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Killington averages 250 inches (20.8 ft; 6.4 m) of natural snow each winter, coupled with a snowmaking system that covers 71% of the trails. This has allowed Killington to offer what is often the longest skiing season in eastern North America, which usually spans from late October to late May, [16] over 200 days. It has opened as early as ...
The Games returned to Mount Snow the following year. Mount Snow's Kelly Clark, bronze medalist of 2014 Olympic Women's half-pipe, [7] won the first American gold medal of the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City in women's half-pipe. She is a graduate of the Mount Snow Academy and the first athlete from Mount Snow to win an Olympic gold medal.
In August 2017, SKI MAGIC LLC obtained a Vermont ACT 250 permit for upgrades to snow-making, lifts and lodge. A new magic carpet style lift and beginner/learn-to-ski area, new snow-making pipe, new mid-mountain double chair, and expanded snowmaking pond are key projects in the works for the 2017/18 and 2018/19 seasons.
Meanwhile, Mount Snow provides a little over 200 beds for employee housing and is — in large part due to Vail's $20-an-hour minimum wage — staffed so well that the resort can provide free bag ...
On rare occasions, Sugarbush has hosted "Summerstage" concerts in the offseason. The Vermont band Phish performed at the resort on July 16, 1994, and the complete concert was released on the album Live Phish Volume 2 in 2001. [7] The band performed two more concerts at the venue in July 1995. [8] [9] Sugarbush has two top-rated disc golf courses.
Stowe Mountain Resort is a ski resort in the northeastern United States, near the town of Stowe in northern Vermont, comprising two separate mountains: Mount Mansfield and Spruce Peak. The lift-served vertical drop of Mount Mansfield is 2,360 feet (719 m), the fifth largest in New England and the fourth largest in Vermont.
A sizable expansion took place the following season, when thirty acres of terrain, served by a new double chairlift, were opened in the new Snow Bowl. 1966–67 saw an expansion of the base lodge giving way to the regions first Apre' Ski parties and the birth of The Stratton Mountain Boys and the installation of another double chairlift.
Its vertical drop of 2,153 feet (656 m) is the eighth largest in New England and the fifth largest in Vermont. [1] Although mostly located in the town of Jay, part of the resort, including the summit of Jay Peak, the Jet Triple Chair area, and much of the Big Jay backcountry descent, is located in the town of Westfield, Vermont, to the