Posted: Thursday, December 20, 2007
New Trails and Village at Snowshoe
Sawmill, one of three new trails in the South Mountain area, is set to open Friday
A 10am ceremony will include a ribbon cutting with Snowshoe Mountain President and COO Bill Rock, Sawmill Village Project Architect and Developer Tom Tretheway and Ed Galford, VP of Mountain Operations for Snowshoe Mountain, who served as the trails' designer.
The trail is marked for expert skiers, and is a long, challenging run, similar to Widowmaker, a long-time favorite of Snowshoe regulars. Sawmill measures 2790' and has a vertical drop of 630'. The trail will be serviced by the Soaring Eagle lift, a high-speed quad the mountain added last season.
Sawmill is one of three new trails that were added to the South Mountain area this summer. Sawmill Glades and Camp 99, the two additional trails, will open as weather and snowmaking permit. The trails were a cooperative venture with Snowshoe's new Sawmill Village neighborhood. Sawmill Village's developers invested nearly one million dollars for the construction of the three new trails, which will provide ski-in/ski-out access to the gated community.
"We feel that it is critical to provide our home owners an experience that warrants their desire to build custom home packages at the top of Snowshoe Mountain Resort," says Tom Tretheway. "By forming the partnership, we feel our development will continue to grow along side of Snowshoe and everyone will benefit in terms of increased resort infrastructure, such as trails, snowmaking, lifts and events."
For more information on the region's best winter resort, please visit www.snowshoemtn.com. To check out what's new on the mountain this year, visit our new supplemental site at www.snowshoemtn.com/expansion.