Mammoth Lakes, CA - Some of U.S. Freeskiing’s best athletes, like recently crowned AFP halfpipe World Champion Torin Yater-Wallace and AFP slopestyle World Champion Tom Wallisch, have descended upon Mammoth Mountain’s Unbound Terrain Park for a 10-day intensive training camp alongside the U.S. Ski Team alpine racers at this California ski resort. "Team training...
Park City, UT - Utah's Park City Mountain Resort and Neff Headwear have announced a joint venture combining Neff’s dynamic action sports brand with the ski resort’s terrain parks. The resulting collaboration, Neff Land, will open in 2012-2013 as Park City Mountain Resort’s newest park. “I couldn’t be more excited to incorporate Neff’s style...
Lake Wanaka, New Zealand -Skiers and snowboarders looking for a spectacular journey from Queenstown to the Southern Lakes’ largest ski area, Treble Cone, can book a scenic flight over the foothills of the Southern Alps this season. Launched two years ago, the service is proving popular among visitors to the region and Queenstown locals....
Samuel Miller, VA - Several sources are reporting that Virginia's troubled Wintergreen ski area has settled a dispute with the state Department of Taxation as the resort has been rumored to be undergoing a "strategic reorganization" after cutting its work force in February. According to an article written by Lisa Provence in the Charlottesville...
Mammoth Lakes, CA - U.S. Ski Team coaches and the Mammoth Mountain Race Department have constructed terrain mimicking World Cup race hills for specialized training at the California ski resort. "It took a lot of work to get the slopes to this point, but the crew at Mammoth has been incredibly energetic and supportive...
Heber, UT - Steven Nyman, born and bred in Utah, was skiing at age two (Dad ran the ski school at Sundance) and was a discretionary pick for the 2002 Junior Worlds squad where he landed two medals. Coaches were so impressed, they entered him in a World Cup slalom six days later and...
North Conway, NH - New Hampshire's Cranmore Mountain ski area in North Conway is getting ready open for its second summer season on Saturday, May 26, including the new Soaring Eagle Zipline and Mountain Segway Tours. “We are thrilled to be opening two new activities for this summer. They represent a significant investment in...
London, UK - European airline Monarch on Monday announced plans to launch 10 new ski resort routes for winter 2012-13, including scheduled flights from Leeds Bradford International Airport for the first time. The new routes will reach winter ski resorts in France, Switzerland, Bavaria and Austria via Grenoble airport in France and Friedrichshafen and...
Lakewood, CO - On Monday the National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) honored three ski areas – including Colorado’s Aspen Skiing Co., Maine’s Mt. Abram, and Washington’s Stevens Pass – with the 2012 Golden Eagle Awards for Environmental Excellence. The Golden Eagle Awards are the ski industry’s most prestigious award for recognizing resort environmental programs...
Tanglwood, PA - Recycling, or more accurately "repurposing," is an economic buzzword these days, and is something that the ever resourceful Laszlo Vajtay, owner of Plattekill ski area in New York's Catskill Mountains, practices regularly. It is with this principle in mind that Vajtay traveled to Pennsylvania and acquired substantial equipment being auctioned off...
