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While doing so, authorities said, the jet skier struck the tow rope and sustained serious injuries. Authorities took the jet skier to the hospital.

Thus Badger Mountain Ski Area was born. Nearly 90 years later, the original rope tow has been retired — it surely wouldn’t pass state inspection today — but the no-frills spirit lives on.

So they installed floodlights on the mountain and it is known as the invention of night skiing. Fast forward to 1939-ish, Clarence Bousquet actually patented a rope tow gripper. So in the 1930s ...

The new rope tow, a hang-on and get-pulled mechanism announced last week, spans 1,000 feet along “Swifty Park”, and is expected to provide welcome relief from boot packing or a trip to the base.

Below Big Sky Resort's Instagram posts, skiers and snowboarders clamored for a rope tow in the ski area’s terrain park. Once a running joke, those requests have now been made a reality.

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The Dixie Rope Tow, which brought local families together to play in the snow for generations, had been out of action for the last seven years and was only open sporadically for several years ...

The Frisco Adventure Park has announced the grand opening of a new mobile rope tow that will service the Frisco Railyard terrain park. On Thursday, Dec. 19, at 10 a.m., the Frisco Adventure Park ...

Just outside Denver’s outskirts stands Echo Mountain, which first opened in 1960. This ski area bills itself as Denver’s closest and cheapest. It offers night skiing, 226-plus acres of skiable terrain ...