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Rikert Outdoor Center, formerly known as Rikert Nordic Center, is a cross-country skiing, snowshoeing, and FatBiking area in Ripton, Vermont. [1] It is owned and operated by Middlebury College and located 20 minutes southeast of Middlebury, Vermont on Middlebury College's Breadloaf Campus, where it is home to the Middlebury College Nordic Ski Team.
Morse sold the ski area to Bennington attorney Joseph Parks in October 1978. Night skiing and cross country skiing (the former Timberlane Trails touring center) operations were added for 1979–1980. [1] Prospect Mountain has over 35 kilometers of expertly groomed ski trails, and offers excellent skiing to everyone from racers to families.
The mountain features 600+ skiable acres, 100 acres of trails and 500 acres of skiable woods. [4] Averaging 200 inches (5.1 m) of natural snowfall annually, [5] additional snowmaking covers nearly half of all trails, including most terrain served by the Worth Mountain and Sheehan chairlifts. The Snowbowl's eastern face, colloquially known as ...
There's a full event calendar at Mount Snow for 2023-2024, including a Santa Parade on Dec. 23, and torchlight parades on both Dec. 31 and Jan. 13, the latter in honor of Martin Luther King Weekend.
Gavett was undeterred and had his ski instructors prepare by skiing the mountain blindfolded. Peppel was able to ski the entire mountain with an instructor as a guide. As their expertise in this area grew, they hired Jim Gardner, an amputee, as a ski instructor. As a result, Haystack had seven blind, four deaf, and five amputee skiers regularly ...
The Quechee Ski Area is a small ski mountain in Quechee, Vermont, United States.. The mountain has 13 trails and 3 lifts: 1 quadruple chairlift, 1 T-bar and 1 H-tow. [1] The main lift, "Quadzilla" services the top of the ski area, going from an altitude of 640 feet to 1,220 feet, for a vertical drop of 580 feet; the rope tow and t-bar are part of the beginner area.
Jay Peak Resort is an American ski resort located on Jay Peak in the northern Green Mountains, between Jay, Vermont and Montgomery Center, Vermont.Its vertical drop of 2,153 feet (656 m) is the eighth largest in New England and the fifth largest in Vermont. [2]
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]