Summer fun starts at resort on Saturday

Whitefish Mountain Resort will open some of its popular summer attractions on Saturday.

Chair One and Chair Six start up at 10 a.m., providing access to the resort’s Alpine Slide, its Walk in the Treetops Tour and its Zip Line tours.

There will be early season pricing for all the attractions. This year, the resort will have a new zip line called Inspiration that is not yet ready for operation.

For the first few days of the season, there will be four-zip and six-zip tours, but eventually there will be a seven-zip tour.

A resort press release said snow is melting fast on the Big Mountain, but there is still too much to allow mountain bikes on the chairlifts.

The first two miles of Danny On Memorial Hiking Trail are clear of snow, and hikers are advised that two popular destinations, the East Rim and Flower Point, still are covered by snow.