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Vail Ski Resort is a ski resort in the western United States, located near the town of Vail in Eagle County, Colorado. At 5,289 acres (8.3 sq mi; 21.4 km 2 ), it is the third-largest single-mountain ski resort in the U.S., behind Big Sky and Park City , [ 1 ] featuring seven bowls and intermediate gladed terrain in Blue Sky Basin .
NordicTrack was founded by Edward and Florence Pauls in 1975, when Ed Pauls invented the original NordicTrack ski machine in his garage in Chaska, Minnesota, [1] in an effort to train for the local VJC cross-country ski race. Ed Pauls was an engineer, usually got home after dark, and was motivated to beat his Swedish friend in the race.
SkiFree is a casual single-player sports simulator wherein the player uses the keyboard or the mouse to control a skier across a white background representing snow on a mountainside. [3][4][5] The object of the game is to ski down an endless slope and avoid the obstacles (trees, stumps, dogs, etc.). [6] The player can also opt to partake in ...
Chicopee Ski Club. Chicopee Ski & Summer Resort (formerly "Chicopee Ski Club" [citation needed]) is a winter and summer recreation club in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, founded December 29, 1934 (89 years ago), [2][3] as a not-for-profit organisation on 165 acres (0.67 km 2). The Chicopee ski hill has a maximum vertical drop of 200 ft (61 m).
The number of snow ski areas and resorts in the United States peaked in the late 1960s at around 1000 areas. [1] Since then many small, rope-tow only areas have closed or consolidated. [2] The following listing accounts for US ski areas that are currently operational. It is restricted to ski lift-served alpine skiing areas, both public and private.
Holmenkollbakken. Holmenkollbakken is a large ski jumping hill located at Holmenkollen in Oslo, Norway. It has a hill size of HS134, a construction point of K-120, and a capacity for 70,000 spectators. Holmenkollen has hosted the Holmenkollen Ski Festival since 1892, which since 1980 have been part of the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup and 1983 the ...
U.S. Ski & Snowboard, formerly known as the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association, [1] [2] is the national governing body for Olympic and Paralympic skiing and snowboarding. Founded in 1905, the organization provides leadership and direction for skiers and snowboarders from over 400 member clubs.
In the 1987-1988 ski season, Breckenridge topped one million skier visits, as it was sold to Victoria Ltd of Tokyo. Local residents supported the change in ownership, as some believed that the Aspen Skiing Company was exploiting revenue from Breckenridge to support its own four ski areas. Despite Aspen's withdrawal of ownership, some trail ...