New at Colorado Ski Areas for 2009-10 Season

, | dlacord | Friday, September 11th, 2009 at 8:03 am

What’s new at Colorado’s ski resorts this season? Here’s the news from Colorado Ski Country, the trade association for 22 of the state’s resorts:

  • Aspen Skiing Company is introducing a 100-percent hands-free radio-frequency gate access program across its four mountains. Lift tickets are plastic cards with a chip inside detecting guests as they move seamlessly through lift lines.
  • Crested Butte has added a new base area, Adventure Park, with a synthetic “ice” skating rink, bungee trampolines and a climbing wall.
  • Echo Mountain is launching new Ski & Ride school programs this year, with several multi-week programs for kids ages 4-14 and their parents. Night series programs are also planned for specific skier types.
  • At Loveland, the Love Park terrain park will get more new features.
  • Monarch has added high-end skis and boards to its demo fleet, and has brought in some beginner-specific boots. On the mountain, tree islands have been removed on Mirage, Turbo, Snowburn and Short & Sweet runs.
  • Silverton Mountain has purchased an Astar B3 helicopter for mountain operations.
  • Ski Cooper has enhanced its rental fleet and added another Snow cat to its Chicago Ridge program, allowing the resort to offer sightseeing excursions for non-skiers and riders.
  • Steamboat has opened a new Ski & Snowboard School ticket office and patrol first-aid base facility.
  • Telluride has added more terrain for expert skiers with the opening of Chutes 2-5, offering wide-open above-tree line couloirs and chutes dropping 1,600 vertical feet.
  • Wolf Creek is opening the new Raven’s Nest day lodge, mid-mountain on top of the Raven chairlift.

Deb Acord

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