McCall Idaho Alpine Skiing
McCall's Little
Ski Hill and Nordic ski jump are a few miles west of town on Highway
55, just over the county line in Adams
County. It opened in 1937 as a diversion for local forest workers; its 76 acres
were donated by Carl Brown. The Little Ski Hill was the second ski area in
Idaho, after Sun
Valley, which opened a year earlier. It currently operates a T-bar
surface lift and has a vertical drop of 405 feet (123 m), with a summit of 5600
feet above
sea level. The slopes face north and west.
Brundage
Mountain, northwest of McCall, opened in November 1961. With the addition of
two new lifts in summer 2007, it currently has five chairlifts
. Brundage has a summit elevation of 7640 feet above
sea level, and a vertical drop of 1800 feet . The slopes on Brundage
Mountain are west-facing and the mountain's average snowfall exceeds 300 inches
(762 cm). The resort operates a backcountry snowcat skiing operation, giving
guests guided access to 13,000 acres (53 km²) of untracked powder in the Payette
National Forest north of the ski area. Brundage Mountain is a family-owned
resort, operated by the DeBoer family, descendants of early McCall pioneers.
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The new Tamarack
Resort is southwest of McCall on the west side of Cascade Reservoir (Lake
Cascade). Originally conceived as "Valbois" in the early 1980s, the
project was revived as "WestRock" in the late 1990s and ultimately
renamed "Tamarack" in 2002. Tamarack opened for lift-served skiing in
December 2004 and has a summit elevation of 7700 feet (2347 m) with a vertical
drop of 2800 feet
