Copper Mountain Upgrade/Expansion Plans

[ChrisC]

Usually, I do not post these types of updates, but I liked what I saw at Copper Mt: potentially a lot of great new alpine terrain! Including the backside of Tucker Mt.

Master Plan Outlines Extensive Lift Upgrades at Copper Mountain

One of outgoing White River National Forest Supervisor Scott Fitzwilliams’ final actions last week was accepting a new master plan for Copper Mountain, one of eleven ski areas he oversaw for …

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[EMSC]

It'll be interesting to see if any of these new areas get built. Copper historically replaces lifts but takes forever to open new terrain. Example being the 20+ years to build a lift on Tucker mtn after being in the planning documents. Would love to see the Jacque peak lift get built, but definitely not holding my breath. Could be some iconic terrain in Colo. Best part of this is Copper has over 8K acres already in their SUP boundary and all of this is within that.

 

[Tony Crocker]

I know Jacque Peak is really high but the chair alignment looks like the terrain faces slightly south of east. Tucker is north facing and sadly we missed out on it because 80-90mph wind gusts closed it just before we got there at 12:15 yesterday. We may try again Friday. FYI if EMSC is around, we expect to be skiing A-Basin Thursday.

 

[MarzNC]

Wonder if the timing for expansion plans for Copper are at all related to Powdr selling off Killington, Eldora, and Bachelor?

 

[EMSC]

Wonder if the timing for expansion plans for Copper are at all related to Powdr selling off Killington, Eldora, and Bachelor?

Not that I'm aware of. The kids of Powdr Corp owner are just not as interested in skiing or building a ski empire as their dad. So he's selling off a decent chunk of the portfolio in order to do things that are more in the kids line of interest. Things like adventure camps, national park concessionaire contracts, etc... It'll be a more diversified portfolio and I'll be interested to see, but looks like they are keeping the biggest couple of ski places in the fold (for now). I've heard that no sale announcement is expected for Eldora until at least early May for whatever that is worth. Sale is being conducted at Corp HQ in Park City. Local mgmt (maybe the GM is kept in the loop) generally not being told anything at all other than business as usual for now.