Peru, VT – Bromley’s two-year, $1.1 million plan to boost the Vermont ski and snowboard resort’s snowmaking capacity an additional 30 percent is completed, on time and in green fashion, for the 2009-10 winter season.nPhase One saw the addition of an arsenal of HKD sv10 tower snow guns, allowing for considerably more manmade snow at … Continue reading Making White and Going Green →

Hunter, NY – For 14 years, a life-sized sculpture of local legend Rip Van Winkle has sat atop the summit of New York’s Hunter Mountain ski area, slowly materializing from local bluestone: tendrils of hair and brow, facial wrinkles, and the expression of complete and utter surprise are some of the features carved year after … Continue reading After 14 Years, Rip Van Winkle Statue Atop Hunter Mountain Nears Completion →

Highmount, NY – New York’s Belleayre Mountain Ski Center is gearing up for its 30th Annual Fall Festival this weekend. The event appeals not only to skiers and snowboarders, but to all who enjoy the local arts and crafts vendors, the spectacular fall foliage views from the deck or the Sky Ride, a variety of … Continue reading Fall Festival Returns to Belleayre Mountain →

Wrightwood, CA – Snowmaking operations began at southern California’s Mountain High ski resort Sunday night and resort operators plan to continue making snow whenever possible until open. This is the earliest Mountain High has made snow in its history and it is all due to recent advancements in snowmaking technology, as new automated fan … … Continue reading Snowmaking Begins at Mountain High →

Las Vegas, NV – A surprise contender in the race to open, the Las Vegas Ski & Snowboard Resort, located only 45 minutes from the Las Vegas Strip, announced Tuesday that it is opening the resort for the “winter” season on limited terrain on Wednesday, Oct. 7.nUnseasonably cold nighttime temperatures and aggressive snowmaking efforts have … Continue reading Skiing in Las Vegas Today for the Second U.S. Resort to Open →

Salt Lake City, UT – Now that four ski areas are prepared to open this week — Loveland Ski Area and Arapahoe Basin in Colorado, Nevada’s Las Vegas Ski & Snowboard Resort, and Boreal Mountain Resort in California — these daily photos are no longer just eye candy.nAll eight of these photos were taken on … Continue reading Snow Photo Gallery: Ski Areas Prepare to Open →

Saas-Fee, Switzerland – A month from now, professional snowboarders from all over the world will gather for the 6th FIS Snowboard World Cup in Saas-Fee. They’ll battle it out in the halfpipe Nov. 4 and 5 for points ahead of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.nThe official training will be held Nov. 2-3. The … Continue reading World Cup Snowboarders Return to Saas-Fee Halfpipe →