North America’s Biggest Vertical Opening Today
North America’s Biggest Vertical Opening Today
Published : 10-Dec-2010 08:10
The biggest lift-served vertical in North America, since Revelstoke took the coveted title from Whistler two seasons ago, opens today when the new resort in British Columbia opens up its full top-to-bottom skiing potential for the first time this winter.The storm cycles are building up over the Aleutian Islands in the Pacific Ocean which is good news for West coast North America, parts of which have already received three metres of snow this winter. The storm picks up moisture and mixes with cold air moving south resulting in heavy snow.
As a result skiers and boarders will be skiing the full 5,620 vertical feet, the most continuous lift-serviced vertical in North and South America. At the same time skiable terrain will double with the opening of the Ripper Area.
Grooming for The Ripper Area was completed before the snow began to fall earlier this week which means classic powder has been building up here over the past 48 hours.
"This area is expected to be a hot spot over the weekend. You can anticipate knee-deep, untracked powder. The Ripper Chair will open as soon as there is clearance from avalanche control but in the wider area the avalanche risk is listed as considerable therefore Greely Bowl continues to remain outside of the ski area boundary." said Revelstoke's VP/COO Rod Kessler, adding,
"Our mountain operations team have become quite accomplished at ensuring our openings are deep and untracked and this weekend is shaping up to be another spectacular experience in the Selkirk Mountains. You don't want to miss out on what's become some of the best early season powder-laden terrain in the world. It's not just the quantity of the snow, it's the quality. The snow dries out across the desert of Interior BC and builds up across the Monashee Mountains to dump in the Selkirks."
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