Snowbird, UT – In its continuing effort to promote avalanche awareness, Snowbird Ski & Summer Resort and Wasatch Backcountry Rescue are offering a third annual avalanche beacon hunt for people of all ages, Saturday, March 31 at ski and snowboard resorts in Utah, Montana and California. A championship round of Beacon and Eggs will take … Continue reading Beacon and Eggs: Avalanche Skill Hunt Expands to Ski Resorts Across the West→
Las Vegas, NV – Las Vegas WET, LLC, a company formed to create a massive complex including not only an indoor ski and snowboard resort, but also two hotels, an arena, surfing, performing arts center, retail, restaurants, and the largest indoor waterpark in North America in the southern Nevada desert, made an offer to acquire … Continue reading Planned Las Vegas Indoor Ski Resort to Acquire Over 200 Acres on South Strip→
W. Dover, VT – Television cameras will be rolling during two of Mount Snow’s most popular annual events — the Sink or Skim competition and the Dummy Downhill – both of which take place during the Bud Light ReggaeFest Weekend this Saturday and Sunday at the southern Vermont ski and snowboard resort. nBud TV, the … Continue reading Mount Snow Celebrates Spring This Weekend with Sink or Skim and Dummy Downhill→
Whistler (BC), Canada – The Race Organizing Committee and Competition Jury announced today that slalom events at the Pontiac GMC Canadian Championships will be moved to Tuesday due to current weather conditions at the Whistler Blackcomb ski and snowboard resort in British Columbia. Updates on further schedule changes, including the rescheduling of downhill training which … Continue reading Schedule Changes at Canadian Ski Championships→
Stoneham (QC), Canada – With today’s last falfpipe contest in Stoneham, the 2006/2007 NOKIA Snowboard FIS World Cup season has ended. In the last competition, Manuela Laura Pesko (SUI) and Daniel Friberg (SUI) were able to grab gold before 1,000 spectators. nIn the ladies’ final, the reigning World Champion relegated Australia’s Holly Crawford (40.7) … … Continue reading Swiss Double Victory in Snowboard World Cup Finals Halfpipe→
Panorama (BC), Canada – Libby Ludlow (Bellevue, WA) and Tim Kelley (Starksboro, VT) won the final NorAm ski races of the season Saturday as Ludlow captured a giant slalom by nearly nine-tenths of a second and Kelley won a slalom by nearly a half-second. nKelley won with a two-run time of 1:32.21 and placed … … Continue reading Kelley, Ludlow Sweep Final NorAm Ski Races→
Oslo, Norway – World Championships silver medalist Bill Demong (Vermontville, NY) moved up four places in the 7.5K sprint Sunday to finish third, ending his best nordic combined World Cup ski season on the podium behind Jason Lamy Chappuis of France and Felix Gottwald of Austria. Eric Camerota (Park City, UT) was 27th. nDemong, … … Continue reading Demong 3rd in Final Nordic Combined Skiing Sprint→
