On Thursday, October 9, 2025, the sport of skiing will surface in the broader cultural consciousness when the inventors of the PL1, a portable rope tow system, appear on CBC’s Dragons’ Den. Similar to ...

Winter sports involving snow-covered hills and gravity are really only fun if you’ve got an easy way to get back up that hill. For those times or places where a ski lift isn’t available, the PL1 is a ...

Zoa Engineering’s PL1 aims to bring the lifts to the backcountry. It wasn’t shaping up to be a great day at Lolo Pass. The already-thin Montana snowpack was being pummeled by warm April weather, my ...

Rope tows certainly make life easier if you're skiing at a groomed, established hill, but what if you're more into backcountry skiing? Well, that's where the Zoa PL1 comes in, as it's a portable rope ...