,Summit Daily
DILLON – shed light on Keystone Resortap plans to bring an unprecedented lift-served terrain expansion for beginner and intermediate skiers and snowboarders above the resortap tree line.
If and when the Forest Service approves Keystone’s plan for a detachable-quad lift serving 555 acres in its Bergman and Erickson bowl terrain, skiers and snowboarders would be able to ride two beginner trails and a web of intermediate trails down from above tree line in Bergman Bowl. The beginner and intermediate terrain then would go through trees to the new liftap base and existing intermediate terrain on North Peak.
The collection of new trails would be located on the moderately slopped Bergman Bowl terrain that, since its opening in 2003, was previously accessible only by paid snow cat or hiking. The old cat track would be the location of the primary green beginner run.
Keystone’s plans are reminiscent of sister Vail Resorts property Breckenridge Ski Resortap lift-served expansion less than a decade ago to the above-timberline terrain of Peak 6 on the Tenmile Range, where intermediate skiers and riders can often hit groomed runs for a high-Alpine experience more traditionally reserved for advanced skiers and riders.
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