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#1 Peter

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Posted 24 September 2006 - 01:00 PM

What are some of the major ski areas with no detachables?



Here are some I can think of:

Taos, NM

Mount Baker, WA

Loveland. CO

Arapahoe Basin, CO

Solitude, UT

Mad River Glen, VT



Any others?
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Posted 24 September 2006 - 01:31 PM

View PostSkier, on Sep 24 2006, 03:00 PM, said:

What are some of the major ski areas with no detachables?



Here are some I can think of:

Taos, NM

Mount Baker, WA

Loveland. CO

Arapahoe Basin, CO

Solitude, UT

Mad River Glen, VT



Any others?






Solitude has only one detachable lift. It's Eagle Express.

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#3 Peter

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Posted 24 September 2006 - 02:44 PM

Oh yeah, oops.
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Posted 24 September 2006 - 02:50 PM

Smugglers Notch, VT
Shawnee Peak, ME


Shawnee Peak is a bit of a stretch, but it's got a fairly big market in the night skiing niche and they are building condos at the base of it. Summit lift is only a triple - 1300 ft of vertical.
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Posted 24 September 2006 - 03:15 PM

We have 2900 ft of vertical and 1585 acres of skiing with only FG lifts...
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Posted 24 September 2006 - 03:29 PM

Bridger Bowl, MT
Discovery Basin, MT
Monarch, CO

I really don't know what the acre cut off is, but all of those listed above are quite large and all biger than A-Basin I believe.
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Posted 24 September 2006 - 03:37 PM

Beaver Mountain, UT

Sundance, UT

Wolf Mountain, UT

all are small ski areas with no detachable lifts....only fixed-grip lifts.

I don't know about Brian Head, Utah. I have not been there yet.

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Posted 24 September 2006 - 04:15 PM

View PostSkiing#1, on Sep 24 2006, 07:37 PM, said:

I don't know about Brian Head, Utah. I have not been there yet.

Brian Head doesn't have any detachables
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Posted 24 September 2006 - 04:30 PM

Wolf Creek didn't have any detachables until this season.

Get this. Loveland has more acres than Killington, the biggest resort in the east.

Eldora's another one.
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Posted 25 September 2006 - 05:27 AM

Bear Valley, CA didn't have any detatchables until this season. Homewood in lake Tahoe is fairly big with no detatchables.

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Posted 25 September 2006 - 05:46 PM

What about powder mountain in utah? Aren't they at least 1500 acres and all they have is a fg quad.
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Posted 25 September 2006 - 06:12 PM

View PostKZ, on Sep 25 2006, 06:46 PM, said:

What about powder mountain in utah? Aren't they at least 1500 acres and all they have is a fg quad.


According to their webiste they have one Detachable quad - the hidden lake express.
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#13 Peter

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Posted 25 September 2006 - 07:13 PM

Yes Hidden Lake Express is being built this summer so they don't count.
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Posted 25 September 2006 - 08:33 PM

Sorry about that, I missed that one.
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Posted 26 September 2006 - 01:57 PM

Powder mountain would be the biggest if it had not installed the hsq. (5,500 acres!)
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Posted 26 September 2006 - 03:59 PM

View PostAllan, on Sep 25 2006, 08:12 PM, said:

According to their webiste they have one Detachable quad - the hidden lake express.

Prior to this Summer, they have not had any detatchable lifts. hidden Lake was a FGD
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