Blue Mountain Resort Archives - Mountain Life

Waking Down Barriers: the First Women’s Wakeboard Event at the Pan Am Games

Erika Langman at the Pan Am Games, Wakeboarding, by Mountain Life Media

No women’s wakeboarding event at the Pan Am Games? Erika Langman changed that. words :: Kristin Schnelten During her more than ten years on the international wakeboard scene, Ontario athlete…

Blue Mountain Resort snowmaking, Mountain Life Media

In the Trenches: Shoulder-Season Snowmaking at Blue Mountain Resort

words & photos :: Kristin Schnelten. Snowmaking at Blue Mountain Resort is all in the numbers. Every winter, the 13-member crew works 24 hours a day, utilizing four dump-truck-sized compressors…

The Great Outdoors

The Great Slide Ride: Blue’s First Major Summer Attraction Delivered Spills and Thrills Galore

If you visited Blue Mountain Resort as a kid in the offseason, there’s a decent chance you willingly threw your body down a 3,000 foot mini-bobsled track on a plastic…

Features

Blue Mountain at 75: The Son of Founder Jozo Weider Recalls a Life Well-lived on the Slopes

The small ski operation launched by Jozo Weider in 1941 has grown into a fourseasons resort and village. Changes in management and ownership make this a fitting time to reflect…

Mountain Biking

Skye Rider: From Blue Mountain To New Zealand, Skye Follas Chases Her Mountain Bike Dreams

For the last few seasons, Skye Follas has been a familiar and fast face at the Blue Mountain Bike Park. Honing her downhill skills on the Niagara Escarpment, Follas was…

From the Vault: Celebrating 75 Years of Blue Mountain Resort – Part 7

After 14 years of publishing Mountain Life in Ontario, we finally gained access to The Vault—Blue Mountain Resort’s historical archive stretching back to 1941, the year Jozo Weider founded the…

From the Vault: Celebrating 75 Years of Blue Mountain Resort — Part 6

After 14 years of publishing Mountain Life in Ontario, we finally gained access to The Vault—Blue Mountain Resort’s historical archive stretching back to 1941, the year Jozo Weider founded the…

From the Vault: Celebrating 75 Years of Blue Mountain Resort — Part 5

After 14 years of publishing Mountain Life in Ontario, we finally gained access to The Vault—Blue Mountain Resort’s historical archive stretching back to 1941, the year Jozo Weider founded the…

From the Vault: Celebrating 75 Years of Blue Mountain Resort — Part 3

After 14 years of publishing Mountain Life in Ontario, we finally gained access to The Vault—Blue Mountain Resort’s historical archive stretching back to 1941, the year Jozo Weider founded the…

From the Vault: Celebrating 75 Years of Blue Mountain Resort — Part 2

After 14 years of publishing Mountain Life in Ontario, we finally gained access to The Vault—Blue Mountain Resort’s historical archive stretching back to 1941, the year Jozo Weider founded the…

From the Vault: Celebrating 75 Years of Blue Mountain Resort – Part 1

After 14 years of publishing Mountain Life in Ontario, we finally gained access to The Vault—Blue Mountain Resort’s historical archive stretching back to 1941, the year Jozo Weider founded the…

Mountain Biking

East Coast Open Canada Cup Downhill: A History in Pictures

For the first time since 1997, Canada’s top downhill racers will find themselves in Ontario for a national-level event. Yes, you read that correctly. It has been a long wait,…

Stay & Play

25 Opening Days at Blue

How Does This Year Stack Up? by Allison Davies It’s been a crazy early winter season across Ontario this year, and it left me wondering – has it always been…

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