Ski Bowl Liftline Pitch

LiesGore marketing has implied that the new run under the skibowl liftline is the second only to Rumor in steepness. Rumor, Skibowl Liftline, and then Lies comes third? I’ll tell you one thing SkiBowl Liftline LOOKS pretty steep on the topo. But that pitch was originally a “T” Bar. How could it be that steep?

I decided to see if I could figure it out. I have a hard time with grade to degree conversion. I have no idea if these numbers are correct and I’d like to be corrected if I’m off. On the Gore website in the History Timeline they list the dimensions of the original ski bowl T-bar as 3000′ long and 830′ of vertical.

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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.

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