The Resort has invested $3 million into redeveloping its entire learning area, now renamed Easy Acres.

After months of construction under some of the most challenging conditions a record snowfall can deliver, the Vancouver Island Mountain Centre is open.

Magic Carpets originated in Denver, Colo., more than 20 years ago, when Rocky Mountain Conveyor & Equipment (now Magic Carpets Lifts Inc.) saw the shortcomings of rope and handle tow lifts, and decided to do something about it.

The mountain life suits Lana and Mark Blair, fulltime residents at Mount Washington Alpine Resort. The couple owns Grizzly Alpine Services, which has the transportation contract in the Alpine Village, and Lana is also the representative for Strata 799.

Summer was all about the snow at Mount Washington Alpine Resort this year. No, that’s not a typo: there was enough snow left over from a record-setting year that for the first time ever, the Resort was open for summer skiing in July.

In a time when many tourism-based entities are stagnating in a soft economy Mount Washington Alpine Resort is bucking the trend, says Sarah Nicholson, Manager of Tourism Mount Washington.

While Easy Acres and the Magic Carpets are undoubtedly the biggest news for winter at Mount Washington Alpine Resort, some other changes are afoot this season.

Could this be the year of sequels at Mount Washington Alpine Resort?

Encompassing people, places and happenings at Mount Washington.

These bad boys aren’t camera shy! Three European tourists got the shock of their lives when they downloaded their digital cameras last summer following a visit to Mount Washington Alpine Resort.

How many skiers have said they would have loved to spend their school days skiing on the slopes instead of being stuck in the classroom in town all winter?

Jesse Percival looks at ease in his small office in the First Aid Building, tucked into a corner of the parking lot below the Hawk Chairlift. The dispatch radio crackles sporadically, and today is a quiet pre-season day for Percival, Patrol Director of the Mount Washington Ski Patrol.

A company at Mount Washington has been teaching ski and snowboard instructors how to teach for the past four years. This past summer, they took their show on the road to Austria for a week, and their program keeps growing.

Extreme cold, and snow lingering well into the summer months, had the Vancouver Island Marmot Recovery Team worried about pups. “We were concerned the results would be similar to last year when no pups were born at the Mount Washington colony,” said Recovery Team Chair, Don Doyle.