GEOLOGY AND GEOLOGIC HAZARDS OF THE 2018 PROPOSED SNOWMAKING AREAS, UPPER FRONT SIDE, VAIL RESORT, EAGLE COUNTY, COLORADO: for SE Group and Leonard Rice Water Engineers
This 2018 study examined the entire northern slope of Vail Mountain, which hosts the original ski trails of Vail Resort. Since the 1970s the entire 850 m-high, 5.5 km-long slope has been portrayed as a landslide on published geologic maps. But the slope had never been geotechnically studied. Using Vail Resorts’ bare-earth 1-meter lidar, we were able to subdivide the slide mass into various lobes, to drill three boreholes, test material strengths, and make a preliminary slope stability analysis.
