Longtime Warner Canyon skiers are pictured during the 2023 ski season at Warner Canyon Ski Area holing an old tow rope. Front row, left to right: Jim Clause, Vicki Chaloupka, Christie (Stapleton) Amirk, Candy (Osborne) Brynes, Mike Sabin, Pat Sabin, Chris Lindsey. Back row left to right: Ron Hotchkiss, Sue (Hotchkiss) McNeley, Patsy (McCarthy) Dary, Maureen “Mo” (McCurley) Plato, Evert McDonald, Warren Sheer, Mike Lindsey, Marty Chaloupka.
Longtime Warner Canyon skiers are pictured during the 2023 ski season at Warner Canyon Ski Area holing an old tow rope. Front row, left to right: Jim Clause, Vicki Chaloupka, Christie (Stapleton) Amirk, Candy (Osborne) Brynes, Mike Sabin, Pat Sabin, Chris Lindsey. Back row left to right: Ron Hotchkiss, Sue (Hotchkiss) McNeley, Patsy (McCarthy) Dary, Maureen “Mo” (McCurley) Plato, Evert McDonald, Warren Sheer, Mike Lindsey, Marty Chaloupka.
Like the hill itself, many improvements have also been made to the Warner Canyon lodge over the years.
Friends and families are pictured during the 2023 Warner Canyon SnoFest.
A testament to the safety and small-town feel of Warner Canyon Ski Area is that visitors feel free to leave their equipment unattended when they go into the lodge.
Megan Fitzgerald and Marty Chaloupka perform at Warner Canyon SnoFest 2023.
Steadfast and nostalgic skiers were recently reminiscing about riding the rope tow in the good ol’ days. In 1938, Les Passmore took the lead to create the ski hill, known to Lakeview skiers as “the best kept secret in the state.”
During the summer of 1940, ski club members constructed a rope tow driven by a Chevrolet truck motor. The ski area entered a new era in the fall of 1952 with the addition of two electric-powered rope tows set up in tandem.
With thin bare gloves and a good grip, skiers could reach the top of the mountain with ease. Most of these skiers started skiing from the age of 5 with their families.
Some of these skiers gathered earlier this season at Warner Canyon Ski Hill and recalled memories from an even simpler time on the hill.
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