Sun Valley Ski Areas

Bald Mountain  
Bald Mountain is a ski mountain located in Sun Valley, Idaho, USA. It is the main ski area of the Sun Valley resort. It is 3400 feet (1036 m) vertically from top to bottom.

There are 19 ski lifts (7 Quads, 4 Triples, 5 Doubles, 3 Surface, and an uphill capacity of 26,780 people (per skier, Sun Valley has more uphill capacity than any other ski area). It has 75 runs with 2054 acres (8.3 km²) of on piste skiing, 645 acres (2.6 km²) of which have artificial snow.

Dollar Mountain
Dollar Mountain is a part of the Sun Valley, Idaho ski area and is a mountain that caters primarily to beginner and lower intermediate skiers. The other mountain that compromises the Sun Valley, Idaho ski area is called Bald Mountain.

Dollar Mountain is served by four chairlifts called Dollar, Half Dollar, Quarter Dollar and Elkhorn. All of these are double chairlifts except for the Elkhorn lift, which is a triple that is separated from the other three. The base of the Elkhorn lift is at Elkhorn Village. A magic carpet is also available for first-time skiers, as well as a tubing hill.

The Half Dollar chairlift serves a terrain park for snowboarders. Dollar Mountain consists of trails that are gentler in pitch and shorter in length compared to the trails at Bald Mountain, Idaho. The vertical rise is 628 feet. A new day lodge at the base of Dollar was constructed and completed prior to the 2004-2005 ski season and is comparable in spaciousness and style to the day lodges at Bald Mountain.

See Also
Sun Valley 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Uses material from the articles Bald_Mountain, Idaho and Dollar mountain.