Valle Nevado Adds Two Lifts and Five Runs

New run named "I'm In a Meeting."

Chile's Valle Nevado opens for its 2010 ski season this week with two new lifts allowing the creation of five new intermediate and advanced difficulty slopes including blue, red and black runs.

One of the ski-lifts is a double chairlift that is located in the Ballicas sector, the other a T-bar lift that climb to the highest part of the mountain in the Valle del Inca area, opening slopes of in a stunning location.

Both lifts will be in operation from the first day of the 2010 season and will be able to carry up to 1,300 persons per hour.

In the Ballicas sector the new Embalse (Reservoir) chair serves the new El Beso (The Kiss) and Chao Smog (Bye Smog) pistes. In the Incas Summit sector the new El Ancla (The Anchor) lifts serves blue slope La Felicidad (Happiness) and black slopes: A todo Pulmón (Full Speed Ahead) and Toy en Reunion (I'm in a Meeting).

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