Beaupré (QC), Canada – Spring festivities officially kick off this weekend at Quebec’s Mont-Sainte-Anne with the first of five Spring Madness Weekends. Free outdoor après-ski shows will take place throughout Spring Madness on the stage at the base of the mountain. This Saturday it’s the cover band The Crackers, followed by Dejay Nicky Crehall Souljah … Continue reading Mont-Sainte-Anne Launches First Spring Madness Weekend
Telluride, CO – After removing the gates in 2010 in response to landowner complaints, the U.S. Forest Service has quietly reintroduced access gates leading from Telluride Ski Area into the neighboring Bear Creek drainage. U.S. Forest Service officials determined that it’s better to be able to control the access into … Continue Reading ››
Mammoth Lakes, CA – Its 400-inch annual average snowfall and high altitude typically ensures skiing through Memorial Day or beyond, the longest season in California. But what happens when Mammoth Mountain has only logged 174 inches of snowfall thus far this season, with 100 of those inches of that falling in just the past month?
Park City, UT – In the latest maneuver in a tangled and sordid battle for control of Park City Mountain Resort (PCMR), Vail Resorts has offered to purchase the base area of PCMR from current owner Powdr Corp., the ski resort’s current operator. In a letter addressed to Powdr CEO John Cumming dated yesterday and … Continue reading Vail Resorts Offers to Buy Park City Mountain
Revelstoke (BC), Canada – A German national died on Monday when an avalanche struck his helicopter skiing party in the north Kootenays of British Columbia. The unidentified 45-year-old man was a guest of Canadian Mountain Holidays at the CMH Adamants Lodge, located about 75 kilometers north of Revelstoke. The victim was buried under three meters … Continue reading German Heli-Skier Dies in B.C. Avalanche
Philipsburg, MT – A decade after it was first proposed, the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has approved a new access road that will dramatically lessen the time needed by many to reach Montana’s Discovery Ski Area.
Mars Hill, NC – Firefighters were called overnight to a blaze at the Wolf Ridge ski resort in Mars Hill that consumed a ski lift and completely destroyed the North Carolina resort’s main lodge. Firefighters responding to the initial call at around 1:30 a.m. found the resort’s 22,000 square foot timber-framed Ridge Lodge fully engulfed. … Continue reading Overnight Fire Destroys North Carolina Ski Lodge
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