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‘A convenient quirk of nature provides an almost ‘Camelot’ experience with snow falling mostly at night creating a fresh dry champagne powder cover’ Vail & Beaver Creek opens 19th November VAIL - a magnificent mountain in the heart of the Rockies, the BIGGEST ski mountain in the United States. It is so big that its seven back bowls are more than six miles wide!
Experience the vast front bowls and wide open trails and tree lined slopes. Once you have found your ski-legs on the best groomed trails in the world, prepare to lose them again in the famous back bowls of Vail and Beaver Creek which are mostly open, steep, deep, wild and un-groomed.
Vail is the largest ski mountain in USA with no less than 7 powder bowls - add Beaver Creek and Arrowhead and you know this is it! The Vail Valley is around 13 miles long - from East Vail to Vail Village, Lionshead, to Avon and Beaver Creek then Arrowhead and Edwards at the West end of the Valley. Beaver Creek and Arrowhead offer the first village to village skiing in the USA. A long reliable season, starting in November take advantage of the incredible early season offers The Vail Ski Pass also includes Beaver Creek, Arrowhead, Breckenridge, Keystone and Arapahoe Basin |
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Vail and Beaver Creek Resorts |
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Vail Skiing Factoids (Vail Only)
Summit 11,570 ft./3,527 m Base 8,120 ft./2,475 m Vertical 3,450 ft Number Lifts 34 Total skiable acres 5,289 No of Trails 193 Longest run Riva, 4 miles Expert/Most Difficult 40% Intermediate/More Difficult 32% Beginner/Easiest 28%
Uphill Capacity per hour 25,939 |
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Contact us Tel/Fax +44 (0)161 902 9633 Ski Wildfire Ltd. ,Manchester UK M22 4WP |
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Both - Vail & BC Trails: 239 Half pipes: 3 Summit: 11477 ft Top lift: 11477 ft Beginners: 28% Intermediate: 45%) Advanced 27%. Lifts: 46 Total Uphill capacity 53,381 per hour |
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Vail and Beaver Creek resorts |