Wachusett Mountain Ski Resort
Massachusetts, USA
| Resort Statistics | | vertical drop: | 1,000 feet | | summit: | 2,006 feet | | base: | 990 feet | | lifts: | 5 | | trails: | 20 | | longest run: | 7,050 feet |
Snowboarding | | permitted: | Yes | | terrain park: | Yes | | half-pipe: | Yes | | | Snow and Terrain | | annual snowfall: | 100 inches | | snowmaking: | 100% | | skiable area: | 105 acres | | easiest: | 30% | | more difficult: | 40% | | most difficult: | 30% |
Other Activities | | x-country: | 11 km | | snow tubing: | No |
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Youth Enrichment Services Partnering With Wachusett Mountain To Hold 2008 Massachusetts Snow Challenge on March 15, 2008
March 03, 2008 - BOSTON----Youth Enrichment Services , a non-profit that offers low- and moderate-income Boston area kids outdoor and practical learning activities, today announced the 2008 Massachusetts Snow Challenge to be held at Wachusett Mountain ski resort on March 15, 2008.
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Youth Enrichment Services Partnering With Wachusett Mountain To Hold 2007 Massachusetts Snow Challenge on March 17, 2007
February 28, 2007 - BOSTON----Youth Enrichment Service , a non-profit that offers low- and moderate-income Boston area kids outdoor and practical learning activities, today announced the 2007 Massachusetts Snow Challenge to be held at Wachusett Mountain ski resort on March 17, 2007.
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Nashoba
student is killed in Maine skiing accident
April 30, 2005 - Bolton Common, MA - When
Alison Murphy turned 17, her friends at Nashoba Regional High School
wanted to do something special. So they called Jennifer Amero, her boss
at Wachusett Mountain in Princeton, and conspired to smuggle a cake...
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New
ski trails almost complete
August 17, 2004 - Holden Landmark, MA -Work on the new ski trails at Wachusett
Mountain ski area is about 90 percent complete, according to Timothy
McGuire, environmental engineer for Wachusett Mountain Associates,
operators of the ski facility. In September 2003, WMA cleared about
eight acres for an Alpine Park that includes two new ski trails for
snowboarding and ski racing. The first phase of the trail work was
completed last year but the new lift wasn?t installed.
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Skiing
Death in Massachusetts
January 09, 2004 - WLNE-TV (ABC6), RI - 18 year old Rebecca Doane of
Hubbardston had skied Wachusett Mountain several times. But on Wednesday
night she died after losing control hitting another skier and striking a
tree. Rebecca was not wearing a helmet. Witnesses say Rebecca may have
been skiing too fast, which is a common cause of deadly ski crashes.
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Wachusett
ski employee injured on slopes
December 28, 2003 - New Haven Register, CT - PRINCETON, Mass. ? A ski
resort employee fell and injured himself on the slopes and was flown to
a nearby hospital for head injuries. The accident occurred Saturday
evening at the Wachusett Mountain Ski Area, said the resort?s
spokesman Jeff Crowley. Crowley said the male employee apparently
swerved as he skied along the trail.
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Wachusett
Mountain open to skiers today
December 04, 2003 - Fitchburg Sentinel, MA - PRINCETON -- Wachusett Mountain
Ski Area opens to skiers and snowboarders today, a week after its
traditional day-after-Thanksgiving opening. James "Jeff"
Crowley, Wachusett Mountain Associates president, said he expects about
200 eager customers to visit the ski area, since mid-week openings are
slower than weekends.
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Mass
Audubon concerned about ski trail work
November 07, 2003 - Holden Landmark, MA - Disagreement arose last week at the
meeting of the Wachusett Mountain Advisory Council over the clearing of
new ski trails. Wachusett Mountain Associates environmental engineer
Timothy McGuire and Susan Manero, chairman of the Wachusett Mountain
Monitoring Board, said construction work done on two ski trails met
state and local requirements.
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Opponents
'disappointed' at tree cutting
October 31, 2003 - Fitchburg Sentinel, MA - PRINCETON -- Local residents
disagreed with ski area operators' report that construction on the new
ski trails was following agreed-upon environmental rules at Wednesday's
meeting of the Wachusett Mountain Advisory Council. The trees are
cleared and the site complies with all government-imposed environmental
regulations, said Timothy McGuire, an environmental engineer and the
project manager for the Wachusett Mountain Ski Area. He also said the
trails could be used for skiing this winter.
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A
last stand in the treetops
September 16, 2003 - Boston Globe, MA - A pair of protesters who have lived
atop trees on Wachusett Mountain for six weeks watched helplessly
yesterday as loggers began cutting down nearly 2,000 northern red oaks
around them to make way for two court-approved ski trails that they have
been fighting.
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