St. Moritz, Switzerland – After last weekend’s kickoff to the 2011 season in Courmayeur, Italy, the Freeride World Tour moves to the Corvatsch ski area in Engadin St. Moritz this weekend for the second stop of the six-event tour for the men.nIt’s a brand new stage of the newly-expanded Freeride World Tour 2011. Engadin St. … Continue reading Freeride World Tour 2011 Moves to Engadin St. Moritz
Wilmington, NY – Before your Super Bowl XLV party, there’s another party, at Whiteface Mountain Ski Center in Wilmington, N.Y. It’s Super Football Sunday, Feb. 6, presented by Bud Light, at the Olympic mountain, where skiing and riding is reduced to $35 for adults, $30 for teens and $25 for juniors.nWhile at Whiteface, skiers and … Continue reading Ski for $35 on Super Bowl Sunday at Whiteface
Vancouver (BC), Canada – A total of 15 Canadian snowboarders are in Aspen, Colo. to partake in X Games 15 from today through Sunday in big air, slopestyle, halfpipe, snowboard cross, snowboard street and para-snowboard.nCanadian national team member Dominique Maltais of Petite-Rivière-St-François, Quebec, will be riding in the women’s snowboard cross competition. Maltais is currently … Continue reading Canadian Snowboarders Ready for X Games 15
Editor’s Note: This is a weekly column written by Meteorologist Joel Gratz that will take you “behind the scenes” of the typical weather forecast. Joel is the founder of ColoradoPowderForecast.com, where you can sign up for his email alerts. Boulder, CO – If you’re on the East Coast, chances are you love the current … … Continue reading Groundhog Day
Denver, CO – Big air was back in a big way in downtown Denver Wednesday night as Rocco Van Straten of the Netherlands took giant leap after giant leap to win the Denver Big Air presented by Sprint at the LG Snowboard FIS World Cup. The event marked the first city-based World Cup big air … Continue reading Van Straten Wins Denver Big Air
Denver, CO – Giant snowflakes weren’t the only things descending from the sky in downtown Denver Tuesday night as team Armada’s Spencer Milbocker, Alex Bellemare and Ben Moxham topped the world’s best freeskiing athletes at the the Nature Valley Big Air Challenge Battle of the Brands. A crowd of around 10,000 packed Denver’s Civic … … Continue reading Team Armada Wins Battle of the Brands at Denver Big Air
Innsbruck, Austria – The Austrian Ski Federation (OeSV) has confirmed that doctors in Innsbruck have begun to awaken ski racer Hans Grugger from a drug induced coma he’s been in since a horrific training crash in Kitzbuehel last Thursday that resulted in a severe head injury.n”The results of the latest tests are so positive that … Continue reading Grugger Awakened from Induced Coma