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Tuesday 5 April 2011

Mount Snow


Mount Snow is a mountain and ski area in southern Vermont located in the Green Mountains. It is the closest big mountain to many North- east metropolitan areas in Vermont. A co-host of the first Extreme Games in 1995 and host of the Winter X-Games in 2000 and 2001, Peak resorts currently own it.
It is made up of four separate mountain areas: Main face, North face, Sunbrook, and Carinthia. Main Face is divided into smaller areas. At the base of the Main Face is a Launch Pad is a learning area close to the main base area’s clock tower and ski school, and a learning area by the Sundance Lodge. The North Face located to the north of Main Face, is home to some of the Mount Snow's most advanced terrain.  On the southern face of the mountain, is Sunbrookwhich offers scenic trails, great on bluebird days.

The current Statistics-
Summit Elevation: 3,600 ft (1,100 m)
Vertical Drop: 1,700 ft (520 m)
Skiable area: 490 acres (2.0 km2)
Annual Average Snowfall: 156 inches
Trails: 80
Lifts: 20 Total 4 High Speed Quads: 3 - Fixed Quads: 1 - Triples: 7 - Doubles: 4 - Surface Lifts: 4 - Rope Tows: 1
Snowmaking: 80%
Night Skiing: only on the Grommet Terrain Park and Tubing.

Mount Snow has decided a 30-year plan to expand the resort and have recently redone their snowmaking systems and now they plan to redo the base lodge and install new lifts.They are already building a new six pack bubble lift to in place of the summit local lift as there has not been significant lift improvements at the Mount Snow for many years.

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