New at Vail
Blue Sky Basin Turns 10!
The 2009-2010 winter ski and snowboard season will mark the 10th anniversary of Vail’s Blue Sky Basin, featuring a vast expanse of wilderness-like terrain facing Vail’s legendary Back Bowls. Pete Seibert and Earl Eaton’s vision for Vail Mountain became a reality with Blue Sky Basin. The outer-most area of Vail Mountain offers intermediate and expert skiers and riders a variety of moguls, glades, tree skiing, cliffs and ridges with a distinct backcountry feel. Find fresh tracks and secret stashes on a powder day in Blue Sky Basin or Vail’s seven legendary Back Bowls, stretching seven miles wide. On an average day, there are only two skiers per acre, and on a busy day, only four!
New at Beaver Creek
Tubing Headed to New Heights!
Known for its diverse and abundant family activities, Beaver Creek Resort is taking its tubing program to new heights. For the 2009-2010 season there will be a new, lift-served six lane tubing hill operating in the prime afternoon activity hours. The tubing lanes run 300 feet in length and will be located just below The Ranch, our on-mountain children’s ski school center. Pricing for the new tubing activity will be announced in the fall. Nightly family activities will continue six of seven afternoons throughout the season including family snowshoe tours, ice skating, rail jams, and Thursday Night Lights. Kids also love the Game Garage, Rebound Trampoline and après s’mores at the Park Hyatt. It’s the perfect way to invest in quality family time and create lasting memories.
New at Breckenridge
Happy 150th Birthday Breckenridge!
The Town of Breckenridge is celebrating its 150th birthday this year, so it’s hard to forget that before Breckenridge was a ski resort, it was a town. And over the past 150 years, the spirit of the town hasn’t shifted much. Breckies around the world are passionate about spending days or years in “Breck” because of the history, heritage and characters that have made this Victorian mining town what it is today and why visitors and locals agree it is the Perfect Mountain Town. Breckenridge launches renaissance of Peak 8 with the start of One Ski Hill Place, a RockResort.
New at Keystone
New Skier Bridge to the River Run Gondola!
Last year, Keystone began operating a new state-of-the-art eight-passenger gondola in River Run Village. This year, the final phase of the project will be completed with a new skier bridge connecting the mountain back to the gondola giving guests a shorter walk from the slopes to the gondola and making access to the gondola easier from the mountain.
New at Heavenly
New four-lane tubing hill!
For winter 2009-10 Heavenly will debut a new, four-lane tubing hill, accessed by a state-of-the-art magic carpet reminiscent of the Jetsons. Stretching hundreds of feet up East Peak, the new tubing hill will be an incredible addition to Heavenly’s Adventure Peak family recreation area.