Landslide Closes Mission Ridge to Recreational Activity

Mission Ridge Ski Area is closed to recreational activity because of a landslide.

Although the resort ended ski and snowboard operations last weekend, it’s now off limits for activities such as hiking, biking and bird watching.

Robin DeMario with the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest says agency personnel are looking into the slide.

“They’re going to get a hydrologist up there to look at the mudslide to see what is going on there, what the potential is.”

The landslide, which is still active, happened Wednesday afternoon.  It’s covers approximately three acres adjacent to the Mimi ski run.

Mission Ridge is part of the national forest lands system, which means forest personnel handle all issues having to do with natural occurrences, such as Wednesday’s slide.