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Big Mountain (Northumberland County, Pennsylvania)
Big Mountain may refer to: Places United States * Big Mountain Air Force Station, Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska ** Big Mountain, Alaska, the location of the Air Force station * Big Mountain, Arizona, another name for Black Mesa, Arizona * Big Mountain (Broadwater County, Montana), a mountain in Broadwater County, Montana * Big Mountain (Flathead County, Montana), a mountain in Flathead County, Montana * Big Mountain (Jefferson County, Montana), a mountain in Jefferson County, Montana * Big Mountain (Madison County, Montana), a mountain in Madison County, Montana * The Big Mountain, a ski resort in Montana * Big Mountain (Oklahoma), a mountain ridge in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma * Big Mountain (Pennsylvania), a mountain ridge in Pennsylvania * Big Mountain Pass, a mountain pass in Utah Entertainment * Big Mountain (band), an American reggae band * ''Big Mountain 2000'', a video game * Big Mountain Short Film Festival The Big Mountain Short Film Festival is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Mountain Air Force Station
Big Mountain Air Force Station is a military use airstrip located near Big Mountain, in the Lake and Peninsula Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. The airstrip was built to support the Big Mountain Radio Relay Station, an abandoned Air Force facility located southwest of Anchorage on the south shore of Iliamna Lake. History Big Mountain RRS was constructed in 1956 as part of the White Alice Communication System (WACS), a defense communication network and aircraft warning system established across Alaska during the Cold War. Advances in technology made the Big Mountain installation obsolete and it was abandoned in 1979. The United States Air Force still owns at the site, which consists of a Lower Camp alongside the airstrip and an Upper Camp on the top of Big Mountain. There is also a barge landing site at Reindeer Bay that is now owned by the University of Alaska, with surrounding land owned by the State of Alaska. Facilities Big Mountain has one runway designated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Big Mountain
Whitefish Mountain Resort is a ski resort in the western United States, located at Big Mountain in northwestern Montana. It is west of Glacier National Park in the Flathead National Forest, from the town of Whitefish, west of Columbia Falls, and north of Kalispell. History Winter Sports, Inc. (WSI) formed in 1947 as a public company of community shareholders, opened Big Mountain that It hosted the U.S. Alpine Championships in early March 1949, where future Olympic champion Andrea Mead of Vermont won all three women's titles at age sixteen. The mountain originally had a single T-bar, which was replaced by chairlifts installed in 1960, and 1968. After sixty years, it was renamed "Whitefish Mountain Resort" by then the ski area had expanded to include ten chairlifts. Olympic champion Tommy Moe (b.1970) learned to ski and race at the mountain, where his father was on the ski patrol. Moe won the gold medal in the and the silver in the at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Mountain Skiing
Extreme skiing is performed on long, steep (typically from 45 to 60+ degrees, or grades of 100 to 170 percent) slopes in mountainous terrain. The French coined the term 'Le Ski Extreme' in the 1970s. The first practitioners include Swiss skier Sylvain Saudan, who invented the "windshield wiper" turn in the mid-1960s, and in 1967 made the first descents of slopes in the Swiss, French and Italian Alps that were previously considered impossible. Saudan's 'first descent' in America was at Mt. Hood March 3, 1971. Early American practitioners include Bill Briggs, who descended Grand Teton on June 15, 1971. The Frenchmen Patrick Vallençant, Jean-Marc Boivin and Anselme Baud and the Italians Stefano De Benedetti and Toni Valeruz were among those who further developed the art and brought notoriety to the sport in the 1970s and 1980s. The key North American skiers who popularized the sport include: Doug Coombs, Shane McConkey, Seth Morrison, David W. Kraft, Glen Plake Glen Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Vegas
''Fallout: New Vegas'' is a 2010 action role-playing game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and published by Bethesda Softworks. It was announced in April 2009 and released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360 on October 19, 2010. A spin-off of the main '' Fallout'' series, the game is set in a post-apocalyptic open world environment that encompasses a region consisting of parts of Arizona, California, and Nevada. It is set in a world that deviated onto an alternate timeline thanks to Atomic Age technology, which eventually led to a global nuclear apocalypse in the year 2077 in an event referred to as "The Great War", caused by a major conflict between the U.S. and China over natural resources. The main story of ''New Vegas'' takes place in the year 2281, four years after the events of '' Fallout 3'' and 204 years after the bombs fell. It is not a direct sequel, but does feature the return of several elements found in '' Fallout 2''. Players take contro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Mountain Short Film Festival
The Big Mountain Short Film Festival is a short film festival based in Ohakune, New Zealand designed to encourage and celebrate creative short film making and storytelling. Entry is free and open to filmmakers internationally, who are encouraged to use maximum creativity on minimum budget. In addition to screening short films, the festival also features professional guest speakers offering tips and techniques on an assortment of topics of particular interest to low and no-budget filmmakers. The festival was run as a three-day event in 2006 and 2007, before being reformatted as a single-day event, beginning in 2008. History The first annual Big Mountain Short Film Festival was held on October 20–22, 2006 at the Ohakune Cinema on Goldfinch Street in Ohakune. It was co-founded by filmmakers Jeff Bollow and Bret Gibson as a way to encourage and inspire filmmaking in New Zealand. From the beginning, the Big Mountain Short Film Festival was conceived as an entirely free event ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Mountain 2000
''Big Mountain 2000'', known in Japan as , is a skiing/snowboarding video game for the Nintendo 64. Gameplay ''Big Mountain 2000'' puts the player in control of one of six racers of varying abilities using either snowboard or skis. There are three different modes to choose from: a single-player Championship, a 2-player Multiplayer mode, and Time Attack. The player can edit their selected racer's loadout of snowboard/skis and clothing to compliment or detriment their various stats. There are three race types: Free Ride, Slalom and Giant slalom. On top of trying to beat their own personal record, the player also has a countdown timer which will disqualify them from the race if it reaches zero. Time can be added by passing through one of the two Checkpoints on their selected stage during Free Ride or passing through the flags on the slalom courses. Players can perform tricks by moving the control stick and pressing the B button in mid-air. The player also has a stamina meter that de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Mountain (band)
Big Mountain is an American band known for its remake of Peter Frampton's "Baby, I Love Your Way", which became a top 10 hit single in the US in early 1994, reaching No. 6 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100, No. 1 on the Mainstream Top 40 and No. 2 in the UK. History The evolution of the Big Mountain band started in 1986 as the San Diego, California reggae band Rainbow Warriors.de la Torre, Chito (1994)Big Mountain Does Reggae, ''La Prensa de San Antonio'', September 30, 1994. In 1988, future Big Mountain frontman Joaquin "Quino" (pronounced ''Keeno'') McWhinney joined as the lead singer of the band Shiloh. Quino is of Mexican/Irish heritage, and several members of his family were mariachi musicians. His interest in reggae began after seeing a documentary about Bob Marley and Rastafari.Daniels, Ron (1994)Big Mountain are Reggae Visionaries, ''The New York Beacon'', August 19, 1994. In 1989, Shiloh secured their first record deal and put out one album titled ''California Reggae''. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Mountain Pass
Big Mountain Pass is a mountain pass in the Wasatch Mountains in Utah. It has an elevation of . It is on the original route of the Mormon pioneers who crossed it in 1847 on their way to the Salt Lake Valley Salt Lake Valley is a valley in Salt Lake County in the north-central portion of the U.S. state of Utah. It contains Salt Lake City and many of its suburbs, notably Murray, Sandy, South Jordan, West Jordan, and West Valley City; its total po .... Mormon Trail landforms of Morgan County, Utah landforms of Salt Lake County, Utah mountain passes of Utah Wasatch Range {{Utah-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Mountain (Pennsylvania)
Big Mountain is the high point on the Tuscarora Mountain ridge in south central Pennsylvania in the United States. The summit is located in the Buchanan State Forest and offers a viewshed that is one of the more stunning in the Commonwealth. Tuscarora Formation quartzite of the Silurian Age underlies the summit; it is this weather resistant rock which gives Big Mountain its high prominence. Big Mountain has the largest vertical rise in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, with over an 1800' difference between summit and the creek valley below on the east side of the mountain. Big Mountain and the rest of the Tuscarora Ridge has abundant wildlife. Black bear, white-tailed deer, a variety of bird species and its most notorious resident the timber rattlesnake can be found while hiking on the ridge. The Tuscarora Trail passes along the ridge and over the summit, the nearby Cowans Gap State Park offers a variety of campsites, swimming, boating and hiking trails centered on a lake. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Mountain (Oklahoma)
Big Mountain is a mountain in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma. It is part of the Kiamichi Mountains, a subrange of the Ouachita Mountains. Geology The summit of Big Mountain is 1,145 feet above sea level. It is located 5.5 miles northeast of Moyers, Oklahoma Moyers is an unincorporated community located in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, United States. Demographics History A permanent settlement has existed at the site of modern Moyers since at least the 1880s. During the 1880s the St. Louis-San F ....USGS data made available on http://www.mountainzone.com/mountains/detail.asp?fid=1900456. Buck Creek forms its southern limit. Pine Creek forms its northern limit. The Kiamichi River forms its eastern limit, and Kimbrough Creek forms its western limit. The mountain is considered to form the southern geographic limit of Johns Valley. History Big Mountain has also in the past been called Deer Mountain. During World War II the area was the site of two lethal air crashe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mountains In Madison County, Montana
There are at least 126 named mountains in Madison County, Montana. * A P A Mountain, , el. * Bald Mountain, location unknown, el. * Baldy Mountain, , el. * Beaverhead Rock, , el. * Bell Peak, , el. * Big Horn Mountain, , el. * Big Mountain, , el. * Big Sheep Mountain, , el. * Black Butte, , el. * Black Mountain, , el. * Blaze Mountain, , el. * Block Mountain, , el. * Branham Peaks, , el. * Brownback Mountain, , el. * Bucks Nest, , el. * Bulldog Mountain, , el. * Cascade Mountain, , el. * Cave Mountain, , el. * Cedar Mountain, , el. * Circle Mountain, , el. * Cloudrest Peak, , el. * Copper Mountain, , el. * Dead Mountain, , el. * Divide Peakl, , el. * Dougherty Butte, , el. * Dry Lake Mountains, , el. * Dutchman Peak, , el. * East Butte, , el. * Echo Peak, , el. * Elk Mountain, , el. * Fan Mountain, , el. * Finger Mountain, , el. * Flatiron Mountain, , el. * Flatiron Mountain, , el. * Flattop Mountain, , el. * Fossil Peak, , el. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Mountain, Alaska
Big or BIG may refer to: * Big, of great size or degree Film and television * ''Big'' (film), a 1988 fantasy-comedy film starring Tom Hanks * ''Big!'', a Discovery Channel television show * ''Richard Hammond's Big'', a television show presented by Richard Hammond * ''Big'' (TV series), a 2012 South Korean TV series * ''Banana Island Ghost'', a 2017 fantasy action comedy film Music * '' Big: the musical'', a 1996 musical based on the film * Big Records, a record label * ''Big'' (album), a 2007 album by Macy Gray * "Big" (Dead Letter Circus song) * "Big" (Sneaky Sound System song) * "Big" (Rita Ora and Imanbek song) * "Big", a 1990 song by New Fast Automatic Daffodils * "Big", a 2021 song by Jade Eagleson from ''Honkytonk Revival'' * The Notorious B.I.G., an American rapper Places * Allen Army Airfield (IATA code), Alaska, US * BIG, a VOR navigational beacon at London Biggin Hill Airport * Big River (other), various rivers (and other things) * Big Island (disam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
