Jay Peak

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Jay Peak Resort
Nearest city: Jay, Vermont
Coordinates: 44°55′46″N, 72°31′56″W
Top elevation: 1,209 m
Base elevation: 553 m
Skiable area: 385 acres
Runs: >75
Longest run: 4.828 km
Lift system: 8 (1 Aerial tramway, 5 chairs, 2 surface lifts)
Snow fall: 9.02 m/year
Web page: Jay Peak Resort

Jay Peak Resort is an American ski resort located outside the small town of Jay, Vermont in the Green Mountains. The resort is just south of the border with the Canadian province of Quebec, and because of this, has historically accepted Canadian money at par to encourage Canadian visitors, though this is now only true for lift tickets. Jay Peak is owned and operated by Mont Saint-Sauveur International, a Canadian owned ski resort operator.

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[edit] History

The ski trails were carved into the mountain during the 1950s primarily by its first ski school director/general manager, Walter Foeger, an Austrian and former racer who had previously trained the Spanish olympic ski team. He developed a method of teaching parallel skiing that avoided first having to teach the student snowplow/stem turns. Instead, the student was taught to change direction by means of a slight hop keeping the tips of the skis on the snow, and displacing the back of the skis sideways. He called his ski teaching method "Natur Teknik" (natural technique). The Jay Peak ski school offered a "learn to ski in a week" guarantee. The method was remarkably successful and was later adopted by a number of other ski areas.

[edit] Trails

Well-known for its Off-piste skiing, Jay Peak offers 24 tree-skiing areas, or Glades, covering approximately 100 acres, which have been trimmed of small vegetation to provide enjoyable off-piste skiing. Jay has 76 trails covering 385 acres of skiable terrain.

[edit] Snowfall

The summit is at an elevation of 3,968 feet (1,209 m), with a 2,153 foot (656 m) vertical rise. Jay Peak enjoys the largest average annual snowfall (357 inches or 9 metres) of any ski area in northeastern North America, with the possible exception of Mount Washington (which has no ski lifts).

[edit] Lift Capacity

Jay Peak is currently serviced by 8 lifts, comprised of 1 aerial tramway, 5 chairlifts, 1 t-bar and 1magic carpet. These lifts give the mountain an uphill capacity of approximately 12,000 skiers/hour. The oldest of these lifts, the aerial tramway, also known as the "tram", and is the only one of its type in the state of Vermont. This tramway was originally installed in 1966 by Von Roll, and upgraded in 2000 with new cabins from Swoboda.

In the mid 1980s Jay peak began to upgrade their lift capacity. In 1985 they purchased the Jet Triple chair from Doppelmayr to replace the Jet T-Bar. This was followed in 1987 with the purchase of the Bonaventure Quad which replaced the old Bonaventure Double. In 1999 Jay removed the Green Mountain Double chair, which had serviced the north side of the mountain for 30 years, and replaced it with the Green Mountain Flyer(dubbed the "Green Mountain Freezer" by locals because of its notoriously cold ride), the mountain's first high-speed detachable chairlift.

Other lifts that currently serve the mountain are the Metro Quad, the Village Double, the Queen's Highway T-Bar and the Magic Carpet.

[edit] External links

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