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On the morning of October 19, 1998, a group of Earth Liberation Front activists set fire to several lifts and buildings at Vail Ski Resort. [1] This was one of the most serious ecotage attacks in the history of the United States, causing $12 million in damages, which caught the attention of the nation. [2]
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 .
Peter Werner Seibert (August 7, 1924 – July 15, 2002) [2] was an American skier and the founder of Vail Ski Resort in Colorado. [3] He was inducted into the Colorado Ski (and Snowboard) Hall of Fame in 1980.
An 8-year-old boy with Down syndrome became a hero after he alerted his 14-year-old sister of a fire in their Colorado home, helping them get out on time before it was engulfed in flames.
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19 October 1998, Vail, Colorado: The ELF claims responsibility for burning five buildings and four chair lifts at the Vail Mountain ski resort in Vail, Colorado, causing in excess of $12 million in damages. The action came only five days after a court had ruled that Vail could proceed with its planned Category III expansion into the Two Elks ...
The Basin opened on 6 January 2000 with three high-speed quad chairlifts, an extra 525 acres (2.12 km 2) added to Vail's already enormous size — over 5,000 acres (20 km 2). Blue Sky Basin offers a more natural ski experience down its 1,900-foot (580 m) vertical drop, with mostly meadows and glades, rather than wide, clear-cut runs.
In North America, resorts including Banff Sunshine in Canada and Arapahoe Basin in Colorado trap wind-blown snow with a network of fences for redistribution to other parts of the ski area but they ...