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Event Information:
The
Wanderlust Festival is a summer
festival first held in Squaw Valley
in July 2009. The event, announced
in May 2009, featured a musical
lineup featuring Michael Franti,
Spoon, Broken Social Scene, and Girl
Talk. Notably Michael Franti had to
bow out of the show at the last
moment due to appendicitis.
Wanderlust featured a yogi lineup
including John Friend, Shiva Rea and
Annie Carpenter. Wanderlust
Vermont will take place at Stratton
Mountain Ski Resort in Bondville,
VT.
Wanderlust will take place at
Stratton Mountain Ski Resort. The Stratton Mountain
Ski resort is located in Bondville,
Vermont. Stratton Mountain is more
than a ski resort. It's a mountain
resort offering you freedom to
explore nature with amenities close
at hand. Play tennis, go hiking or
kayaking, then relax with your
family and hike or ride in our
gondola to the summit. You will see
views only the highest peak in
Vermont's Green Mountain range can
provide. Stratton was established in
1961, and expanded rapidly into one
of Vermont's largest ski areas. In
the early 1970s, following
development of the initial terrain,
Stratton began to develop a new
beginner area; this opened in 1972
with additional trails, though plans
for a new lift were not realized. In
the late 1980s, Stratton constructed
new terrain to the south of the main
mountain, and dubbed it "Kidderbrook."
The expansion included a new quad
chairlift, and was planned to be a
starting point for potential
additional terrain and housing in
the area, though this never
occurred. In the late 1990s and
early 2000s, the ski area
constructed several new high-speed
six-person lifts, and in 2007, the
Kidderbrook Quad was removed and
sold, as it was underused and
Stratton's parent companies were in
financial trouble at the time.
Stratton has 92 trails over 600
acres (240 ha) of skiable terrain,
95% of which has snowmaking. 42% of
the trails are rated as easy, 31%
are intermediate, and the remainder
are advanced. There are fourteen
lifts, which can transport 33,528
people an hour. The mountain's base
is at 1,872 ft (571 m) and the
summit is at 3,875 ft (1,181 m) for
a vertical drop of 2,003 ft (611
m). Stratton has an average
annual snowfall of 180 inches (460
cm). Stratton Mountain claims a
unique role in hiking trail history.
In 1909, James P. Taylor (1872–1949)
was on the mountain when he
conceived the idea of a trail from
Massachusetts to Canada, which
became Vermont's Long Trail. While
on the summit of Stratton during the
construction of the Long Trail,
Benton MacKaye (1879–1975)
considered that it would be a good
idea to have a trail spanning the
entire Appalachian Range. The result
was the Appalachian Trail, a
2,170-mile (3,490 km) National
Scenic Trail from Georgia to Maine.
In southern Vermont, the two trails
are contiguous, crossing the summit
of Stratton from south to north. A
short (.75-mile), relatively flat
side trail leads from the summit to
the Stratton Mountain Resort.
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