Bald Mountain Ski Area is a small

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in north central

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, located northwest of

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in Clearwater County. The area first opened in January 1960, with a

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rope tow A surface lift is a type of cable transport for snow sports in which skiers and snowboarders remain on the ground as they are pulled uphill. While they were once prevalent, they have been overtaken in popularity by higher-capacity and higher-c ...

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(forest products) in the village of Headquarters, it opened to the public in the 1960s. The summit

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is above

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, with a vertical drop of . The north-facing slopes are served by two surface lifts: a

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and a rope tow, and the main lodge and parking area are at mid-mountain. The area is open only on weekends and the average snowfall is . The T-bar made its debut in late January 1969, and the A-frame lodge was built in 1971. This ski area is independent of the much larger Bald Mountain, the primary ski mountain at Sun Valley, a major

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in southern Idaho's Blaine County.

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