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Sun Valley Schedules Spring Rail Jam and Pond Skim for This Weekend

March 27, 2013 3:37 pm
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Sun Valley Schedules Spring Rail Jam and Pond Skim for This Weekend

Ketchum, ID - CandyGrind and Idaho’s Sun Valley Resort will present a “Spring Rail Jam” this Saturday, March 30 at 1 pm at Dollar Mountain’s Rail Yard. Entry is free with registration at Carol’s Dollar Mountain ticket window. The next day, Easter Sunday, March 31, Dollar’s last day of the season will be celebrated with…

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Squaw and Alpine Meadows Help Launch “Green Bucks” Program

March 27, 2013 3:33 pm
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Emerald Bay on Lake Tahoe (file photo: Dave Emme/NDEP)

Olympic Valley, CA - California’s Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows ski resorts have joined with the Tahoe Fund and the Truckee River Watershed Council to help launch the new Green Bucks program, a dollar donation program designed to harness the passion of visitors and residents in order to help care for the Lake Tahoe region’s…

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Bolton Valley Adds Bonus Weekend

March 27, 2013 3:27 pm
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Bolton Valley Adds Bonus Weekend

Bolton, VT - Receiving more than three feet of snow since March 15 is a game changer in the ski industry. Recent heavy snowfalls have made for what some Vermont skiers and riders may argue are the best conditions of the season. With this in mind, officials at Bolton Valley announced today that they will…

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Holiday Valley Extends Ski Season

March 27, 2013 3:21 pm
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Holiday Valley Extends Ski Season

Ellicottville, NY - With almost three feet of natural snowfall over the last two weeks and more on the way, Holiday Valley’s President Dennis Eshbaugh announced today that the western New York State ski and snowboard resort will extend its season for an extra week. According to Mr. Eshbaugh, “Not only do we have a…

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Police ID Suspect Who Threatened World Cup Ski Star Tina Maze

March 27, 2013 2:40 pm
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Tina Maze (file photo: Viviana Coloma)

Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany – German police today said that they have identified the man who they believe sent a threat to 2013 World Cup Overall Alpine winner Tina Maze of Slovenia during a World Cup stop in Garmisch on March 2. Police declined to identify by name the 35-year-old man who they believe sent an anonymous…

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Kearney Seals World Cup Moguls Title

March 22, 2013 4:34 pm
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Hannah Kearney (photo: USST)

Sierra Nevada, Spain - Norwich, Vt.’s Hannah Kearney won her fourth World Cup moguls title on Friday at the FIS Freestyle World Cup Finals in Sierra Nevada. “This globe means a lot to me,” said Kearney, who missed the first part of the season recovering from a knee injury. “It’s my fourth globe but I’ve…

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Pats Peak Donates $4,935 and Pet Supplies To Help Needy Animals

March 22, 2013 3:58 pm
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Shannon Camara, Manager of Communications at Concord-Merrimack County SPCA, receives a check for $3,935 from Lori Rowell, Director of Marketing at Pats Peak, and Roxy, the ski area's golden retriever mascot. (photo: Pats Peak)

Henniker, NH - Pats Peak became Pets Peak March 11-15 as part of the New Hampshire ski area’s Midweek March Online Only Specials. Skiers and riders were able to purchase a lift ticket online in advance to ski or ride at Pats Peak for only $30. Skiers were encouraged to bring pet items and get…

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Okemo Hosts April Fool Food Drive March 30

March 22, 2013 3:49 pm
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Okemo's Cloctower base (file photo: Okemo Mountain Resort)

Ludlow, VT - When skiers and snowboarders visit Vermont’s Okemo Mountain Resort on Saturday, March 30, they can ski or snowboard all day for just $39 when they donate a minimum of five non-perishable food items to Okemo’s April Fool’s Food Drive. Teams of Okemo Mountain Resort ambassadors will be posted at Okemo’s Clock Tower…

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Freeride World Tour Crowns Champions

March 22, 2013 3:43 pm
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Austria's Lorraine Huber on the Bec des Bosses (photo: FWT/D. Daher)

Verbier, Switzerland - A first full season of the newly unified Swatch Freeride World Tour by The North Face (FWT) came to an end today with jaw-dropping action on the mythical Bec des Rosses face in Verbier, Switzerland. The four Freeride World Tour Champions were crowned at the end of a six-event global series. Thousands…

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Bankruptcy Judge Approves Sale of Greek Peak

March 22, 2013 2:39 pm
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Greek Peak (file photo: GPMR)

Virgil, NY - Central New York State’s Greek Peak Mountain Resort has been sold to a pair of Elmira, N.Y. businessmen for $6.76 million. Marc Stemerman, 42, and John Meier, 43, were the winning bidders at an auction of Greek Peak’s assets on Tuesday, and on Thursday a federal bankruptcy judge in Syracuse approved the…

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