A ski area is a place where one goes to participate in the sports of skiing and snowboarding. Normally located in high mountain areas (or at least on well-built-up hills) for optimum snow coverage, they have become ubiquitous in areas where skiing is a popular pastime. Ski areas typically have one or more chair lifts for moving skiers rapidly to the top of hills. Rope tows can also be used on short slopes (usually beginner hills or "bunny slopes").
A ski resort is a ski area, but with a village and/or high-end accommodations and other amenities at the base of the mountain.
EUGENE, Ore. — Two people who have already admitted to helping set fire to a Vail, Colo., skiresort in 1998 as part of an Earth Liberation Front campaign formally pleaded guilty Thursday to the federal arson charges.
Chelsea Dawn Gerlach and Stanislas Gregory Meyerhoff, both 29, had already pleaded guilty to some of the arsons totaling $20 million in damage committed between 1996 and 2001 by a Eugene-based cell of the Earth Liberation Front known as the Family.
Feeds |
Contact