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Sunday River is a ski resort located in Newry, Maine, in the United States.It is one of Maine's largest and most visited ski resorts. Its vertical drop of 2,340 feet (710 m) is the second largest in Maine (after Sugarloaf) and the sixth largest in New England.
No major winter storms are on the horizon for the Northeast or New England into the first week of February, but with a solid snowpack already in place across interior New England, ski resorts will ...
Loon Mountain Ski Resort is a ski resort in Lincoln, Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. It is located on Loon Mountain and sits within the White Mountain National Forest . Its vertical drop of 2,190 feet (670 m) is the eighth largest in New England .
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 ravine is named after botanist Edward Tuckerman who studied alpine plants and lichens in the area in the 1830s and 1840s. According to the New England Ski Museum, the first recorded use of skis on Mount Washington was by a Dr. Wiskott of Breslau, Germany, who skied on the mountain in 1899, while the first skier in Tuckerman Ravine was John S. Apperson of Schenectady, New York, in April 1914.
You have to be a stoic to ski in New England. But the will of even the most hardened skiers and snowboarders accustomed to nasty freeze-thaw cycles every season was pushed to the limit by the ...
Killington Mountain Resort & Ski Area is a ski resort in Rutland County, Vermont, United States, near the town of Killington. It is the largest ski area in the eastern U.S., and has the largest vertical drop in New England at 3,050 feet (930 meters). [3] [4] The mountain has been nicknamed the "Beast of the East." [5]
The National Ski Patrol was based on the Mount Mansfield Ski Patrol, [4] the oldest in the nation founded in 1934. Stowe Mountain was also the first ski area in Vermont to have a single chair, which was installed by American Steel & Wire Company in 1940. [5] Stowe was the second area in New England to have a chairlift, the first being Gunstock ...