History
Originally conceived in the 1960s and created by Skyline Basin Associates during the 1970s, the ski area's original name (as a concept) was "Skyline Basin." After years of planning, fundraising, and approval procedures, the ski area opened as "Bluewood Ski Area" in January 1980.
The second season of 1980-81 was a very poor snow year, and the fledgling ski area filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in August 1981. Auctioned off two years later and acquired by Rainier Bank, it was purchased for $550,000 in October 1983 by Portland executive Stan Goodell, a former president of the ski patrol at Mount Hood. To distance itself from the past financial difficulties, Goodell renamed it "Ski Bluewood" and relocated to Dayton to run the area himself.
An expansion in the summer of 1986 added parking and the Triple Nickel, a triple chairlift to serve the instructional area with a vertical rise of 400 feet (120 m). It joined the existing lifts, the Skyline Express triple chair and Easy Rider platter lift, which was relocated.
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