NORTHSTAR-AT-TAHOE™
RESORT INCREASES ACCESS TO ADVANCED TERRAIN WITH INSTALLATION OF NEW
CHAIRLIFT
BROADCAST
QUALITY MPEG 2 B-ROLL FOOTAGE - Available after 3:00pm PDT,
Sept 16, 2008.
STORY
SUMMARY: (TRUCKEE, California) – Today, Northstar-at-Tahoe
Resort got closer to its goal of providing skiers and riders with access
to even more advanced terrain in the Lookout® Mountain area of the
resort. As part of the more than $13 million in on-mountain improvements
Northstar Resort invested this summer that will benefit skiers and riders
during the 2008-09 winter season, this morning, a helicopter assisted
the Dopplemayr crew with the installation of the new lift towers for
the Martis Camp Express chairlift.
FOOTAGE
INCLUDES: Current footage of helicopters assembling lift towers,
shot Sept 16, plus B-roll of recent trail work and new ski runs.
SUPPORTING
COPY: Today, Northstar-at-Tahoe Resort got closer to its goal
of providing skiers and riders with access to even more advanced terrain
in the Lookout® Mountain area of the resort. As part of the more
than $13 million in on-mountain improvements Northstar Resort invested
this summer that will benefit skiers and riders during the 2008-09 winter
season, this morning, a helicopter assisted the Dopplemayr crew with
the installation of the new lift towers for the Martis Camp Express
chairlift.
The new
Martis Camp Express lift (formerly Lookout Express) is a high-speed
quad lift located inside the Martis Camp development, at the base of
Northstar Resort’s Lookout Mountain. The lift line was increased
from 2,822 lineal feet to 5,128 lineal feet, with an increase in vertical
drop from 1,247 feet to 1,722 feet, and will allow skiers and riders
to reach the top of the mountain in a mere six minutes. This unique
amenity will allow Martis Camp property owners direct access from their
homes to Northstar Resort, and will create new skiing and riding terrain
for all Northstar Resort skiers and riders.
Three
existing advanced ski trails on Lookout Mountain were also extended
into Martis Camp: Prosser, Stampede and Martis, with snowmaking extended
on Prosser and Martis. To the east of these trails, a new intermediate
trail named Washoe has been added, will also terminate at the base of
the Martis Camp Express lift, and features top to bottom snowmaking,
allowing the Lookout Mountain area of the resort to be open earlier
than ever before.
In preparation
for the upcoming season, Northstar Resort has performed tree-thinning
work on Lookout Mountain, The Backside, Mount Pluto and in the Northwest
Territory of the resort in an effort to provide for an enhanced glade
skiing experience. Trees logged from these areas are being reused, with
logs big enough to go to a lumber mill being sent to make lumber. Smaller
trees and slash are also being reused, with 70 percent being chipped
and used on-site for erosion control, and the remaining 30 percent going
to a co-gen plant in nearby Loyalton, CA. The thinning work has allowed
for five new gladed tree skiing trails to be added: The Camp Glade,
Sugar Pine Glade, Monument Glade, Comstock Glade and Rendezvous Glade.
All are rated black diamond and will add to Northstar Resort’s
incredible tree skiing reputation. These additions bring Northstar Resort’s
total trail count to 89.
The Martis
Camp Express chairlift is slated to open in December 2008. For more
information on all of Northstar Resort’s mountain improvements,
visit www.NorthstarAtTahoe.com.
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SOUNDBITE:
- Jessica VanPernis, Northstar-at-Tahoe Spokesperson
LOCATORS:
- Northstar-at-Tahoe Resort, Truckee, CA.
Footage
provided by:
Northstar-at-Tahoe
Contact: Jessica VanPernis, 530.562.3866
Kirstin Cattell, 530.543.3132
tahoepr@boothcreek.com
