SNOW BIKING, IMPROVED LIFTS NEW THIS SKI SEASON.Byline: Daily News What's new in ski territory? Here are some innovations for the 1996-97 season: California: The South Tahoe Ice Center, offering public skating daily year-round, opens Nov. 22 at the South Lake Tahoe Recreation Complex, 1180 Rufus Allen Blvd. Information: (916) 542-4700. Tahoe's Lake Lapper shuttle bus transports skiers and snowboarders to any of six local resorts on the north and south lake shore for $5 a day; the buses run 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily. Alpine Meadows The term Alpine Meadows may refer to:
Colorado: Keystone offers snowboarding for the first time this season. Copper Mountain has added a new chairlift; Loveland has a new fixed-grip quad lift; Winter Park has a new high-speed, fixed-grip quad lift; Park City has a new six-passenger, high-speed, detachable chairlift A detachable chairlift or high-speed chairlift is a type of passenger aerial lift, which, like a fixed-grip chairlift, consists of numerous chairs attached to a constantly moving wire rope (called a haul rope ; Steamboat steamboat: see steamship. steamboat or steamship Watercraft propelled by steam; more narrowly, a shallow-draft paddle-wheel steamboat widely used on rivers in the 19th century, particularly the Mississippi River and its tributaries. has new lifts, trails and two new snowboard parks; Telluride Telluride (tĕl`yərīd), town (1990 pop. 1,309), seat of San Miguel co., SW Colo., on the San Miguel River in the San Juan Mts., inc. 1887. has a new three-stage gondola that transports skiers between the town and Mountain Village. Silver Creek Silver Creek can refer to: Places
Butte (by  t), city (1990 pop. 33,336), seat of Silver Bow co., SW Mont.; inc. 1879. It is a trade, ranching, and industrial center. ski area. New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). : Angel Fire north of Santa Fe has the state's first high-speed detachable quad lift, replacing two triple chairs, covering 2,050 feet of vertical rise. At Ski Apache in Ruidoso, a fixed-grip C-Tech quad lift replaces an older double chair. Oregon: Mount Bachelor will open 10 new runs on 458 new acres of steep skiing and snowboarding terrain, serviced by the new 8,048-foot-long Northwest Express quad chairlift that opens Jan. 31. Utah: Park City ski area opens its mountain to snowboarding for the first time this year; snowboard rental facilities and snowboarding lessons are available. The resort also has added a new six-passenger, high-speed detachable chairlift, and has opened an additional 200 acres of ski trails. Wyoming: Jackson Hole has a new high-speed, detachable quad chairlift. |
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