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The Expansion Blog
Big Expansion at Jay Peak
Excerpted from WPTZ.com in Burlington: JAY, Vt. — The normally quiet off-season at the Jay Peak Ski Resort this summer is anything but, as 200 construction workers — almost all from the local area — race to complete a new $20 million base lodge and hotel in time for the upcoming winter. Jay Peak, which opened in 1955, sits near the Canadian border in Vermont’s Orleans County, an area with one of the state’s highest unemployment rates.
But resort owner Bill Stenger hopes his multi-year resort expansion project will help change that. Gov. Jim Douglas joined Stenger and scores of contractors and local leaders for a groundbreaking Wednesday afternoon marking the start of phase two of the expansion.
Burnt Ridge Mountain
I wanted to see how hard it really was to get over to Burnt Ridge Mountain. I did the now well-known routine: Twister to Twister Glade to Echo and Gully, then bomb it.
I counted my skating strokes. Twenty to get over the first rise and 20 to get over the second. I think I had 5 double polls too. I put another 20 skates in on the way down to the chair…but it wasn’t mandatory. 40 skate strokes and I was there.
And it turns out coming back is really easy. Hedges, into the trees and up the North. No skating at all if you find the right spot.
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