"Local resorts will have plenty of terrain to offer skiers and riders for the Thanksgiving weekend"
This was the byline for an article in the Summit Daily News, November 25, 2005, written by Nicole Formosa. A summary of that article follows:
Summit County ski areas are dishing up more terrain to satisfy the appetites of skiers and snowboarders hungry for new snow this Thanksgiving weekend.
Copper Mountain will have the Super Bee Lift and Lower Andy's Encore, Lower Collage and Oh No trails open by Friday morning. The Rendezvous lift will be open Friday through Sunday to service beginner terrain.
Breckenridge Ski Resort has 1,400 acres of terrain, 20 lifts and 96 trails open between Peaks 8, 9 and 10, making it the mountain with the most available acreage in the nation.
Guests can access the newly opened terrain on several major lifts including the Falcon SuperChair, Snowflake, Peak 8 SuperConnect, the Colorado SuperChair and the Rocky Mountain SuperChair.
At Keystone, the Outback mountain's North and South bowls are scheduled to open Friday, boosting open terrain to 1,2o0 acres.
Loveland Ski Area is already 88 percent open.
All of Arapahoe Basin's beginner-level trails and most of its intermediate runs are open.
Susan Gunnin says this is one of the best Thanksgiving weekends I can remember. Check out local real estate conditions at her web site.
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Friday, November 18, 2005
Local ski areas open up more terrain
"New terrain is being opened quickly thanks to heavy, early season snowfall"
In a paraphrase of an article in the Summit Daily News, posted November 18, 2005, Nicole Formosa reports:
Nearly three feet of snow covered Summit County in the past week, priming local ski areas to open unusually large acres of terrain for the early season.
Arapahoe Basin spokesperson, Leigh Heirholzer said: "We have three times the amount of snow we had last year, year-to-date. The last time we had a base like this was January 30, 2004." A-Basin, has a 39 inch base.
Loveland ski area has 68 percent more snowfall than its average. The mountain reported a 40 inch base, and 34.5 inches since November 12.
Breckenridge Ski Resort will open 300 new acres of terrain for the coming weekend, including the Quicksilver Super 6 and Mercury Superchair on Peak 9. Peaks 8 and 10 are slated to open Wednesday, November 23, in time for the Thanksgiving holiday. "This will probably be the best opening we've had in years..." said Rick Sramek, vice president of Breckenridge operations.
Keystone Resort plans to open both the North Peak and Outback mountains on Saturday (November 19th), which will be the first time in recent memory all three mountains have opened this early. Keystone has a 34 inch base.
Copper Mountain will open the American Flyer and Timberline express lifts with service to about 20 new ski trails. A total of seven lifts, 46 trails and 546 acres of terrain will be open this coming weekend, prior to Thanksgiving.
Vail Mountain is READY. It opens today, November 18th, with a little over 1,000 acres of terrain on 72 trails, serviced by 11 lifts. Vail has nearly 6 feet of snow at the top of the mountain. For Thanksgiving, the resort will open an additional six lifts.
Beaver Creek opens November 23rd.
Susan Gunnin says "This is one of the most incredible starts to the ski season I've seen in my 14 years of living here."
For more information about Summit County and Breckenridge, visit Susan's web site.
Local ski areas open up more terrain
"New terrain is being opened quickly thanks to heavy, early season snowfall"
In a paraphrase of an article in the Summit Daily News, posted November 18, 2005, Nicole Formosa reports:
Nearly three feet of snow covered Summit County in the past week, priming local ski areas to open unusually large acres of terrain for the early season.
Arapahoe Basin spokesperson, Leigh Heirholzer said: "We have three times the amount of snow we had last year, year-to-date. The last time we had a base like this was January 30, 2004." A-Basin, has a 39 inch base.
Loveland ski area has 68 percent more snowfall than its average. The mountain reported a 40 inch base, and 34.5 inches since November 12.
Breckenridge Ski Resort will open 300 new acres of terrain for the coming weekend, including the Quicksilver Super 6 and Mercury Superchair on Peak 9. Peaks 8 and 10 are slated to open Wednesday, November 23, in time for the Thanksgiving holiday. "This will probably be the best opening we've had in years..." said Rick Sramek, vice president of Breckenridge operations.
Keystone Resort plans to open both the North Peak and Outback mountains on Saturday (November 19th), which will be the first time in recent memory all three mountains have opened this early. Keystone has a 34 inch base.
Copper Mountain will open the American Flyer and Timberline express lifts with service to about 20 new ski trails. A total of seven lifts, 46 trails and 546 acres of terrain will be open this coming weekend, prior to Thanksgiving.
Vail Mountain is READY. It opens today, November 18th, with a little over 1,000 acres of terrain on 72 trails, serviced by 11 lifts. Vail has nearly 6 feet of snow at the top of the mountain. For Thanksgiving, the resort will open an additional six lifts.
Beaver Creek opens November 23rd.
Susan Gunnin says "This is one of the most incredible starts to the ski season I've seen in my 13 years of living here."
For more information about Summit County and Breckenridge, visit Susan's web site.
Thursday, November 10, 2005
New Peak 8 Lift in Breckenridged
Breck proposes Peak 8 lift
Detachable quad would be the highest lift in North America and would 'change the perception' of the resort
Breckenridge -- What many consider to be some of the best advanced terrain the Breckenridge Ski Resort has to offer - the Imperial Bowl, the Lake Chutes and Peak 7 Bowl - has been available only to those willing to earn their turns by hiking.
That could change soon.
Bringing to life a desire on its wish list since the late 1990's, the resort in October will formally propose to the U.S. Forest Service a new chairlift to run from the top of Chair 6 up the spine of Imperial Bowl.
Should it be approved, the detachable quad could be ready for operation as early as the 2005-2006 winter, depending on how fast construction goes.
The Breckenridge "Summit Lift," as the resort is calling it, would be relatively low capacity (600 passengers per hour, compared to the 2,800 per hour that Breck's Colorado Super Chair transports), and would separate its chairs by up to 300 feet, to give the entire structure a minimal wind resistance.
It would unload at 12,840 feet, about 60 feet from the summit of Peak 8, and would be the highest lift in North America - surpassing Loveland's Chair 9, which peaks at 12,700 feet.
It would also be fast, rising 940 vertical feet in 2.7 minutes, and would directly access both the south- and north-facing Peak 8 bowls as well as the Lake Chutes and Peak 7 Bowl, with a short traverse in either direction.
In a sense, it would transform a ski area that has often been labeled a beginner's mountain. "This would change the perception of Breckenridge," said director of mountain operations Rick Sramek, who is leading the resort's push to get the lift approved. "It would certainly change the way advanced skiers skied the mountain."
The lift-building process
The lift approval process to this point has been relatively informal, one the resort has used to feel out the potential of the project. It began last fall with a general, here's-what-we'd-like-to-do briefing of the U.S. Forest Service. In that meeting, Sramek outlined what the resort had done to investigate the impact the lift would have on the environment, both biologically and botanically.
It would have little impact, the resort said.After creating topographical images to represent what the lift would look like and exactly where it would be located, Sramek and lift director Jon Mauch held a "courtesy meeting" along with Dillon Ranger District Ranger Rick Newton and winter sports administrator Joe Foreman to alert the Breckenridge Town Council and Summit County commissioners of the project last week.
Both Breckenridge Mayor Ernie Blake and Commissioner Bob French - who deals with Breck issues - gave the project a thumbs up.Sramek said the resort will present its formal proposal to Newton - who will ultimately decide whether of not the lift goes in - in mid-October.According to Newton, the two primary cons the Forest Service will consider are the following: boundary issues - will this encourage people to use the ski area more to access the back-country? - and visuals - how intrusive, if at all, would the lift be to those looking up from the town?
Newton, who is in his first year as DRD ranger, said that because there is no timber in the proposed impact area, "wildlife issues and ground-impact issues are pretty benign."He also said that although public input would be something to consider, he's unlikely to be swayed in either direction by letter volume. "It's not a voting game," he said.On that note, Mauch said, "I'm confident it will get approved, personally."
Detachable quad would be the highest lift in North America and would 'change the perception' of the resort
Breckenridge -- What many consider to be some of the best advanced terrain the Breckenridge Ski Resort has to offer - the Imperial Bowl, the Lake Chutes and Peak 7 Bowl - has been available only to those willing to earn their turns by hiking.
That could change soon.
Bringing to life a desire on its wish list since the late 1990's, the resort in October will formally propose to the U.S. Forest Service a new chairlift to run from the top of Chair 6 up the spine of Imperial Bowl.
Should it be approved, the detachable quad could be ready for operation as early as the 2005-2006 winter, depending on how fast construction goes.
The Breckenridge "Summit Lift," as the resort is calling it, would be relatively low capacity (600 passengers per hour, compared to the 2,800 per hour that Breck's Colorado Super Chair transports), and would separate its chairs by up to 300 feet, to give the entire structure a minimal wind resistance.
It would unload at 12,840 feet, about 60 feet from the summit of Peak 8, and would be the highest lift in North America - surpassing Loveland's Chair 9, which peaks at 12,700 feet.
It would also be fast, rising 940 vertical feet in 2.7 minutes, and would directly access both the south- and north-facing Peak 8 bowls as well as the Lake Chutes and Peak 7 Bowl, with a short traverse in either direction.
In a sense, it would transform a ski area that has often been labeled a beginner's mountain. "This would change the perception of Breckenridge," said director of mountain operations Rick Sramek, who is leading the resort's push to get the lift approved. "It would certainly change the way advanced skiers skied the mountain."
The lift-building process
The lift approval process to this point has been relatively informal, one the resort has used to feel out the potential of the project. It began last fall with a general, here's-what-we'd-like-to-do briefing of the U.S. Forest Service. In that meeting, Sramek outlined what the resort had done to investigate the impact the lift would have on the environment, both biologically and botanically.
It would have little impact, the resort said.After creating topographical images to represent what the lift would look like and exactly where it would be located, Sramek and lift director Jon Mauch held a "courtesy meeting" along with Dillon Ranger District Ranger Rick Newton and winter sports administrator Joe Foreman to alert the Breckenridge Town Council and Summit County commissioners of the project last week.
Both Breckenridge Mayor Ernie Blake and Commissioner Bob French - who deals with Breck issues - gave the project a thumbs up.Sramek said the resort will present its formal proposal to Newton - who will ultimately decide whether of not the lift goes in - in mid-October.According to Newton, the two primary cons the Forest Service will consider are the following: boundary issues - will this encourage people to use the ski area more to access the back-country? - and visuals - how intrusive, if at all, would the lift be to those looking up from the town?
Newton, who is in his first year as DRD ranger, said that because there is no timber in the proposed impact area, "wildlife issues and ground-impact issues are pretty benign."He also said that although public input would be something to consider, he's unlikely to be swayed in either direction by letter volume. "It's not a voting game," he said.On that note, Mauch said, "I'm confident it will get approved, personally."
Monday, November 07, 2005
NBC's 'Three Wishes' taping in Breck this week
Special Christmas episode will feature children's wishes from around the country;
Amy Grant concert is Wednesday.
In an article posted by Jennifer Harper in the Summit Daily News, November 7th, we learn that Amy Grant is coming to town. "It's beginning to look like Christmas in Breckenridge, but Santa Claus isn't coming -- NBC is!"
A summary of the article continues: NBC will be shooting the holiday episode of "Three Wishes" this week in Breckenridge. All Breckenridge businesses have been asked to decorate for Christmas a little early, so a trip through Breckenridge shows sights of lights, wreaths and ornaments.
The show features five-time Grammy Award winner Amy Grant as host visiting communities all over the country to grant wishes to deserving people.
The Christmas episode, however, is a depature from traditional episodes, since there will not be the usual 'wish tent'.
Breckenridge is providing the backdrop for Amy Grant's Christmas show, and there will be wishes granted on the stage.
Her executive producer says "Breckenridge is a charming, quaint location, and we really like the Main Street charm. It's the perfect backdrop for a special about Christmas wishes and kids.
The episode will air on NBC, Friday, December 2nd.
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