Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Contents. Winter Park Resort. 3,060 feet (933 m) 9,000 feet (2,743 m) Winter Park Resort is an alpine ski resort in the western United States, in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado at Winter Park. Located in Grand County just off U.S. Highway 40, the resort is about a ninety-minute drive from Denver.
The first form of summer toboggan was the alpine slide, which started in its present form in the 1970s. Josef Wiegand had envisioned the idea of creating a roller coaster ride for ski resorts that would take advantage of the topography of the land, rather than building a structure to create the elevation changes that traditional roller coasters required.
The longest alpine slide in Switzerland: 1,350 metres (4,430 ft) long, elevation 1,400 metres (4,600 ft). ... Winter Park Resort: Winter Park CO: Slide Wisp Resort ...
Left to right, top to bottom: bobsleigh, curling, figure skating, ice hockey, skiing, and snowboarding. Winter sports or winter activities are competitive sports or non-competitive recreational activities which are played on snow or ice. [1] Most are variations of skiing, ice skating and sledding. Traditionally, such games were only played in ...
1. George Larsson Jr. (19) Year of accident: 1980 Disaster first struck Action Park on the Alpine Slide. After riding the terrifying chair lift to the top of the mountain, you'd be sent flying ...
www.bluemountain.ca. Blue Mountain is an alpine ski resort in Ontario, Canada, 10 km west of Collingwood. It is situated on a section of the Niagara Escarpment about 1 km (0.6 mi.) from Nottawasaga Bay, and is a major destination for skiers from southern Ontario. The local area forms the newly incorporated town of The Blue Mountains, Ontario.
1972 NCAA Skiing Championships. The 1972 NCAA Skiing Championships were contested in Winter Park, Colorado at the nineteenth annual NCAA-sanctioned ski tournament to determine the individual and team national champions of men's collegiate alpine, cross country skiing, and ski jumping in the United States. [1]
Snowboarding in Valfréjus, France Snowboarder riding off of a cornice Freeride snowboarding, in areas off of the main trails. The first snowboards were developed in 1965 when Sherm Poppen, an engineer in Muskegon, Michigan, invented a toy for his daughters by fastening two skis together and attaching a rope to one end so he would have some control as they stood on the board and glided downhill.