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Sunrise Park Resort is an alpine ski resort located near Greer, Arizona. The resort consists of three mountains named Sunrise Peak, Cyclone Circle, and Apache Peak. Situated on the Colorado Plateau and perched atop the White Mountains in eastern Arizona. The base of the resort sits at 9,200 feet (2,800 m) and the tallest mountain, Apache Peak ...
Comparison table of North American ski resorts Resort name and website Nearest city State/province Peak elevation (ft) Base elevation (ft) Vertical drop (ft) Skiable acreage Total trails Total lifts Avg annual snowfall (in) Adult weekend lift ticket window price (USD) Date statistics updated Ski Bromont: Bromont: Quebec: 1,854 590 1,264 450 141 ...
"The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast" news blog lists 503 separate, [a] non-private, [b] lift-served, "active ski areas" as of October 16, 2003. [5] Of the 503 that are on Storm Skiing's list 102 have only surface lifts ; 401 have one or more chairlifts ; and 45 are private or semi-private, where there is some membership, enrollment, residency ...
Ski resorts (and other venues that issue tickets) commonly use a wicket to secure the ticket (called a "ticket wicket"), a short piece of light wire which loops through the ticket holder's clothing or backpack. The ticket wicket was invented by Killington Ski Resort employee Martin S. "Charlie" Hanley, in 1963, and given its name by his wife Jane.
Arizona Snowbowl is an alpine ski resort in the southwest United States, located on the San Francisco Peaks of northern Arizona, fifteen miles (24 km) north of Flagstaff. [1] The Snowbowl ski area covers approximately one percent of the San Francisco Peaks, [ 2 ] and its slopes face west and northwest.
Since 2001, the ski area has been owned by Powdr Corporation of Park City, Utah. [2] It is the largest ski resort (by area) by more than 1,000 acres (4.0 km 2) in Oregon, [3] the second largest single-mountain ski resort in the U.S., behind Vail in Colorado, and the sixth largest of all ski resorts in the nation. [clarification needed]
The Mountain High East Resort, originally known as Holiday Hill, opened in 1948. [2] In the 1960s, the cost of a lift ticket was $1.50. [3] In 1979, the resort was sold to the new owner of the Mountain High resort and used primarily as parking for the West Resort, as well as add terrain when there was adequate snow and skiing conditions.
Lift accessed mountain biking or Mountain bike park is a summer activity that is spreading all over the world. Using the chairlifts or gondola lifts at a ski area , mountain bikers can get up to higher altitudes quickly.