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[DonaldMReif]

Technically, I think Spanish Peaks has been incorporated into Big Sky's terrain. I mean, I think Moonlight Basin is now considered a section of Big Sky instead of being a separate area.

[SkiDaBird]

Backbowlsbilly, on 23 October 2014 - 03:37 PM, said:

I saw that the Spanish Peaks lifts were on there, does that mean if you buy a ticket to Big Sky, you get access to the Spanish Peaks lifts too?

Big Sky bought Spanish Peaks and Moonlight last summer.

[vons]

Spanish peaks and Moonlight are all part of Big Sky and on the ticket, Spanish Peaks is pretty lame though, nothing more than a real estate and short flat runs.

[Peter Pitcher]

missouriskier, on 22 October 2014 - 11:37 AM, said:

I have been excitedly waiting to see this new map. Lone Tree is positively a quad. I rode it two winters ago multiple times with the other three members of my family in the same chair. Also, I didn't know there were any facilities at the bottom of Pony Express. I guess I never skied down there and rode that lift. I do see a parking lot on the map at the bottom of it.

It is good to hear that beautiful lodge is reopening. That was a location that could really use an on-mountain restaurant.

The last time I rode the Lone Tree lift it was a short diesel powered relocated YAN triple, it is in the Moonlight part of the Big Sky resort. I don't know about Lone Pine

[boardski]

The Lone Tree is a CTEC quad fixed grip, that relocated YAN triple is Lone Moose. It was formerly the Santiago lift at Keystone from '84 to '98. I rode it many times as a kid. The only other "Lone" lift I can think of is Lone Peak which is the Heron triple that goes to the Lone Peak tram, I guess that makes two more "Lone" lifts. Lone Moose is just below Thunder Wolf though on the Big Sky section. Unless they added another lift?...

[Peter Pitcher]

boardski, on 24 October 2014 - 07:23 PM, said:

The Lone Tree is a CTEC quad fixed grip, that relocated YAN triple is Lone Moose. It was formerly the Santiago lift at Keystone from '84 to '98. I rode it many times as a kid. The only other "Lone" lift I can think of is Lone Peak which is the Heron triple that goes to the Lone Peak tram, I guess that makes two more "Lone" lifts. Lone Moose is just below Thunder Wolf though on the Big Sky section. Unless they added another lift?...

Yes, Lone Moose is a long relocated YAN triple with Dopplemayr sheaves, grips, chair hangers but with YAN chairs, interesting lift. You might be right about Lone Tree, sometimes I think I know but I am wrong but I just don't remember a CTEC Quad. What ever it is, it was relocated, it was diesel powered but I believe it has been converted to electric with a Lifttramix Drive

[silence]

New Vail maps are up:

Front side
Back Bowls/Blue Sky

Looks like they added WFO and Tea Cup Glades to the Back Bowls map. I don't remember those being on there last year but I could be wrong.

[Backbowlsbilly]

silence, on 11 November 2014 - 10:16 AM, said:

New Vail maps are up:

Front side
Back Bowls/Blue Sky

Looks like they added WFO and Tea Cup Glades to the Back Bowls map. I don't remember those being on there last year but I could be wrong.

Yep, those two are definitely new, hopefully I can check those out this year since they look like some fun glades at the bottom of the Back Bowls.

[DonaldMReif]

Doesn't look like they affect the boundaries, though, or the number of skiable acres.

[silence]

Both of those have been open for previous seasons. I don't know about WFO but there has been a sign and entrance gate for 'Lower Tea Cup Bowl', which I guess has been renamed to Tea Cup Glades, for at least a couple of years now.

I've ridden the Tea Cup Glades plenty in the past but always had to cut under the rope after coming down Tea Cup Bowl, not to mention having to stay skiers right in Tea Cup just to be able to get them. It's a really cool aspen tree glades area though. The problem is if you want to hit the whole thing and not cut under a rope then you have to take Sleepy Time to the gate and miss out on the upper half of the bowls. Hopefully they've removed the rope or at least added some more entry gates..

This post has been edited by silence: 11 November 2014 - 05:45 PM

[DonaldMReif]

Breckenridge's 2014-2015 map is out. In addition to the addition of the Colorado SuperChair and the Overlook Restaurant on Peak 9, they've done some other changes to the map:

A red-black dashed line is used to mark the area boundary.

The learning area lifts now have their names inside small bubbles, just like the chairlifts and the T-Bar.

Dashed yellow lines are now used to denote boundary ropes set on above timberline terrain, like at the edge of the blue terrain off the Kensho SuperChair, that can only be crossed by entering through an open access gate.

The solid line for Lift 5 has been extended downhill a bit, so that it actually starts at the Peak 8 base like it's supposed to, as opposed to start a couple hundred feet uphill. The line for the Independence SuperChair has been extended uphill to actually end where the Wanderlust catwalk begins. Under the previous map, the icons for the EpicMix photo spot, the tool bench, and warming hut at the top of the lift were placed where the upper terminal of the lift is located, meaning the map made it look like the lift ended at tower 19 instead of at tower 23.

One of the blue lines on Peak 6 has been erased so that Delirum actually doesn't join up with Barton Breezeway until just above the Zendo Chair's unloading area. On last year's map, they made it look like the two had a crossover well uphill from the Kensho SuperChair, and one trail returned to the Kensho SuperChair while the other crossed under the Zendo Chair around tower 8 and merged with Lost Horizon. The reality is that the two meet just above Zendo's unloading area, where you have two options: you can go left, down the hill with the Slow signs, to return to the Kensho SuperChair for another run, or head to the Horizon Warming Hut to warm up, or you can go right, cross under the Zendo Chair, and access Lost Horizon or the Zendo Lift Line to return to the Independence SuperChair and Peak 7 base area.

Additionally, this map does not feature the Ten Mile Flyer zipline that is accessible via Lift 7/Rip's Ride.

 Breckenridge 2014-2015 trail map low quality.jpg (1.87MB)
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This post has been edited by DonaldMReif: 31 December 2014 - 02:18 PM

[Peter]

Lake Louise has all new maps painted by James Niehues:

http://www.skilouise.../trail-maps.php

[Flalex72]

With some changes this year at the small, not for profit ski hill I work/volunteer at, I decided to make a new trail map. Drawing isn't my thing (engineering student) but I thought I might as well try, and I'm failry pleased with the result. I used some maps from James Niehues as inspiration and reference, and although it's far from his level of work it shows the contours nicely. Some of the perspectives of the buildings are also little off, but I'll work on them in the future. The other issue is that each time I took a break for a couple weeks and got back to drawing, I drew the trees slightly differently, which you can see if you look at different areas of the map.

Rather than uplad it, you can see the map here: http://laurentianski...visit/trail-map

I drew it in Sketchbook on my Microsoft Surface tablet, which has a Wacom pen. The lift lines, runs and text were added in Photoshop, so I can change the map in the future without having to redo all the trails. Let me know if you have any questions, this is only my second post on the forum, though I've been lurking since 2008.

This post has been edited by Flalex72: 01 December 2014 - 06:19 PM

[SkiDaBird]

Flalex72, on 30 November 2014 - 09:10 PM, said:

With some changes this year at the small, not for profit ski hill I work/volunteer at, I decided to make a new trail map. Drawing isn't my thing (enineering student) but I thought I might as well try, and I'm failry pleased with the result. I used some maps from James Niehues as inspiration and reference, and although it's far from his level of work it shows the contours nicely. Some of the perspectives of the buildings are also little off, but I'll work on them in the future. THe other issue is that each time I took a break for a couple weeks and got back to drawing, I drew the trees slightly differently, which you can see if you look at different areas of the map.

Rather than uplad it, you can see the map here: http://laurentianski...visit/trail-map

I drew it in Sketchbook on my Microsoft Surface tablet, which has a Wacom pen. The lift lines, runs and text were added in Photoshop, so I can change the map in the future without having to redo all the trails. Let me know if you have any questions, this is only my second post on the forum, though I've been lurking since 2008.

That looks fantastic. Great job!

[DonaldMReif]

Mount Sunapee's new map reflecting the Sunbowl Express lift:

[DonaldMReif]

Compared to last year, it seems that Keystone has darkened the colors used on their trail map a bit:

Last year (2013):

This year (2014-2015):