Both Zwicker and Button assured me that the paracord the PL1 uses, which is stretchy, not taut like a lift cable, couldn't decapitate a skier. "We've tried it out!" said Zwicker, who had Zoa's ...

TORONTO – Skiing in the backcountry is one way to avoid lift lines. Purchasing your own Portable Ski Lift is another. The Portable Ski Lift, patented by Toronto’s Anatoly Pivarunas in the ...

For those times or places where a ski lift isn’t available, the PL1 is a portable tow rope system that can be quickly set up on-site and easily carried in a backpack.

On the surface, the lift doesn't seem much different from the $6.5 million six-seat high-speed Dopplemayr Powder Seeker lift Big Sky installed in 2017 in a bowl on the upper part of the mountain.

Backcountry ski hills may lack crowds, but they also lack lifts to take skiers back up the slope. The dolaGon Autonomous Ski Lift Vehicle was created with this problem in mind, as it follows ...