Appalachian Ski Mtn

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The French Swiss Ski College at Appalachian Ski Mtn. has taught over 1 million people to ski & ride.

Appalachian was the first ski area south of the Potomac to offer night skiing (1964).

Appalachian Ski Mtn. has the greatest snowmaking capacity per acre in the Southeast Region.

Appalachian strives to avoid snowmaking during skiing hours as much as possible.

For 2010-11, Appalachian Ski Mtn. is scheduled to ski through Sunday, March 27, 2011.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. has skied through its scheduled closing day for the last 10 consecutive years. (The earliest scheduled closing has been the 4th Sunday in March.)

Appalachian Ski Mtn. can convert almost 49 million pounds of water to snow in a 24 hour period in outstanding snowmaking weather.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. has the only Burton Progression Park south of Maryland.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. is one of 15 ski areas throughout North America, Europe, and Asia selected by Burton Snowboards to offer a Burton Progression Park.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. is the only resort in the Southeast to offer the Burton "Blunt" snowboard as a park performance rental snowboard.

Burton is the leading snowboard manufacturer in the world, with more than double the market share of any other snowboard manufacturer.

Appalachian has a 2500 sq ft clothing rental center with jacket, bib, glove, goggle, and helmet rentals.

Appalachian's Restaurant offers homemade specials every day such as fresh filet of salmon, brown sugar- rubbed spare ribs, and curried shrimp with pumpkin risotto.

Midnight Blast Weekends at Appalachian Ski Mtn. are offered every Friday and Saturday night from January 1st through February 26th. and also nightly from December 26th-30th.

Appalachian Ski Mtn.'s Midnight Blast Weekends are the only late-night skiing sessions in the Southeast region.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. is the only resort in North Carolina that offers an all nights-only season pass.

In many seasons, Appalachian Ski Mtn. has made snow on the day before its scheduled closing day.

In 2008-09, Appalachian had both terrain parks open by its 3rd day of skiing

Appalachian will start making snow the first substantial cold spell after October 31st.

Appalachian has opened during the week prior to Thanksgiving for seven of the last eight years.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. has reinvested over 3 million dollars in snowmaking and other improvements over the last 3 years.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. is the closest ski area in the Southeast to Charlotte, NC. (79 linear miles according to Google Earth)

Appalachian Ski Mtn. usually grooms all of its slopes every day.

Appalachian rebuilds one of its terrain parks at least every other week.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. is the only ski area in the Southeast that has automatic load gates on each of its chairlifts.

The Appalachian Ski Patrol requires a volunteer commitment of 12 days per patroller per season.

In 2008, Appalachian Ski Patrol Director Joe Donadio was the National Ski Patrol Representative of the Year.

In 2008, Appalachian Ski Patroller Chris Martin was the National Pro Patroller of the Year.

French Swiss Ski College President Jim Cottrell has been the director of the ski school since the first Nixon administration (1969), and was once a bandit at Tweetsie Railroad.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. General Manager Brad Moretz learned to ski on wooden skis with screwed-in metal edges, cable bindings, and lace-up boots on a rope-tow at ASM.

Appalachian Ski Mtn.'s switchboard is answered by a live person 24 hours a day during ski season.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. employs approximately 300 people during ski season. The French Swiss Ski College employs an additional 90 people.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. has been owned and managed by the Moretz family for the past 24 years.

Every Appalachian Ski Mtn. staff member is interviewed and individually selected by one of Appalachian's owners.

55 to 65 percent of Appalachian Ski Mtn.'s staff returns each season.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. has 10 to 15 applicants for each new staff member hired.

Every staff member at Appalachian Ski Mtn. is paid more than the federal minimum wage.

Appalachian now offers a high performance twin-tip rental.

RED - snowboard specific helmets - can be rented in Appalachian's rental shop.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. is the only ski area in the Southeast region that advertises terrain park instruction.

Appalachian Ski Mtn.'s lodge has had free wireless internet for the past 4 years.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. is within a 10 mile drive to over 50 restaurants, more than any other ski area in the Eastern United States.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. opened as Blowing Rock Ski Lodge in 1962.

In 1962, only one Motel in Blowing Rock stayed open during the winter.

In 2008, 35 businesses in the Blowing Rock Area sold lodging during the winter. Only two Blowing Rock lodging businesses were closed during the 2008-09 ski season.

The Appalachian Ski Mtn. grooming staff has a combined 71 years of experience.

Appalachian Ski Mtn has held a closing day pond skimming and costume contest since 2003.

On a night with excellent snowmaking conditions, Appalachian's snowmaking staff can make 3 to 6 feet of snow.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. is the only resort in North Carolina that offers tabletop jumps in their Terrain Parks.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. has 22 RV electrical hookups in its public parking area.

Each French Swiss Ski College Instructor must go through 50 hours of training before teaching their first lesson.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. is the only resort in the Southeast region with a user-interactive webcam.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. once had a t-bar where the #2 Chairlift is located.

Appalachian's double chairlift is used for wedding ceremonies during the off-season.

In 2008-09, Appalachian spent more on staffing its renowned terrain park operation than on labor for snowmaking.

Most of Appalachian's Terrain Park features are custom fabricated on-site at ASM.

On a busy day, twenty-two Appalachian Ski Mtn. staff members will expedite guests through the equipment rental process.

Appalachian's Alpine Ski Shop buys more inventory from Burton Snowboards than any other ski industry manufacturer.

Appalachian's Ski Shop and Gift Shop Manager Brenda Speckmann taught her children to ski using edgie-wedgies.

In 2005, after 44 years in the ski business, Appalachian Ski Mtn. President Grady Moretz was the sole North American recipient of the National Ski Areas Association Lifetime Achievement Award.

Appalachian's lift operations staff builds a real wood fire in the Dining Room fireplace almost every morning.

On New Year's Eve, Appalachian's restaurant serves Filet Mignon.

The least expensive item in Appalachian's Alpine Ski Shop is a Spyder temporary tattoo decal - 50 cents.

A 52" Lumberjack Skiing Santa is the most expensive item in Appalachian's Gift Shop and costs 60 dollars.

The town of Blowing Rock is supplied with 12 megawatts of electricity by the local REA provider. Appalachian Ski Mtn. uses 4.2 megawatts of this electricity when snowmaking is in full force.

For the 2010-11 ski season, Appalachian will offer over 50 unique terrain park features.

In an average year, Appalachian Ski Mtn. will make snow approximately 500 hours. (Most of this is during non-skiing hours).

Appalachian's snowmaking system converts an estimated 75 million gallons of water to snow during a ski season.

The Appalachian Ski Mtn. Gatehouse is 1.6 miles from US Highway 321/221.

The Alpine Ski Shop at Appalachian is the oldest ski shop in North Carolina.

In 1999, Appalachian's first terrain park feature was an 8' long double barrel rail made from PVC pipe.

3-time Olympic Gold Medalist Jean Claude Killy made three promotional appearances at Appalachian Ski Mtn. during the 1970's.

All of Appalachian's chairlifts have pads on the chair seats and backs.

The "park pickle" is a popular high performance park snowboard by Gnu that is now available in the Alpine Ski Shop.

The Alpine Ski Shop has acquired eight new product lines for the 10-11 ski season.

Appalachian Ski Mtn.'s original base lodge was 12,000 square feet. The base lodge today is over 47,000 square feet.

The Appal Jam Terrain Park was named by Monty Dunlap in an internet naming contest in the summer of 2006.

The slope names at Appalachian Ski Mtn. have an apple/Appal(achian) theme as the property was an apple orchard prior to becoming a ski area.

Appalachian State University professor Eric DeGroat suggested the name "Appalachian" due to the association of this region. The mountain was already referred to by the locals as "Ski Mtn.".

Appalachian Ski Mtn. has several ski-in/ski-out slopeside vacation rental chalets which are rented to vacationers year-round.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. is the only North Carolina ski area that books customized packages with local lodging facilities.

Appalachian's reservations staff personally visits each room type in the 12 facilities offered in ski & stay packages.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. has the only snowboard-width stonegrinder and wet belt sander at a North Carolina ski resort.

All of the walkways (350') around the perimeter of Appalachian Ski Mtn.'s base lodge are heated with hot water radiant-heat piping.

The music on the slopes and in Appalachian Ski Mtn.'s base lodge is provided by Sirius Satellite Radio.

The snowmaking reservoir at Appalachian Ski Mtn. is forty feet deep.

The Restaurant at Appalachian Ski Mtn. has a homemade desert special every day.

There are two sets of automatic doors at the main entrance to the Appalachian Ski Mtn. base lodge.

The Appalachian Ski Mtn. entrance road is a state road maintained by the North Carolina Department of Transportation.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. is six miles from Boone and two miles from Blowing Rock.

The second-story deck, facing the slopes on Appalachian Ski Mtn's base lodge, has 19 picnic tables which will seat 152 people.

In 2007, Appalachian Ski Mtn. installed the largest snowmaking pumping station constructed in America that year.

At maximum snowmaking, Appalachian Ski Mtn. uses as much water in six days as the town of Boone uses in one month.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. is the only ski area in North Carolina with a Zamboni to cut the ice floor on its Ice Skating Rink.

Because ASM is a Burton LTR center, anyone renting our Burton LTR snowboard equipment can purchase a group lesson with a low 4:1 student to instructor ratio.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. is the only North Carolina Ski Area that offers a Flex Ticket that begins when you buy it.

Appalachian Ski Mtn. is the only resort in the NC High Country with 2 conveyor lifts.