in Keystone.
LikeLike
Thanks! I will get down to Colorado sometime this winter to get pictures of all the new additions. Six detachables this year!
LikeLike
Peter – thanks what seems like a great site but none of the data is populating…google database says come back later…any ideas what is happening?
LikeLike
A problem between Google and your browser. Not sure why it happens but you aren’t the first one. Try clearing your browser’s cache.
LikeLike
Do you have an info on the new Zephyr Lift in Winter Park?
LikeLike
No but I would expect news from Alterra any day now.
LikeLike
Look for major Beaver Creek investments in 2019-2021. Strawberry lift will become a gondola. The Nordic area above Bachelor Gulch will be converted to a beginner/intermediate area served by 2 or 3 high speed lifts. Those permits were approved late 2017. Lodging and food services will be added at the top of Strawberry.
LikeLike
Enjoying the site! Currently on the Ski Patrol at Lost Trail, my real job is an electrical contractor. Wired some lifts (Yan conversions) when we lived in S. Lake Tahoe and recently rewired a lift at Lost Trail.
LikeLike
Peter, you should really have a page where you post all of the updates you have made within the database. Great site!
LikeLike
Hi Peter,
I recently moved to VA from CO and wanted to explore your entries on the VA lifts. It appears that all three links are broken. Is it possible to fix them? Thanks!
LikeLike
Hi Nikolay, All the links are working fine for me. Try clearing your browser’s cache if you are getting a Google Docs error.
LikeLike
Yup, that worked. Thanks!
LikeLike
Great resource, Peter. Just read for the first time. Any plans to add the Midwest? More than 10% of annual skier visits in US take place in Midwest.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Peter, when do you think you’ll be able to add Tennessee? I don’t live there, but I’ve heard of a few lifts there
LikeLike
I would like to get to Gatlinburg sooner rather than later.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Not particularly interesting, but do you plan to stop by NC as well? Not too many interesting lifts, but if memory serves, there’s a chondola, and the mountains have quite a few chairlifts at fair-style things. (Tweetsie comes to mind)
LikeLike
All lifts are interesting and they are all on my list.
LikeLike
Hey Peter, I love your blog. I’m still in high school and am very interested in lifts, especially surface ones. Any chance of stopping by mt Washington soon?
LikeLike
Peter,
I think a Lift blog Discord server would be a great addition to the blog community.
LikeLiked by 1 person
I agree. Discord servers are a little hard to set up. I do own one. The thing is discord is primary used for gaming. But nobody said you couldn’t.
LikeLike
Completely agree now that skilifts.org is dead.
LikeLiked by 1 person
That’s what happens when you get locked out. RIP Skilifts.org.
LikeLike
Nice site. Ever think of adding terminal elevations to your data?
LikeLiked by 1 person
Very Nice but can you add West Virginia Snowshoe is the best but Canaan, Timberline and Winterplace are fine offerings.
LikeLike
Great Blog Peter!
I work at Doppelmayr Wolfurt (in Austria) and just wanted to tell you, how awesome ur blog is. Sometimes it surprises me, how early you know/post About certain projects! :) We once met irl, at the Jackson Hole Mt Resort. Back then you told me about your blog online and how youre fascinated by lifts. At that time i would’ve never expected to see this! A well informed, passionate and entertaining platform to enjoy lifts. Keep up the great stuff, Peter!
Leo
LikeLike
Is there a way to delete your own comments if you have your own wordpress account?
LikeLike
Send me an email with what you would like changed/deleted and I can do it. Peter@liftblog.com
LikeLike
I thoroughly enjoy this website. It is very informative. Thanks for all the hard work! Keep it up!
LikeLike
Hey Peter do you think you can make a wall were we can just chat?
LikeLiked by 1 person
How’s that iPhone 11 Pro?
LikeLike
You should consider adding a page with updates/additions you make to any pages on the website with links. Just a suggestion.
LikeLike
if you go into search and dont type anything in and search it shows latest additions
LikeLiked by 2 people
Hi Peter, do you have a list of the tallest towers for open-air lifts as well as the highest they get above the ground?
LikeLike
For some reason you cannot comment on Ontario and Sun Mountain
Express at Bromley.
Just another note at Snow Valley-Barrie in Ontario there is a Leitner 6 person fixed grip lift.
LikeLike
Hey peter,
Would it be possible to make a page with links to lift pictures you recently took?
LikeLike
if you go into search and dont type anything in and search it shows latest additions
LikeLike