OKEMO GETS MORE ORANGE as a HI-SPEED QUAD JOINS the HEATED
SIX-PACK BUBBLE CHAIR, plus NEW TRAILS, SNOWMAKING and MORE
SKIER NEWS • S K I V E R M O N T ’ S B E S T
12 • VT • PA & NH • 2016 SEASON
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RFID ticketing, groomer, new South Face lift and trail, and more Jackson Gore await winter guests
LUDLOW, VT – Okemo Mountain Resort is preparing
for the winter season with more improvements. In addition to a second bubble chair at Jackson Gore, Okemo
built a new chairlift and created a new trail at South Face
Village, and added snowmaking to two trails at Jackson
Gore.
Double Bubble
Skiers and snowboarders visiting Okemo Mountain Resort this winter can view the snowy landscape through the
bright orange tint of a retractable, transparent dome when
they ride in the comfort of another new, high-speed bubble chairlift named Quantum Four. Okemo’s upgrade and
renaming of the Jackson Gore Express Quad includes the
replacement of chairs with comfortable four-passenger
bubble chairs that protect skiers and riders from wind and
weather as they ascend Okemo’s Jackson Gore summit.
This new lift makes Okemo the first resort in North America to feature multiple bubble chairlifts.
“We have always put the guest experience first,” said
Okemo Mountain Resort Owner Tim Mueller. “State-ofthe-art lifts and snowmaking are the heart of the skiing experience, so this is one more example of maintaining that
standard and keeping Okemo as the gold standard in the
industry.”
snowmaking coverage to 98 percent of its trails. In addition to 1,125 state-of-the-art energy efficient HKD tower
guns, Okemo utilizes hundreds of snowmaking guns of
varying types. It is the HKD SV series of guns, though,
that make the biggest impression on skiers and riders – allowing Okemo to open more terrain early in the season
and improving Okemo’s ability to recover more rapidly
from unfavorable weather situations throughout the season.
South Face Lift and Trail
At SouthFace Village, Okemo’s newest on-mountain
community, the Sunshine Quad, a new fixed-grip LeitnerPoma chairlift, now connects the Village Center at SouthFace Village at Okemo to the South Face Express Quad
and provides access to the new Suncatcher trail. The trio
creating SouthFace Village at Okemo includes the developer, SouthFace Village at Okemo Development Company LLC, headed by Ted Rossi; designer/builder
Bensonwood; and Okemo Mountain Resort managing
mountain operations and trail maintenance.
Okemo typically grooms about 550 acres of terrain every
night and needs a powerful and reliable fleet of machines
to do the job. The Prinoth Beast offers increased operating
width, high grooming speed, optimal power transfer and
the new Prinoth Master Blade, resulting in 40 percent
higher grooming performance and a new dimension in ski
slope preparation.
Parks and Pipe
Okemo’s partnership with Snow Park Technologies
continues this winter to enhance the Tomahawk trail for
more flow and originality with jumps and hits. The Homeward Bound terrain park was renamed to recognize the
contributions of Okemo’s first Snowboarding Program Director Gordon Robbins. This park included jumps, hits and
features that highlight and celebrate Robbins’ love for
snowboarding.
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Resorts page at www.skiernews.com
500 hp Groomer
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Okemo added another new Prinoth 500 horsepower
Beast to its fleet of top-of-the line grooming machines.
For more information, please call (802) 228-1600, or
visit www.okemo.com
Real.Easy Card
RFID Ticketing
Skiers and riders visiting Okemo Mountain
Resort will no longer
have to fumble with
gloves, zippers and lanyards in search of lift
tickets and season passes
prior to loading a lift.
With
their
Okemo
Real.Easy Card, they can
glide through special
gates equipped with
RFID readers that scan
radio-frequencyidentification-enabled
cards, which can be
stowed safely inside
jackets or pants pockets.
This technology makes
the cumbersome visual
checking of lift tickets
and season passes a thing
of the past. In addition,
after an initial visit to the
ticket window to purchase a Real.Easy Card,
skiers and riders can go
direct-to-lift on subsequent visits; they simply
go online to load new
products like lift tickets
and even resort credit
onto their card prior to
visiting.
Snowmaking on
White Lightning and
Rolling Thunder
After two years of
major snowmaking improvements totaling more
than $1 million, Okemo
expanded its snowmaking system for a third
year in a row with the introduction of two snowmaking trails White
Lightning and Rolling
Thunder at Jackson Gore.
This snowmaking installation increases Okemo’s
ORANGE UP
to ENJOY
THE SNOW
and
MAKE TIME
to GO.
BE AWARE
SKI with
CARE
and
KNOW the
CODE
we’re taking
aking
ORANGE
in a new direction
direction
UP
QUANTUM FOUR
SUNBURST SIX
REAL. EASY CARDS
SOUTHFACE
NEW HIGH SPEED QUAD
WITH ORANGE
ORANGE BUBBLE!
ORANGE BUBBLE LIFT
WITH SIX HEATED
HEATED SEATS!
SEATS!
EASY TO LOAD RFID CARDS
LIFTT ACCESS!
FOR USE AS LIF
ACCESS!
NEW TRAIL AND
LIFT!
NEW LIF
T!
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a calendar of all the exciting events happening at Okemo Mountain Resort.
Resort.