A member-owned ski co-op

A ski mountain owned by the people who ski it.

Ski-Op Mountain is a cooperative organizing to buy land or reopen a defunct ski area and run it for its members instead of for a balance sheet. We are in the search and organizing phase right now — no mountain has been acquired yet, and we would rather tell you that plainly than dress it up.

Low frills. Good vibes. Cheap food.

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How would you want to be involved?

Home mountain

Days per season

Skills you'd bring

Accredited investor?

Willing to relocate?

What would make you buy in?

No spam. Just updates from the search, whenever there is something real to say.

What we're building

The whole point is a mountain that answers to skiers, not to a spreadsheet.

01 Member-owned, one member one vote The co-op is owned by its members. Voting power does not scale with how much anyone puts in.
02 Annual dues that actually cover skiing Dues fund lift access, lessons, and a food credit — bundled, so the mountain isn't nickel-and-diming you once you're there.
03 Honest food at honest prices A real kitchen making real food. Chili, burgers, breakfast burritos, coffee that isn't an insult. Priced like a diner, not an airport.
04 Low frills by design Fixed-grip lifts, a warm lodge, good grooming, and clean bathrooms. Money goes into snow and uptime, not architecture.
05 Family friendly, with content-neutral display rules A place you can bring kids. Clear, evenly applied rules about what gets displayed on the mountain, written down in advance.
06 Built by skiers, with volunteer labor Members who can swing a wrench, run a groomer, patrol, or work a kitchen are part of how this gets built and kept running.

Where we actually are

Status board, updated as things move. No spin.

There is no mountain yet. Nothing has been acquired, optioned, or put under contract. This is the search and organizing phase, and this board is exactly how far along it is.

Done Cost modeling — what it takes to run a small mountain, built from the ground up.

Now Site screening — working through candidate land and defunct ski areas.

Now Bylaws and structure — how membership, voting, and governance actually work.

Next Entity formation — standing up the cooperative as a real legal entity.

Next Site diligence — deep review of the sites that survive screening.

What you'll get in your inbox

The actual work, shown openly — not a newsletter about a newsletter.

Lift cost teardowns — line-by-line comparisons of a used fixed-grip double against a T-bar, installed and running.
Candidate site breakdowns — terrain stats, vertical and aspect, snowfall history, and how hard the place is to actually get to.
Case studies of ski areas that closed — what killed them, and which of those failure modes we can design around.
Bylaws drafts, with the reasoning — not just the language, but why each governance choice was made.
Snowmaking, grooming, and lodge math — water, air, pumps, cat hours, and what it takes to keep a lodge warm and open.

Want in on the search?

Add your email and we'll bring you along as the co-op takes shape.

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