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This image has been assessed under the valued image criteria and is considered the most valued image on Commons within the scope: Winter view of Les Menuires in the Belleville valley. You can see its nomination here .
A ski pass, with wicket. A lift ticket or lift pass is an identifier usually attached to a skier's or snowboarder's outerwear that indicates they have paid and can ride on the ski lift(s) that transport people and equipment up or down a mountain. [1]
During the 1950s, Service of the Study and Development of Mountain Tourism (SEATM) was created by the local authorities to create the ski resort of Courchevel.Due to its great success, in the 1960s the mayor of Saint-Martin-de-Belleville decided to follow suit and create a society with the plan to create 100 000 beds divided between the two main resorts of Les Menuires and Val Thorens, plus ...
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Thus, Les Trois Vallées is the largest connected ski area in the world [2] which is linked solely by ski lifts and slopes. It claims to have about 600 km (370 mi) of ski slopes, resulting in 18.5 km² of groomed runs, while an independent expert measured about 493 km. [ 3 ] In addition, there are 120 km for cross-country skiing.
Chilkoot Pass (el. 3,759 feet or 1,146 metres) is a high mountain pass through the Boundary Ranges of the Coast Mountains in the U.S. state of Alaska and British Columbia, Canada. It is the highest point along the Chilkoot Trail that leads from Dyea, Alaska to Bennett Lake , British Columbia.
1999 – The Portes du Soleil is one of the first ski areas in the world to use hands-free lift pass recognition turnstiles. 2008 – On December 6, the first eight-seater chairlift in French-speaking Switzerland entered service. To this day, it is the most efficient ski lift in the Portes du Soleil with a capacity of 4,000 people per hour.
Chicopee Ski & Summer Resort (formerly "Chicopee Ski Club" [citation needed]) is a winter and summer recreation club in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, founded December 29, 1934 (90 years ago) (), [2] [3] as a not-for-profit organisation on 165 acres (0.67 km 2). The Chicopee ski hill has a maximum vertical drop of 200 ft (61 m).