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Lake Winnipesaukee, with Mount Washington and the snow-capped Presidential Range on the horizon. Originally known as Belknap Mountain Recreation Area, Gunstock Mountain Resort was built by the Works Progress Administration, a New Deal agency that provided employment and created public works projects throughout the United States during the Great Depression. [2]
The ski area sat dormant for much of the 1990s, before reopening in 2002. The area currently offers hiking and dog walking and expert-level enduro-style mountain bike trails, a rope tow for alpine skiing and tubing, and has terrain lit for night operations. While the area once sported a 600-foot (180 m) vertical drop, only 120 feet (37 m) are ...
Gunstock Mountain is the second highest peak in the Belknap Mountains of central New Hampshire with an elevation greater than 2240 feet (683 m). It is located 1 mile (1.6 km) north of Belknap Mountain, the highest point in the range. It is home to the Gunstock Mountain Resort ski area. The ski resort has been written up in national ski ...
Summer tubing is the summer variant of snow tubing. Hard bottom tubes slide down artificial slopes, usually made of special plastic. They can be installed on mountains by ski resorts and can also be found in amusement parks. [13] In Europe, this kind of tubing is primarily produced by Neveplast, Tubingsystem, Mr. Snow, and Sunkid. [14] [15] [16]
The following is a list of ski areas in New England by vertical drop. Unless otherwise noted, vertical drop figures are from Verticalfeet.com , vertical for Bolton Valley and Magic Mountain directly from their websites.
The US SuperTour is a series of cross-country skiing events arranged by the International Ski Federation (FIS). [1] It is one of the nine FIS Cross-Country Continental Cups, a second-level competition ranked below the Cross-Country World Cup.
A hydrofoil is towed water ski where the participant is seated on the ski. The ski consists of a seat tower and board, as well as a foil, which rides beneath the water’s surface, with front and rear wings. The participant straps into the hydrofoil ski and secures the safety straps on the seat tower and the foot bindings.
The Ski Tour is a professional Alpine skiing and a Half-pipe Freeskiing league founded in 2007 [1] and sanctioned by the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association. [2] In addition to the sporting events, The Ski Tour also features an entertainment package — The Base Camp Music Experience [3] — that includes concerts, parties, and other non-athletic events at each of the tour's venues.