Ludlow, VT – Everyone likes to get a good deal on skiing and snowboarding, and Okemo Mountain Resort is offering substantial savings for residents of Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania when they visit on specific midweek days this winter. Okemo’s Wonderful Wednesday and Sunday Solutions … Continue Reading … Continue reading Special State Deals to Ski Okemo
Warren, VT – Vermont’s Sugarbush Resort begins the celebration of Chief Recreation Officer and legendary skier John Egan’s 2016 Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame Induction with an event at Castlerock Pub from 4 to 7 p.m. on Sunday. The celebration will include beer specials and giveaways throughout the party. Old ski films of Egan will be … Continue reading Sugarbush Celebrates John Egan Hall of Fame Induction
Seiser Alm, Italy – Finland’s Enni Rukajarvi, and Seppe Smits of Belguim, who had each earned the first-ever slopestyle world championships title back in 2011, have claimed victory in today’s third slopestyle competition of the 2016-17 World Cup staged under a bluebird sky at Seiser Alm. It was the first time that the Italian resort hosted a snowboard World … Continue reading Rukajarvi and Smits Win at Seiser Alm
Aspen, CO – Emerging from one of the most competitive fields ever to compete in men’s halfpipe at X Games, Americans Matt Ladley and Taylor Gold, both of Steamboat Springs, Colo., scored podium finishes on Thursday night, earning silver and bronze, respectively, behind Australian Scotty James. James won Thursday night’s competition with a … Continue Reading … Continue reading Ladley and Gold Land on X Games Halfpipe Podium
Aspen, CO – Young Hailey Langland put down an historical performance in Thursday night’s big air competition at X Games, winning gold with a trick that had never before been landed by a female in competition. Sixteen-year-old Langland, of San Clamente, Calif. stomped a Cab double cork 1080 off the 80-foot big air … Continue Reading … Continue reading Hailey Lands First Cab Double Cork 1080 at X Games
Tannersville, PA – A 21-year-old snowboarder died on Thursday evening at Camelback Mountain Resort in eastern Pennsylvania. Ryan Wasson, from nearby Stroudsburg, Penn., was riding Camelback’s Hump trail, rated with a black diamond and illuminated for night skiing, at about 7 p.m. when he left the trail and is believed to have struck a rock, … Continue reading Snowboarder Crashes and Dies at Camelback
Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy – American ski racer Lindsey Vonn, back on the World Cup ski racing circuit from a severe arm fracture for only two races, skied off course and crashed into the safety netting during today’s second downhill training in Cortina d’Ampezzo. Vonn skied down to the bottom of the course on her own … Continue reading Lindsey Vonn Crashes in Downhill Training
