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Jay Peak Resort is an American ski resort located on Jay Peak in the Green Mountains, between the Village of Jay and Montgomery Center, Vermont. Its vertical drop of is the eighth largest in New England and the fifth largest in Vermont.〔(Accurate Ski Resort Ranking with monthly updates ). Verticalfeet.com. Retrieved on 2014-04-12.〕 Although mostly located in the town of Jay, Vermont, part of the resort, including the summit of Jay Peak, the Jet Triple Chair area and much of the Big Jay backcountry descent, is located in the town of Westfield, Vermont. The resort is just 4 miles (6.5 km) south of the Canada–United States border, above which is the Province of Quebec. Jay Peak Resort is owned and operated by a group of investors headed by Bill Stenger. The resort opened for skiing in 1957, and it now includes year-round activities. The mountain offers 78 trails served by nine lifts. It receives the most snowfall of any ski area in the Northeastern U.S. In 2008 the property was valued by the town of Jay at slightly over $12 million. ==History== The ski trails were carved into the mountain during the 1950s primarily by its first ski school director/general manager, Walter Foeger,〔(Walter Foeger website )〕 an Austrian and former racer who had previously trained the Spanish Olympic ski team. He arrived in 1956. He developed a method of teaching parallel skiing that avoided first having to teach the student snowplow/stem turns. Instead, students were taught to change direction by means of a slight hop keeping the tips of the skis on the snow, and displacing the back of the skis sideways. He called his ski teaching method "Natur Teknik" (natural technique). The Jay Peak ski school offered a "learn to ski in a week" guarantee. The method was adopted by a number of other ski areas. In 1955, the resort's first ski lift, a T-bar, was purchased. In January 1957, the resort opened for skiing.〔 In 1968 Weyerhaeuser invested $300,000 in the predecessor organization, Jay Peak, Inc., and loaned it $2.2 million. A 48-room hotel was built in the mid-1970s. In 1978 Mont Saint-Sauveur International bought the resort.〔 In 2006, the resort employed 550 people in the winter, 100 in the summer. In 2007, the resort agreed to pay the State of Vermont $105,000 for violating stormwater rules in polluting a stream while building a new golf course.〔 〕 Despite a drop in skier visits statewide during the 2006-07 season, Jay Peak saw a record year with skier visits up 7%. In 2007-8, the resort reported a record 320,000 skiers for the winter. In 2008, it was the second biggest employer in the area. In 2008, a group headed by Bill Stenger purchased the resort.〔 Stenger's plan was to invest $100 million in capital improvements for the resort over the next few years.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.stowetoday.com/stowereporter/archives/article_594c88bc-6053-5b78-90b3-01d45c70af54.html )〕 The resort company raised $250 million for improvements in 2009-10, from 250 investors from 43 companies through the incentive of the federal EB-5 visa. Under this visa, every $500,000 invested in the U.S. that results in ten new jobs gains the investor permanent residence.〔 A three-way swap was made with the State of Vermont in 2010. The State deeded to the resort; the resort relinquished its lease to a parcel of nearby undeveloped forest back to the state; and the resort sold to the Green Mountain Club to ensure that the nearby of Long Trail would have a permanent buffer from ski-area development. In 2010, $13 million worth of improvements were made including an indoor ice arena, a parking garage, an enclosed beginners lift, and a new RFID ticketing system. The old Hotel Jay was razed and replaced with a new 170-room one. The new facilities also include a spa, conference center and water park.〔〔http://www.jaypeakresort.com/pumphouse/waterpark "Pump House Indoor Waterpark"], Jay Peak Resort, accessed March 11, 2013〕 Also in 2010, ''Yankee'' magazine named Jay as the best ski resort in New England. In 2011, the resort agreed to pay an $80,000 fine to the United States Environmental Protection Agency for filling in of wetlands to construct a golf course in 2004-6, without a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. This was the same event for which the resort paid a fine to the State in 2007. Management plans to expand the skiing to a new area to be known as the West Bowl, although the expansion has been postponed several times, and it is unsure whether the resort has the support of the state to conduct such major construction in the forest.〔("Jay Peak Owners Announce $500 Million Economic Revitalization Initiative" ), Jay Peak Resort, October 1, 2012, accessed March 11, 2013〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jay Peak Resort」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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