Talk:Mission Ridge Ski Area

removed parking material

This material I'm not interested enough in to rewrite; it has some useful information but like the rest of teh article needs citation anymore:

The parking rail is the half circle track on the downhill end of the bottom terminal of the quad which was used last season every night to park nine chairs on. With nine chairs off of the cable or haul rope, we would run the small gap up to the top of the mountain to keep a few chairs out of the bad weather. A few less chairs covered in rime ice would save us little yet valuable time in the mornings during start-up. This is a common procedure for ski areas with heavy ice and wind or bad weather-related issues. Some storms would prevent the quad from running up to three days due to iced up chairs.)

Data section needs de-bolding also. Mission Ridge (Washington) will be separate landform article soon; making Mission Ridge disambig page....Skookum1 (talk) 14:31, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

History Section

This history section that was deleted has some good information about the ski resort in it. I'll leave it here. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mission_Ridge_Ski_Area&oldid=361125941

History

• 1944 - A U.S. military B-24 Liberator heavy bomber crashes in the Squilchuck Basin.
• 1966 | December 11, Mission Ridge Ski Area opens with Chairs #1, #2, and two tows.
• 1967 | Chair Lift #3 is added.
• 1971 | Chair Lift #4 is added.
• 1978 | Snowmaking is installed on the lower slopes.
• 1985 | The Bomber Wing is moved off the mountain and mounted in the Lodge.
• 1992-93 | Facilities are remodeled to include Child Care, Kid's Club, and admin. offices in base area; indoor seating and heated restrooms at Midway. The B-24 Bomber Wing is moved to the entrance of Bomber Bowl...within one hour, it started snowing and a legend began.
• 1994 | Midway Café is constructed to seat 68 indoors and 60 on the deck.
• 1997 | Mission Ridge and Stevens Pass join together as Harbor Mountain LLC Co, the company then made an offer to purchase Schweitzer Mountain in Idaho.
• 1999 | Silver Creek Restaurant Company takes over the Food & Beverage Centers. Midway Café becomes the Mountain Roost. Chair 5 transformed into The Lost Prop; with a warmer environment. Ridge Sports rental/retail is consolidated into Ridge Mountain Works.
• 2000 | Harbor Resorts announced plan to market and sell Mission Ridge Ski Area. The Border Café is transformed into The Outpost, a quick-stop food stop.
• 2002 | Record breaking year for skier visits. New marketing initiatives.
• 2002 | Remodeled Food Service Area in Hampton Lodge. McGlinn's On The Mountain operating Food Service. Mission Impressions assumes the "The Outpost" area to showcase local artists and specialty retail.
• 2003 | Mission Ridge Environmental Assessment/Master Development Plan is approved.
• 2003 | November of 2003, Mission Ridge Resort Inc. purchased Mission Ridge, from Harbor Mountain LLC. owner Larry Scrivanich
• 2004 | Ski School receives an addition, growing the building by an additional 25%. Summer grooming opens trails and more gladed tree skiing. Mission Ridge operates food service.
• 2005 | A Poma High Speed Detachable Quad is purchased from Winter Park CO. and is installed at Mission Ridge as the Liberator Express to replace Chair #2. Phase I of the snowmaking expansion is installed along with the construction of an 18 mm gallon reservoir. The area now has 66 acres (270,000 m2) of snowmaking coverage, the most in the Northwest.
• 2006 | Skookum run on Chair 3 was widened to a minimum width of 132 feet (40 m), adding approximately 5 acres (20,000 m2) to the run. The run was recently homologated allowing the ski team to once again host ski races on Skookum.
• 2007 | The lower parking lot is expanded to accommodate 70 additional cars and Mission Ridge Road is reconstructed, with new pull-outs and guard rails installed. A new parking rail for the Liberator Express was built with the capacity to park 29 chairs on the parking rail which means that most of the upper basin (tower 19 on up) is bare cable only allowing for an easier and more reliable start up even during storm weather periods.
• 2008 | Completed summer projects included rewiring, upgrading and diagramming the electrical system of The Liberator Express. This major investment was made in an effort to ensure more reliable and safe operation of the lift as well as a more systematic approach to diagnosing problems should they occur. The second phase of the Mission Ridge Road Project was also completed.
• 2009 | Announcement is made that Mission Ridge is selected to be the training venue for the 2010 *Men’s Olympic Slalom Team. The unloading zone at the top of Chair 1 is re-graded in hopes of improving experiences for beginners. The Easiest Way Down bypass on the Chair 1 beginner slope is widened and re-graded. The upper portion of the Skookum and SG Race Hill are also widened and re-graded. Lower Chak Chak is Homologated for FIS Slalom events for scheduled events in the Spring of 2010. Some additional parking is established.

Now it's outdated and some information needs more context, but it's useful.

Pickn528 (talk) 08:36, 25 February 2019 (UTC)

A question arises: Is the geological grown "Squilchuck Basin" vulgo named "Bomber Bowl" or a small crater left by the into-terraine-crash of the B-24 bomber airplane or possibly explosion(s) of carried bombs. If the first is true, then my edits in Walla Walla Regional Airport went partially wrong. Helium4 (talk) 11:50, 19 December 2021 (UTC)