“It’s natural for us to kick our ski season off with a celebration,” says Deer Valley Marketing Director Coleen Reardon. “We celebrate the arrival of great snow, the start of a new ski season, the excitement of hosting celebrity guests and television crews to experience our mountains, and the satisfaction of helping out a non-profit organization we feel strongly about: the Waterkeeper Alliance.”
The Deer Valley Celebrity SkiFest will include giant slalom races on both Saturday, Dec. 5 and Sunday, Dec. 6 on Deer Valley’s Birdseye ski run. The competition will be televised by CBS on Sunday, Dec. 20 at 5 p.m. EST following the NFL. The public is invited to watch the ski racing portion of the event adjacent to the Birdseye ski run. A Pro-Am race will be held Dec. 5 at 1 p.m., with the final race taking place Dec. 6 at noon.
Some of the best-known legends of U. S. skiing will compete in this year’s event, including Steve Mahre, Phil Mahre, Tommy Moe and Deer Valley’s own Ambassador of Skiing, Heidi Voelker. Celebrities scheduled to attend at this time include: Cheryl Tiegs, Larry David, Bobby Kennedy, Jr., Max Kennedy, Chris Kennedy, Cheryl Hines, Gloria Rueben, Rob Morrow, Neil Patrick Harris, Dylan Bruno and David Conrad.
Site of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games slalom, aerial and mogul events, other upcoming events at Deer Valley Resort this winter include the 2010 Visa Freestyle International FIS World Cup, Jan. 14–16, 2010. The world’s best freestyle aerial and mogul competitors will show off their moves amidst extracurricular events like fireworks and live entertainment.
