Peter Landsman started Lift Blog in 2015 after years of documenting ski lifts around the United States. He learned to ski at age four at Snoqualmie Pass and Crystal Mountain near Seattle. Even at that age, he was as interested in the ride up as much as skiing down. After high school, he attended Colby College in Waterville, Maine, earning a B.A. in Government in 2012. While there, he made sure to ski as many areas as possible in Maine and New Hampshire. After graduation, he headed back west to Wyoming to work in the lift operations department at the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. He supervises lift crews and skis 130+ days a year, travelling as much as possible to other resorts with interesting lifts. Feel free to get in touch at Peter@liftblog.com. You can also follow the blog on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Disclosure: While I am an employee of the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, this blog is an independent project. The postings on this site are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of JHMR.
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Nice website Peter. Congrats on the job at Jackson Hole.
– Bill Wolfe (back from the dead)
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Thanks Bill! Great to hear from you.
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You should link up with @funimag.Lots of interesting railways,many funicular,lots of Cableways.Spread the info.
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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 :)
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Should be fixed now, thanks Ryan.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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My first ski lift ever built is going to be at the North Star Elementary as a platter (my lift company is going to be named Concord) then two of them at ABQBioPark zoo, then a few at future ski area Edgewood then one at Sandia Peak then five at another future ski area called Rocky Mountain then in other years at different states. I will start the company in 2023.
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And two at Ski Santa Fe.
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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.
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Thanks for reading Adam!
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How about European lifts.
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I’m pretty sure Peter takes all of the pictures here and it would be a lot harder to travel to Europe for the price you can get around America. Plus you would have to fill out all the spreadsheets too for lifts and Europe. Plus he has work to do other than lift blog. Also the news roundups and articles he types out would have to be bigger and include european ski resorts. An idea I have is that you can submit pictures and spreadsheets for ski areas and other lifts not in ski areas for outside of north america and he can add them. Also I think you should be able to post your own forums about things but it would not be in the same page as where the news roundups and articles are. Also forum posts would not be added to the monthly links at the bottom of the site. Also if there is some way to add a way to edit your own comments on your own and not have to have peter edit them would be great.
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Take a look at the lift database on https://www.seilbahntechnik.net/ It is more technical rather than the “personal” style of Peters pages. While it tries to cover the whole world it is most useful for Europe, and many lifts also have pictures. I find the interface rather clumsy, though.
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You can also check out http://www.skiresort.info. It is published in Germany and has comprehensive info about European lift infrastructure
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I’ll drop https://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/ as another great one for Europe. Just throw the link into google translate and click on it (it’ll let you view the entire website translated into English).
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And the rest of the world.
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Yes, remontees-mecaniques is awesome, but my french sucks :)
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Peter, Great post on Blizzard Mountain. Skied there 1st day of operation in 2016. keep up the good work.
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I’ll send you an email with some pics of new Montezuma lift in Keystone.
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Thanks! I will get down to Colorado sometime this winter to get pictures of all the new additions. Six detachables this year!
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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?
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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.
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Do you have an info on the new Zephyr Lift in Winter Park?
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No but I would expect news from Alterra any day now.
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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.
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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.
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Peter, you should really have a page where you post all of the updates you have made within the database. Great site!
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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!
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Hi Nikolay, All the links are working fine for me. Try clearing your browser’s cache if you are getting a Google Docs error.
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Yup, that worked. Thanks!
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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.
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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
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I would like to get to Gatlinburg sooner rather than later.
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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)
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All lifts are interesting and they are all on my list.
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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?
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Peter,
I think a Lift blog Discord server would be a great addition to the blog community.
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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.
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Completely agree now that skilifts.org is dead.
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That’s what happens when you get locked out. RIP Skilifts.org.
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Nice site. Ever think of adding terminal elevations to your data?
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Very Nice but can you add West Virginia Snowshoe is the best but Canaan, Timberline and Winterplace are fine offerings.
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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
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Is there a way to delete your own comments if you have your own wordpress account?
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Send me an email with what you would like changed/deleted and I can do it. Peter@liftblog.com
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I thoroughly enjoy this website. It is very informative. Thanks for all the hard work! Keep it up!
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Hey Peter do you think you can make a wall were we can just chat?
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How’s that iPhone 11 Pro?
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You should consider adding a page with updates/additions you make to any pages on the website with links. Just a suggestion.
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if you go into search and dont type anything in and search it shows latest additions
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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?
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Hey peter,
Would it be possible to make a page with links to lift pictures you recently took?
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if you go into search and dont type anything in and search it shows latest additions
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Great site! any info on the lifts at Chestnut mountain in Illinois? I think they’ve got at least 3 or 4 fixed grip triples
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two quads, a summer only triple, and three triples.
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Also Ski Snowstar has 2 quad lifts and 2 double lifts.
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One lift I never see mentioned is the single chair on the island of Capri in Italy (near Naples). According to this site- http://capriseggiovia.it/en/impianto.html
“The Monte Solaro chair lift was built by the engineer Uliscia in 1952.
The equipment was completely overhauled in 1998 by Sacmif srl and reopened in 1999. In fact, the facility is managed by Sacmif Engineering who also looks after maintenance.
The lift has 156 chairs and with an ascent time of 13 minutes allows an opportunity to enjoy a 360° panorama of Capri. After the journey the tourist can relax at the “Canzone del Cielo”, an American bar and solarium open since the fifties.”
There’s also several photos attached on that site. I rode this chair about a year ago and there’s now an enclosure on the bottom terminal. This chair also had one of the longest lift lines I have ever waited in. Took me 40+ minutes, but was definitely worth it for the view.
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“This chair also had one of the longest lift lines I have ever waited in. Took me 40+ minutes, but was definitely worth it for the view.”
Grouse Mountain Skyride: 👀
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Posted this awhile back but you never seemed to notice. Some information some removed chairlifts and additions at snowbasin resort utah. .
I was told in a instagram post that the old becker and porcupine were constructed by Poma telecar
The old porcupine platter (Before the double chair) ran from 1956-1961 Constructed by Huntington (Not 100% sure https://gyazo.com/6747a96325d3b5408a20543e9ff9f33f
Porcupine double ran from 1961-1986 Constructed by Poma-Telecar
Becker double chair ran from 1959-1987 Bottom drive Constructed by Poma-Telecar
Wildcat single chair 1948-1973 Bottom drive and tensioning Constructed by Constam Also called Mount ogden chairlift
Wildcat double 1964-1985 Bottom drive Constructed by Poma-Telecar
Middle bowl’s top terminal was moved downhill to make way for needles lodge. Around 1998-1999
Where i found the information
https://www.snowbasin.com/blog/75th-anniversary-history-blog-series-the-1950s
https://www.snowbasin.com/blog/wildcat-lift
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Love the website.
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I love this blog. It’s a must-read! Keep up the outstanding work.
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Hi everyone, I love this site because it talks about my passion, that is, the ski lifts.
I am Italian and I go skiing in the largest ski area in the world, the famous Dolomiti Superski.
Do you all know him?
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I love this website. One thing: add a button that directs the user to the page of the lift shown in the header of the page in case the user is interested in the lift and wants to know more.
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I second that. I’ve often wondered where those pics were from
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I try and feature my best photos from across the site up there. Unfortunately they are randomly shown and not tied to specific pages so it would be hard to have them link properly.
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Thanks for noticing. The specific example I am thinking of is this image: https://skiliftblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/cropped-schweitzer-116.jpg
I had to reload a page a ton to get that link. I also went through a lot of ski areas and I found this https://liftblog.com/snow-ghost-schweitzer-mountain-resort-id/. I noticed that the cropped photo was not on the latter page.
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The closest I could find to the cropped one was this image, which is not the same image: https://skiliftblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/schweitzer-117.jpg
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Does anyone know if this guy landing on the lift would do damage to the shut off sensors or derail the lift. The woman on the lift is a dummy if you look closely and the scream is fake.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJWfskMP/
Posted here because I didn’t know where else to post it
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Depends on how hard he lands on the chair- e.g., whether he bounces it or not. Either way, If I caught him doing that on one of our lifts I’d ask for his pass to be pulled. That could be a dangerous stunt.
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In the video he ducked a rope (which alone is often enough to pull a pass) to ski into the closed zone in front of the lift’s base terminal and knocked the rider of the chair off it. If any resort staff saw this they should absolutely pull this idiot’s pass.
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Do just D-Lines have the screen inside the operator house or do new Uni-G’s have them too?
Here is an example. I’m pretty sure this is a Uni-G but I may be wrong.
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMJWX1nT9/
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Doppelmayr Connect comes on all new Doppelmayr detachables and maybe fixed grips now too.
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Fixed grips too. One screen at the drive terminal. Just the plain console at the return/mid station(s).
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Peter why don’t you take pictures of rope tows? Are they just too small for pictures like carpets or do you not consider them in the category you take your pics in? Some ropetows are essential parts of ski areas.
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For some reason you can’t comment on Bear Paw MT or the Double Chairlift there. Anyone know why?
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Try now. I have to open comments on new pages manually and occasionally I forget.
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It works now thank you Peter.
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Is it possible to have bike carriers on bubble lifts for summer use? If it is how does the bike carrier fit on?
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Since most of the different styles of bike carriers use a totally different carrier than the chairs, whether they’re originally bubbles or not doesn’t really make a difference.
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Peter, are you aware of a problem that occurs whenever I try to comment with certain regular characters, it won’t post the comment? I try resetting everything, but this problem still happens to me. I also cleared by browser of tabs, but that didn’t work either.
Thank you!
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First I’ve heard of it. Can you elaborate?
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It happens when a website name is referenced in a comment. When I press “post comment,” it appears to be automatically deleted. When I try to post it again, it says I have already posted that, but the comment doesn’t show up. This isn’t the first time it has happened to me. I tried posting the same thing on another device and it didn’t work either.
I hope this helps.
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I now see what you tried to post and approved it. The WordPress spam filter is quite good but sometimes it makes mistakes.
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Nvm, I got it to work on another device. I guess I don’t have enough patience…
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Thanks!
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For some reason when I post comments sometimes they say “duplicate comment detected” or it goes through and the comment dosent post. Is there anyway to fix this?
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My comments usually don’t appear after I post them if there is a link of some sorts in them.
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Peter just wanted to let you know that you forgot to turn comments on Mt La Crosse or any of its lifts.
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Titcomb, Maine has that exact same issue with the comments.
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Fixed both. Thank you.
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When I try to post a comment on Mt Rose Nevada it will not post and not appear. Does anyone know how to fix this?
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They were flagged as spam. I approved them now. If this happens in the future please email me at Peter@liftblog.com and I will make sure to approve them.
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Peter, have you considered adding defunct ski areas to the blog? There are many sources of info that have manufacturers and lift statistics to help fill the databases for these defunct ski areas.
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I’ve been thinking again and these additions would make my day/month/year:
-A “Take Me Somewhere Random” button for when you’re bored. Clicking it would transport you to a completely random lift or news post.
-Resort/lift maps included in each resort’s page, to satisfy people like me who absolutely need to see where things are related to each other to fully make sense of something. Could also be used to support discussions regarding lift alignments and future plans, a discussion that seems to happen somewhat often ’round here.
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1. The take me somewhere random is a good idea although that may be complicated to set up links for.
2. You can go to skimap.org and you can find all the maps there you are looking for. It would be nice to have them here on the blog but it would be a lot of links for Peter to put in.
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Is take me somewhere random even possible with WordPress?
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Myles is right- skimap.org is a great resource. Plus it has historical maps so you can see where removed/shortened lifts once ran. That would be a huge time suck for Peter to put all that here when it’s not completely germaine to his programme here.
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Can WordPress handle any file type other than a png and a jpg? Most of the maps on skimap.org are pdf files.
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Yes. WordPress powers 40 percent of all websites on the internet.
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Peter, you forgot to turn comments on all of the new lifts and ski areas you added.
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I’m not finished with today’s additions. Dinner break.
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Is there a way to see new additions to the site? Like a feed of some sort?
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Not officially but if you don’t type anything into the search bar at the top and hit search, it will show new pages and posts in the order they were added.
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Perfect! Thank you! Great site.
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