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|external_link = (Bogus Basin.org ) |}} Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area is a ski area in the western United States, located in southwest Idaho in Boise County, north-northeast of the city of Boise. Bogus is operated by the Bogus Basin Recreation Association, a non-profit organization, on private and leased land in the Boise National Forest. Ski season generally runs from Thanksgiving weekend until the weekend preceding April 15, depending on snow conditions. The area also has cross-country skiing on of Nordic trails. ==History== The area probably got its name during the 19th-century gold rush. Crooks in the hills above Boise City, known as "spelterers", would made bogus gold dust by heating lead filings with a bit of real gold dust. Alf Engen, the father of the American powder technique, selected the site for the ski area at Bogus Basin in 1939. Bogus opened to the public in December 1942 with a rope tow; a T-bar was installed in 1946.〔"Building Bogus Basin," by Eve Brassey Chandler, Donning Co., 2009, ISBN 978-1-57864-561-9〕 In the early 1950s, Bogus had a 30-meter Nordic ski jump, designed by Corey Engen, and his brother Sverre was Bogus' ski instructor. The first chairlift at Bogus was installed in the fall of 1959 at Deer Point and night skiing debuted in December 1964.〔 The resort currently operates 7 chairlifts and two Magic Carpets. Three of the chairlifts are high-speed quads (#1 ''Deer Point'', and #6 ''Pine Creek'') were installed in 1996 and 1999, and the newest on #3 "Superior" in the fall of 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bogus Replacing Superior lift )〕 Bogus Basin has of mixed runs, bowls, and glades, with groomed. The lift-served vertical drop is on the east-facing "back side," with a summit elevation of above sea level at the top of Shafer Butte, the highest point of the Boise Ridge mountains. This back side of Shafer Butte was opened in January 1977, following the installation of Pine Creek (#6), a double chairlift, the previous summer. A fixed-grip double for 23 seasons, it became a high-speed quad in the summer of 1999.〔(bogusbasin.org ) - history - timeline〕 On the front side, Bogus Basin's southern lift-served summit is at "Doe Point," adjacent to Deer Point, which is slightly higher and covered with communications towers at an elevation of . Both vantage points overlook Boise and the entire Treasure Valley, over 4,000 vertical feet (1,220 m) below. Bogus' base area and main day lodge (J. R. Simplot Lodge, formerly ''Bogus Creek'') are at , at the base of the north-facing slopes served by the Deer Point Express (#1), a high speed quad installed in the summer of 1996. The original double chairlift on #1 was installed in 1959 and upgraded in 1981. Showcase (#4), a double chairlift that had replaced a surface poma lift in 1972, is east of and parallel with the Deer Point Express. The original Deer Point lift was relocated and renamed Coach (#7) in 1996, servicing the beginner learning area. It honors Bill "Coach" Everts, an early area manager (1953–58) and longtime director.〔 At mid-mountain, a second day lodge (''Pioneer Lodge'' - 1973) sits at with a sizable parking lot, a cluster of condominia (1975),〔 and the Jason Harper Training Center. From this Pioneer area, there is direct access to the gentle south-facing slopes served by a triple chairlift, Morning Star (#2) and the north-facing slopes of the Bitterroot (#5), a double chair lift (vertical: ), which runs only on weekends and holidays. In addition, there is connecting trail access to the base of the Superior Express (#3) lift. With its vertical rise, chair, the Superior Express serves the advanced & expert terrain on the northern face of Shafer Butte, unloading at . The lift replaced a Riblet double chairlift built in 1965 and cut the ride time of the original lift in half.〔''(Idaho Statesman )'' - Bogus Basin replacing Superior lift with high-speed quad for next winter - 2011-04-17〕 Night skiing was added to the Superior area with the installation of lights in the summer of 1986, and Morning Star was converted from a double to a triple chairlift in 1999. Historically, Bogus Basin's average annual snowfall is , but since 2011, the snowfall has been well below average.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.onthesnow.com/idaho/bogus-basin/historical-snowfall.html )〕 Due to limited water resources, there is no significant snow making, only small portable units for patching. Night skiing is available on on runs served by five of the chairlifts (none on #5 or #6). Three terrain parks are also available; two on the Deer Point mountain, one for advanced, the other for beginner to intermediate skill levels. The Sunshine Park is located on the Morning Star side of the mountain. The main day lodge at Bogus Creek was built in 1962 and expanded in 1991; its ground floor contains the ticket office and ski lockers.〔 In 2002 it was named for agribusiness magnate J. R. Simplot, because without him there might not be a Bogus Basin. When the fledgling ski area was struggling to pay its debts in 1953, Simplot bought its ski lifts and other mountain improvements from the Kingcliffe Co.〔 and leased them back to the Bogus Basin Recreational Association for $1,500 per year for ten years.〔 His intervention averted almost certain financial demise and won the everlasting gratitude of a generation of skiers. Simplot was later the driving force behind Brundage Mountain northwest of McCall, which opened in November 1961. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bogus Basin」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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