Keystone, CO - Bill Bergman will be inducted to the Colorado Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame this October as a true pioneer of the ski industry and one of the founders of Colorado's Keystone Resort over 40 years ago. Keystone Resort’s history began in a cabin called the Alhambra, named after a nearby...
Salt Lake City, UT - Earlier this season one of skiing's greats was lost in an avalanche in the Wasatch. Jamie Pierre died last November in a tragic accident at a still-closed Snowbird Ski & Summer Resort that shocked the ski industry. He was one of skiing innovators, a friend to many skiers around...
Lech, Austria - Dutch Prince Johan Friso van Oranje remains in critical but stable condition in an Austrian hospital after he was buried on Friday by an avalanche in the resort town of Lech. Friso, 43, was found unconscious after 20 minutes of searching the avalanche debris. He is the middle son of Queen...
Stevens Pass, WA - It was a deadly weekend in Washington, where four backcountry travelers were killed in two separate nearby avalanches, including two well known ski industry professionals. The dead in a noon-time slide that struck a party of 13 experienced backcounty skiers near Stevens Pass ski area, 70 miles east of Seattle,...
Truckee, CA -Today, MakeAHero.org and Northstar California Resort in Truckee will introduce Arizona State University wrestling phenom Anthony Robles to snow for the very first time. Accompanied by his family, Robles will have his first experience on snow at the , learning to ski from local adaptive sports instructor, Bill Bowness. “Anthony has never...
Chamonix, France - World Cup ski racer Christof Innerhofer has been attached to Rossignol since his early days and has decided to extend his association with the ski maker until 2014. With three medals at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen World Championships in 2011, the Italian has truly reached the summit. Through the extension, the ski racer...
Big Sky, MT - Montana's Moonlight Basin ski resort has announced the addition of Heather McPhie to the resort team as official ambassador of the resort for the 2012 season. McPhie, a Montana native from nearby Bozeman, is an Olympian and U.S. Ski Team freestyle mogul skier who competed for the US Olympic Freestyle...
Park City, UT -Ten years ago yesterday, Squaw Valley, Calif.’s young Shannon Bahrke kicked off the 2002 Olympic Winter Games with the silver medal in moguls on opening day at Deer Valley Resort in Park City. It was the first of 10 medals that U.S. skiers and snowboarders would earn in those Olympics –...
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Whistler (BC), Canada - Josh Dueck, a member of the Canadian Para-Alpine Ski Team, has realized his dream of doing a back flip on skis once again. He is now the first athlete known to complete the feat in a sit ski. Dueck a former freestyle coach who lived to be on the slopes,...
Park City, UT - On the eve of the Visa Freestyle International World Cup, Utah's Deer Valley Resort on Wednesday renamed its unique freestyle aerials tow lift “The Hurricane” in memory of the late Jeret “Speedy” Peterson. The tow is used to shuttle aerials athletes to the top of the jump for the annual...
