Saskatchewan is known as being a flat province. The jokes of seeing your dog run away for three days are well known around here. However much of the province is rolling hills, valleys, and forests. So the idea of skiing in Saskatchewan is not as crazy as some may think. Several smaller ski hills have come and gone over the years and only a few have survived. In August Arilem and I made it out to a ski hill that seems to have just dropped off the map. It clearly hadnt been used in some time. I skied here a couple times about 15 years ago and I am not sure exactly when it closed, but I havent heard much about it in several years and web searches bring up nothing.
Its location makes it a place that I am not comfortable to explore and the locals generally arent very accepting of people like us stopping by to take a look. Our exploration lasted less than half an hour. Its an interesting place but I doubt I will go back there.
The day lodge – it was never anything too fancy but it did the job.
The ski hill had some kind of partnership with Sunshine Village – which happens to be one of my favourite resorts. Judging by the poster it is from about 1995 when they opened the Goats Eye Mountain.
The lack of vandalism around here intrigues me – I believe someone is keeping a close eye on it.
Display case full of plaques and trophies
A small model of the ski hill
Upstairs in the Day Lodge
Be Aware – Ski with care (no reference to snowboarding gives you an idea to it’s age)
On the filing cabinet in the office area – lots of personal information left laying around in there.
Hospital beds for the ski patrol – it appears the lodge was in the middle of renovations when it shut down.
Exiting the lodge to the hill
The lodge as seen from close to one of the t-bar lifts.
Not to many hills in Saskatchewan had actual chairlifts let alone a quad – I have never seen such a new chairlift abandoned like this.
Day lodge in the back ground and T-bar station in the foreground
Looking up the chairlift from the loading area
Looking up the chairlift from the machinery room.
Inside the machinery room above the loading area on the chairlift.
Looking up the chairlift from the entrance of the machine room
The hill as we were leaving the area
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