T-bars can make even experienced shredders nervous: Skiers (especially those in line at Breckenridge’s Horseshoe Bowl) often heckle riders who fail to mount the lift and jeer them to the back of the ...

An ode to T-Bar and platter surface lifts, fast disappearing, signaling the rift between destination resort glitz and community ski-hill grit. Some of my strongest memories from nearly 40 years of ...