Two New Ski Resorts In One Week
Two New Ski Resorts In One Week
Published : 30-Nov-2009 12:36
Following the opening of Mongolia's first proper ski resort on Wednesday, South Korea's latest centre opened on Friday in Gangwon province, the region's 10th ski area.Alpensia ski resort will be transformed into PyeongChang's Winter Olympic Park if the Korean's, who were second in the bidding to host the 2014 Games, win their bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics.
The new resort has opened with 7 slopes, five for skiing and one a dedicated snowboarding terrain park and one designed for sledging., in total including a snowboard dedicated one and another snow sledding dedicate one. There are more than 5km of runs descending from a top station at 700 meters above sea level.
However the centre is primarily the main national based for Olympic standard facilities for other snow sports including ski jumping, biathlon and Cross country.
Alpensia has three high capacity chair lifts, two six-seaters and a quad, and can accommodate up to 3,000 people at any one time on the slopes. There's a beginner run, four intermediate trails, and one black run named Fox-trot.
The resort complex also includes an Intercontinental Hotel, several golf courses and an indoor water park.
http://www.alpensia.com/
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