Added: 12/12/2005 |
Ski Resort Weekends: Adventure And RelaxationWhat else can bring more fun and joy in winter than ski resort weekends? Especially when there are so many absolutely marvelous resorts scattered throughout the world. All of them are situated in incredibly beautiful places, with stunning landscape, modern equipment and loads of entertainments (apart from skiing, of course). It is not necessary to go far for an example. One such resort where you can spend your ski resort weekends is located in the town of Killington, Vermont, USA.
Killington is famous for its high-tech resorts, that have been a real adventure and challenge for experienced skiers since the early sixties of the twentieth century. Sometimes the tourist population reaches 60,000 on a winter weekend and there can be about 17,000 skiers sliding from the slopes of the Green Mountains at a time. The Vermont's Green Mountains belong to the Greater Appalachian Mountain Range. The main peaks Killington and Pico are of about five hundred million years, that means that they are much older than most of the mountains on our planet, including the Alps, Andes and Himalayas. Thus, they are not as high as they used to be, they are worn by climatic changes and erosion and throughout the time they have become nicely rounded and green. The height of the Killington Peak is as much as 4,241 feet, the second highest summit of the Green Mountains in Vermont. The summit itself is located in Rutland, which is the south-central part of Vermont.
The evolution of the Killington settlement proved to be an opposite example; the city was growing almost all the time (with some exceptions when the economics of the region wasn't supported by the tourism business). For example, around 1880 Vermont population decreased by fifty four percent and continued to drop until about 1960 (just imagine, the population of the present Killington (Sherburne at that time) was as low as 266 residents! It can't be compared with the smallest village!)
December, 13, 1958 was a memorable date - that day the Killington Ski Area was opened and that day was the starting point for great changes. The depressing area has become a prosperous place and an enormous economic resource. The owner of the Killington Ski Area is the American Skiing Company (one of the largest skiing conglomerates in the world, it owns nine largest skiing resorts in the USA, including three Vermont's resorts: Killington, Mount Snow and Sugarbush Ski Resort). The company invests a lot in order to make the region more and more attractive to tourists. The skiers' Mecca is now boasting lots of fashionable hotels, condo complexes, inns (more than a hundred of them), and lodges, thus you can see that it is not a problem at all to find suitable accommodation for a period of your ski resort weekends. All the possible and even impossible equipment for professional as well as for amateur skiing can be found here. And a special gondola transports everybody (those who are to ski and those who are not) to the summit, where a food resort waits for them - the restaurant at the very peak that can also add some points in favour of Killington for your ski resort weekends.
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