Snowbird, UT – Wasatch Powderbird Guides, a heli-skiing and snowboarding operation based at Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort in Utah, opened its 2010-2011 season on Dec. 15 to record pre-season reservations and over 200 inches of accumulated snow this season to date.nPowderbird offers a high-end travel and adventure service, and consumer confidence is closely related … Continue reading Wasatch Powderbirds Opens with Record Bookings, Record Snow→
White Pass, WA – Skiers and riders have been anxious to explore White Pass ski area’s new Paradise Basin expansion, perhaps too anxious.nA total of 14 people have ventured out of bounds and become lost in the first 10 days since the opening of the ski area’s new terrain this season. Three have required ski … Continue reading 14 Skiers Stranded at White Pass→
Avon, CO – Road rage took to the ski slopes of Colorado last week after a 41-year-old Georgia man was charged with misdemeanor child abuse for punching a teenage girl at Beaver Creek ski resort in Avon.nAccording to the Eagle County Sheriff’s Office, Scott Filler of Decatur, Ga., punched the unidentified 14-year-old in the face … Continue reading Georgia Man Charged with Child Abuse After Punching 14-Year-Old Skier at Beaver Creek→
Denver, CO – For the third consecutive month, actual lodging occupancy was up among participating western ski resort communities. November 2010 was up 14.4 percent from last November at the 265 property management companies in 15 mountain destination communities sampled by the Mountain Travel Research Program (MTRiP), representing 24,000 rooms across Colorado, Utah, California, … … Continue reading Bookings at Western U.S. Ski Resorts Show Promise→
Salt Lake City, UT – Perhaps no one dreams more of a white Christmas than ski resort operators. But across the western U.S., some are getting more than they bargained for.nAs much as four feet of heavy, wet snow has fallen since the weekend at Utah’s ski resorts. Sitting atop colder, drier snow that fell … Continue reading ‘Pineapple Express’ Delivers Early Christmas Presents to Western Ski Resorts→
Franconia Notch, NH – Ski patrollers encountered their second fatal accident at New Hampshire’s Cannon Mountain ski area in a week on Sunday.nJoshua Vigeant, 31, of Pembroke, N.H., was snowboarding Cannon Mountain with a group of friends early Sunday afternoon when he was found dead on the lower Turnpike trail, which was closed on Sunday. … Continue reading Second Death in a Week on New Hampshire’s Cannon Mountain→
Vail, CO – Lift tickets at some ski resorts have flirted with the $100 mark in recent years, seen by some industry observers as a significant price barrier. But lift prices at several Colorado resorts will exceed the $100 mark for the first time this holiday season, some by a wide margin.nThe websites for Vail … Continue reading Colorado Ski Lift Tickets Break $100 Barrier→
