Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
Serving Gogebic, Iron and Ontonagon Counties
PEOPLE WAITING for the ski lift on Saturday at the Porcupine Mountains Winter Sports Complex in Ontonagon comply with this year's mandate to wear masks while in line. A sign next to the lift also asks those who traveled there together to share the same lift chair.
By P.J. GLISSON
ONTONAGON - Snow was slow this year, but it finally allowed the last ski hill in Gogebic and Ontonagon counties to open to a grateful crowd on Saturday.
Mother Nature appeared to make amends as she flooded Ontonagon's Porcupine Mountains Ski Area with kindly rays of sun and temperatures in the 30s.
"It was a busy day," said Mountain Manager Bill Perrin as the afternoon wound down. He estimated that 375 patrons visited the hill.
"It was a little more chaotic to begin with," said Perrin in relation to necessary new rules in relation to the COVID-19 pandemi...
