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Breck's second decade featured expansion, change |
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Sunday, November 27, 2011 14:42 |
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Photo by John Topolnicki Sr., Summit Historical Society Topo
By JANICE KURBJUN, SUMMIT DAILY NEWS
When Peak 9 opened in 1971, lift operators loaded the A lift with Coors kegs to do the final load tests.
That's just an example of what makes Breckenridge what it is — a laid-back resort intertwined with personalities of all types.
“Breck has that family feel because, at some point or other, someone in Colorado had a part of it,” spokeswoman Kristen Petitt-Stewart said.
The opening of Peak 9, then known as Royal Tiger Mountain (Peak 8 was known as Breckenridge Mountain), marked the beginning of the explosion that would become the resort and town of today.
By 1972, it cost $6.50 to get on the mountain, compared to $4 in Breckenridge's first season. Just four chairs and a handful of trails were cut into the southern portion of the Tenmile Range. Ski school staff had increased to 58 instructors. Skier days totaled 271,213 — more than a quarter-million for the first time — compared to 17,000 skiers the inaugural year.
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