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The upper part of Peak 8, is composed of advanced and expert terrain. This area is made up of expert chutes, the lower part being accessed by the Peak 8 SuperConnect, while the upper part is accessed from 6-chair. Two lifts on Peak 8 go above tree-line: the T-Bar, accessible from the Rocky Mountain SuperChair, services northern Peak 8's chutes.
Name Nearest city Skiable area (acres) Top elevation (feet) Base elevation (feet) Vertical (feet) Runs Lifts Snowfall (in/year) Date Statistics Updated
Breckenridge is a home rule municipality that is the county seat and most populous municipality of Summit County, Colorado, United States. [1] [7] The town population was 5,078 at the 2020 United States Census. [4] Breckenridge is the principal town of the Breckenridge, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area. The town also has many part-time ...
December 8, 2019 [299] Pats Peak Ski Area: Henniker: New Hampshire: 1,460 690 770 103 28 11 100 $75 December 8, 2019 [300] Ragged Mountain Resort: Danbury: New Hampshire: 2250 1000 1,250 250 57 6 100 $87 December 8, 2019 [301] Red Hill Ski Area: Moultonborough: New Hampshire: 820 610 210 9 1 $25/season December 8, 2019 [302] Storrs Hill Ski ...
[8] [9] Prior to Breckenridge Ski Resort's construction of the Imperial Express SuperChair in 2005, Lift 9 was the highest offloading chairlift in North America. In 2011, the aging Lift 4 was replaced with a triple chairlift. [10] For 2015, Lift 2 was split in half, and it was shortened to end at its midstation.
The other slopes of the peak are steep and appeal to expert backcountry skiers. [7] One such steep ski mountaineering route is the Cristo Couloir. In June 2021 the Colorado Fourteeners Initiative announced that Quandary Peak was Colorado's most popular 14'er in 2020. [8] The Initiative's data indicated that the peak saw 49,179 hiker days in 2020.
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.
Of the most prominent summits of Colorado, only Mount Elbert exceeds 2000 meters (6562 feet) of topographic prominence. Three peaks are ultra-prominent summits with more than 1500 meters (4921 feet) of topographic prominence and 14 peaks exceed 1000 meters (3281 feet) of topographic prominence.