Brundage Celebrates 50th Season for 2010/2011
Brundage Mountain is bustling with activity as crews work to prepare the resort for its 50th Season of winter operations. In addition to several projects to improve the mountain experience for 2010/2011, Brundage Mountain is offering “50 Days of Deals” this fall, including a two-week Season Pass Price Rollback offering savings up to $120. More information is available at: www.brundage.com/50-days-of-deals/
Children and families will enjoy a brand new Children’s Terrain Garden located near the Kid’s Center on Easy Street. The Terrain Garden will focus on challenging the skills of beginner skiers and riders without the intimidation of steeper hills and larger park features. Gentle roll-overs, plateaus and smaller quarter-pipe features will be the perfect way to build skills while enjoying the garden’s high-thrill, low-risk design.
Advanced skiers and riders will have more room to explore after a tree-thinning project that took place on 68 acres of skiable terrain. That opens up more space in the glades in selected off-trail areas from NW Passage to the bottom of the Bear Chair. In addition, an ongoing brush clearing project will create more spacious lines in Dixie, Meadow Bowl, Mexico and more.
Brundage Mountain has also invested in a brand new fleet of ski and snowboard rental gear featuring the latest Rossignol Amptek technology. Rockered tips and tails make turning easy, while the innovative camber underfoot creates powerful edging ability. This allows skiers and snowboarders to progress to the next level more easily, whether they are beginners or experienced riders.
It’s now easier than ever to put together a memorable trip to Brundage Mountain, with a new, beefed up Plan Your Trip feature at www.brundage.com. The new “Plan Your Trip” link right on the homepage takes you straight to the Brundage Mountain Vacation Planners site, where local people are on-line to answer questions and help with any trip planning needs.
What a relief! Brundage Mountain is adding TWO MORE of the nice log outhouses that we get so many compliments on! Last year, we installed these spiffy new biffies at the base of the BlueBird quad and the bottom of the Bear Chair. This year, you’ll enjoy the convenience of two more of these high-capacity vault toilets. One will be located at the bottom of Easy Street near the lower parking lot, the other will be on the edge of the upper parking lot near the Kids Center. It may seem like a small improvement, but when you have to go, a convenient, quality powder room is a very BIG deal!
Brundage Mountain Celebrates 50 Years of the Best Snow in IdahoTM. All winter long, Brundage Mountain will be celebrating its 50th Season with a flurry of events and special deals. Highlights include a special “50 Days of Deals” event from October 20 – December 8, featuring incredible savings on Season Passes, Select Cards and Gift Cards.
Brundage Mountain will also host a free, holiday “Light Up the Night” Party on December 29th, featuring live music, Torchlight Parade and a fantastic après-ski fireworks show on the mountain.
September 11th, 2010 at 7:29 pm
im so excited!!!!! i can’t wait to come up this year!!!!!! Brundage is so promising every year. Open soon.
gotta-love-snow
September 13th, 2010 at 9:43 am
Hi Snow Man!
We are excited, too, and will open as soon as we possibly can. Do your best snow dance and we’ll see you on the slopes!
September 14th, 2010 at 6:35 am
I can’t wait either just bought new snowboard rackfor car looking forward to shred up the best snow in idaho I’m so stoked to hit the mt this year!!!!!
September 20th, 2010 at 7:14 pm
It realy needs to start snowing soon! I’m super stoked to come up and ride this year! Cause last year i got hurt and didn’t get to go as much as i would have liked to. I can’t wait to get back on my board but i kinda need snow for that to happen.
September 21st, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Hi Shane!
I hear ya. I got hurt last spring right before we got all that beautiful spring powder! Here’s to a whole boatload of early season snowfall!
September 21st, 2010 at 4:30 pm
Can you please put it on your list of improvments for the 50 year celebration to keep the porta potties at the bottom of easy street clean. For the last several years, especially this last season, the porta potties were filthy. This is were the littlest ones on the mountain are going to the bathroom the most and where families are bbqing. There is no excuse for the lack of maintenance these bathrooms get. You can do better Brundage. With a family pass cost of $900 certainly a percentage of the proceeds can go to weekly cleaning of the bottom of easy street porta potties! Or best of all, why not build a decent bathroom down there like the one at Bear Chair.
September 22nd, 2010 at 1:37 pm
Hi Elisa –
Thanks so much for taking the time to write in with your concerns. I have terrific news for you! We are in the process of building two new log outhouses (just like the one at Bear Chair.) One will be located at the bottom of Easy Street. The other will be located at the corner of the upper parking lot, half-way between the Main Lodge and the bottom of the BlueBird quad (not far from where the existing porta pottie is located). These ‘vault toilets’ have a much larger capacity and can accommodate our busier times. (You may be surprised to learn that we DO clean the regular porta potties several times a week but they can fill up in less than a day during busy holiday periods.)
We hope to install even more of these upgraded ‘vault toilets’ in the future. We are working with the Forest Service to get approval to build some of them farther up the mountain, but until then we are limited to improving these facilities on the private land in the base area.
September 23rd, 2010 at 8:58 pm
“These ‘vaulted toilets’ have a much larger capacity” That’s what I like about Brundage,always thinking of MORE,MORE and MORE!!!
November 4th, 2010 at 5:52 pm
Hey Guys; I love Brundage and there each year to ski. Now the problem, my wife is a new “Bunny Hill” graduate. She is intimidated by the other available hills. She needs a gentle sloping area a little more challenging than the bunny hill but where she can make wide gentle turns. This year Breckinridge and this is no good, they do not have a Lardo’s or a Pancake House. Please come up with a good area for the just started skier.
November 7th, 2010 at 9:29 am
Hi Tommy –
Thanks for writing in with your question. By ‘bunny hill’, do you mean Easy Street? If that’s the case, then the Bear Chair is a great next step. The run called “Bear” is nice and wide and is a mid-mountain run which tends to cut down on the fear factor. If when you say she’s mastered the ‘bunny hill’, you mean she’s already confident on all the Bear Chair runs, then I would recommend Temptation. If both of these sound too intimidating, you might be excited to learn that we are actually expanding the choices in the Easy Street area. There will be a couple of new slots to practice on just to skiers left of the lift. I hope that helps – Little Ski Hill is also a great place for beginners and would keep you in close proximity to Lardo’s and the Pancake House ; )