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Breckenridge and other ski resorts faced a severe drought in the winter of 1980-1981 and installed snowmaking systems the following year. In 1981, Breckenridge installed the world's first high speed detachable quad chairlift, the Quicksilver Quad running from the Village base area to near the bottom of Lift B. The lift was constructed by ...
Name Nearest city Skiable area (acres) Top elevation (feet) Base elevation (feet) Vertical (feet) Runs Lifts Snowfall (in/year) Date Statistics Updated
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Jackson Hole Mountain Resort: Teton Village: Wyoming: 10,450 6,311 ... Heavenly Mountain Resort: South Lake Tahoe: ... Park City Mountain Resort [81] Park City: Utah:
Breckenridge. BreckConnect Gondola; Cañon City. Royal Gorge Aerial Gondola; Keystone. River Run Gondola; Outpost Gondola; Snowmass. Elk Camp; Sky Cab (Pulse Gondola, Cabriolet) Steamboat. Silver Bullet Gondola (first 8-passenger gondola in the world) Wild Blue Gondola; Telluride. Mountain Village Gondola; Vail. Eagle Bahn Gondola; Gondola One ...
Open-air gondolas can also come in a style similar to that of pulse gondolas, like the Village Gondola at Panorama Ski Resort, British Columbia. The first gondola built in the United States for a ski resort was at the Wildcat Mountain Ski Area. It was a two-person gondola built in 1957 and serviced skiers until 1999.
The large foreground mountain is "Drift Peak" at 13,900 feet (4,237 m) above sea level. [1] Fletcher Mountain is the smaller-looking peak to the left, though with an elevation of 13,951 feet (4,252 m) it is taller than Drift. Only Quandary Peak is higher in the Tenmile Range than Fletcher Mountain. Clinton Reservoir can be seen in the foreground.
Image credits: Detroit Photograph Company "There was a two-color process invented around 1913 by Kodak that used two glass plates in contact with each other, one being red-orange and the other ...