- Boler Mountain
Boler Mountain, is the home of the London Ski Club in
London, Ontario . The mountain is located in the western suburban neighbourhood of Byron and is used forskiing ,snowboarding andsnow tubing in the winter and formountain biking in the summer. Despite its title, it is more accurately described as a hill than a mountain. The facility is a small one, with a vertical drop of 35 m (115 ft) and 20 hectares (50 acres) skiable. There are four lifts,(2 magic carpets and 2 Quad Chair lifts) and 10 trails (including half pipe). The club is undergoing a major expansion which will double the skiable area when it's finished. The new expansion will include 5 new runs and a vertical drop of more than convert|200|ft|m|abbr=on. Although the expansion was originally to be completed by 2000, as of 2008 it has not yet been completed.The hill has been in operation since 1946 and is Canada's most southerly ski hill. It began as a single run on the southeastern-most section of the modern hill, accessed by a gravel road from Boler Road, just south of today's Gatineau Road. The small ski club property expanded westward over the years, and the current chalet was built in 1972. The original Boler Road access was closed off around the same time to permit the building of a subdivision, and the entrance moved to the newly extended Griffith Street where it met the original road.
Boler Mountain was served by three T-bar lifts throughout the 1970s and 80s, the western-most of which was replaced by a quad-chairlift in the early 1990s. The other two T-bar lifts were replaced by a single quad-chairlift in 2003. A fourth T-bar lift had been partially constructed in the early 1980s on a then-newly acquired area of land immediately west of the chalet that came to be known as Hill 2000. The lift never was completed, and was mostly dismantled in 1997. Building of Hill 2000 has progressed slowly since 1978, and has yet to be completed. The tubing hill was added at the base of Hill 2000 in January 1998.
The summer venue was home to the 2001 Canada Summer Games mountain biking event.
ee also
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Chicopee Ski Club
* Glen Eden
*List of ski areas and resorts in Canada External links
* [http://www.bolermountain.com/ Official Site]
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