Telluride, CO – The unique experience that is Telluride starts before the airplane wheels touch down. At 9,078 feet, Telluride Regional Airport is the highest commercial airport in the continental United States. Usually, flights reliably end with a descent into the destination airport. Not this one. No descent, no ears popping, just a gentle, level … Continue reading Telluride: Unique Town, Unique Skiing
Tux, Austria – When the days turn from summer to fall, nature celebrates a festival of color and fresh snow crystals glitter upon the Hintertux Glacier. It’s only a short lift ride on one of the Gletscherbus gondolas from the Tux Valley to the white autumn snow of the Glacier, where Austria’s only remaining year-round … Continue reading Autumn Pow(d)er on the Hintertux Glacier
Salt Lake City, UT – Having just turned the corner towards winter, skiers and snowboarders are eagerly awaiting another Utah ski season. After Utah’s fourth consecutive record-breaking year of skier visits, the state’s 13 ski and snowboard resorts have been working hard all summer to improve the skiing experience they offer to visitors and locals … Continue reading Improvements Abound at Utah Ski Resorts
London, UK – Snow safety is a sixth sense for any serious climber, mountaineer or off piste adventurer, or at the very least it should be for every skier or snowboarder who ventures off the groomed run. The revolution in ski equipment in recent years has made skiing in powder and off the marked trail … Continue reading Ski Club of Great Britain and Snow+Rock Hold Winter Safety Talks
Kaprun, Austria – The Gletscherbahnen Kaprun AG lift company is busy wrapping up construction of the new Kristallbahn ski lift in time for the 2007-08 ski and snowboard season. n
Wanaka, New Zealand – U.S. Ski Team athletes found midwinter snow for cross country training again in New Zealand while some teammates fine-tuned their own training with their grassroots club or personal coach at home. “There’s more than one way to get the job done,” World Cup sprint racer Andy Newell (Shaftsbury, VT) said of … Continue reading Personally Tailored Training Plan Boosts U.S. XC Ski Team
Newry, ME – Maine’s Sunday River ski resort will host the 8th Annual North American Wife Carrying Championships (NAWCC) on Saturday, Oct. 6 as part of Fall Festival weekend at the resort, which will also include the 20th Annual Summit Challenge Race, an Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference mountain bike race, live music, beer garden, wine … Continue reading Fall Festival Weekend Brings Music, Races and Family Events to Sunday River Ski Slopes