Jay Peak
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Jay Peak Resort is an American ski resort located outside the small village of Jay, Vermont in the Green Mountains. The resort is a 30 minute drive from the Quebec, Canada border, and Jay Peak accepts Canadian money at par to encourage Canadian visitors (this is now only true for certain menus at the local cafeteria).
The ski trails were carved into the mountain in the 1950s primarily by its first ski school director/general manager, Walter Foeger, an Austrian and former racer who had previously trained the Spanish olympic ski team. He developed a method of teaching parallel skiing, that avoided first having to teach the student snowplow/stem turns. Instead the student was taught to change direction by means of a slight hop keeping the tips of the skiis on the snow, and displacing the back of the skiis 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 remakably successful. It was later adopted by a number of other ski areas.
The summit is at an elevation 3861 feet (1,180 m), with a 2,153 foot (656 m) vertical rise from the base of the peak. Jay Peak enjoys the largest snowfall in north eastern North America with an average of 357 inches (9 m) of snowfall a year. Well known for its Off-piste skiing, Jay Peak offers 24 tree skiing areas, or Glades, covering approximately 100 acres, which have been trimmed of small vegetation to provide enjoyable Off-piste skiing. Jay has 76 trails covering 260 acres of skiable terrain.
Jay Peak is owned by MSSI.