Lift Blog founder visits every ski lift in North America, capping goal [Video]

By pretty much any definition, the Moose Mountain ski hill in the Yukon territory of Canada would not be considered a destination resort.

It only opens for a few months in the winter when there’s enough daylight to see the slope, and then only on weekends and only when one of a handful of volunteers can show up. Skiers and snowboarders have their choice of three runs: one green, one blue and one black. A T-bar run with a diesel engine is the only lift — a generous term, considering users never leave the ground.

Yet last week, Peter Landsman, who spends most of every winter at Wyoming’s Jackson Hole Mountain Resort— with its 133 trails, 13 lifts and affluent international clientele — boarded the first of three flights bound for the far northwest corner of Canada. He then drove another 330 miles through remote wilderness, sometimes on gravel highways and often without …