West Dover, VT – When Mount Snow’s visionary founder, Walter Schoenknecht, stood atop Mount Pisgah in southern Vermont in over a foot of freshly fallen snow back in autumn of 1949, he knew that he had found the perfect place to build his dream ski resort. Schoenknecht was an ex-Marine who was widely credited with inventing … Continue reading Mount Snow to Celebrate 60th Anniversary on Founders Day This Friday
Wildwood, MO – Peak Resorts, Inc. on Monday announced that its open resorts saw an increase of over 55 percent in the number of skier visits over the four-day Thanksgiving holiday weekend, to approximately 19,800 visits, compared with approximately 12,500 visits for the same four-day weekend last year. Opening and closing dates at any resort are of course dependent upon … Continue reading Ski Operator Peak Resorts Reports Record Thanksgiving Visitation
Vail, CO – Officials at Vail Mountain in Colorado today announced that the resort plans to replace its Avanti Express Lift (#2) with a six-passenger lift this summer, pending U.S. Forest Service approval. Avanti Express is a primary lift on the front side of Vail Mountain, serving intermediate and advanced terrain and dispersing skiers and snowboarders from Lionshead to … Continue reading Vail Plans to Replace Avanti Express with High-Speed Six Pack
Rainbow Mountains, AK – One backcountry skier survived and another died in an avalanche near the Richardson Highway in Alaska’s Rainbow Mountains southeast of Fairbanks on Saturday, the Alaska State Troopers report. A Troopers dispatch indicates that the avalanche was reported at around 6:21 p.m. on Saturday to their unit in Fairbanks. Michael Hopper, 63, of Fairbanks was … Continue reading Backcountry Skier Dies in Alaska Avalanche
Copper Mountain, CO – The first stop of the Sprint U.S. Grand Prix wrapped up this weekend at Copper Mountain in Colorado, with U.S. skiers and snowboarders delivering strong performances. A heated early season battle went down on Friday as freeskiers took first to Copper’s Main Vein halfpipe. Olympic Champion David Wise, of Reno, Nev., and … Continue reading Three U.S. Freeskiing Athletes Podium at Grand Prix as U.S. Women Sweep Snowboarding
Avon, CO – Ted Ligety destroyed the field, coming back from fourth in the first run to take the Audi FIS Ski World Cup giant slalom victory at Beaver Creek on Sunday for the fifth straigth year. France’s Aleis Pinturault was second, followed by Austrian Marcel Hirscher in third. Ligety’s winning run down the Birds of … Continue reading Ligety Wins in Beaver Creek for Fifth Straight Year
Lake Louise (AB), Canada – American ski racer Lindsey Vonn confirmed that she’s fully recovered from knee surgery by winning a World Cup downhill race in Lake Louise on Saturday on her first weekend back in the starting gate. Vonn’s victory on Saturday, her 60th, capped a first-ever U.S. Ski Team podium sweep. Early-running Stacey … Continue reading Lindsey Vonn Places Exclamation Point on Comeback with Downhill Win
