Salt Lake City, UT – 2010 Olympic nordic combined skiing gold and silver medalist Billy Demong will be spending time in the saddle as he competes on Team Cole Sport in the 2010 Tour of Utah bike race. After Tuesday’s prologue and Wednesday’s Stage 1, Demong sits eight minutes and 32 seconds behind the … … Continue reading Olympic Medalist Skier Bill Demong Among Tour of Utah Riders
Lake Wanaka, New Zealand – The 2010 Snowboard and Freestyle Junior World Championships are only days away with opening ceremonies taking place this Friday. The event, scheduled for August 21-31 in New Zealand, will be the first time that snowboarding and freestyle skiing are performing on the same stage in a World Championship event. It … Continue reading Junior Worlds Making History
Aspen, CO – Less than a month after announcing its intention to pull out of Aspen in September, leaving only one United Airlines serving the Colorado ski resort, Frontier Airlines on Wednesday reversed course and indicated that it will fly into Aspen for one more winter.nRepublic Airways Holdings, Frontier’s new parent, is phasing out the … Continue reading Aspen Gets Air Travel Reprieve for One More Ski Season
Mont-Tremblant (QC), Canada – Two-time Olympian Brigitte Acton of Mont-Tremblant is retiring from the Canadian Alpine Ski Team, team officials announced this week.nActon, who made her national team debut in 2003, was GMC Canadian slalom champion that same year and a medalist in super G in 2003 and giant slalom in 2005 at the FIS … Continue reading Acton Retiring from Canadian Ski Team
by Patrick Thorne with First Tracks!! Online Media staff reports Kiltarlity, Scotland, UK – The Swiss ski resort of Saas Fee has reported a half a meter (20 in.) of fresh powder falling on its glacier in the past few days and neighboring resorts Zermatt and, over in Italy, Cervinia, have also seen big summer … Continue reading Weekly World Snow Roundup: Surprising Summer Snowfalls on European Glacier Ski Resorts, While Snow Finally Falls in South America
Government Camp, OR – U.S. Snowboarding’s 2010 Project Gold PGS camp at Timberline Ski Area on Mt. Hood, which concluded earlier this month, offered a great opportunity for aspiring alpine snowboarding athletes. The camp attendees included the elite junior alpine snowboarding athletes in the U.S., as well as the entire U.S. Junior World Championship Team.n”I’m … Continue reading Project Gold on Mt. Hood Introduces Aspiring Racers to Alpine Snowboarding
Vail, CO – What may have looked like children’s play with arts and crafts supplies was serious adult work trying to solve a significant threat that could decimate the ski industry.nMore than 100 representatives from 30 ski resorts across the United States, Canada, Switzerland and Australia who gathered recently at a Resort Technology Partners (RTP) … Continue reading Workshop Seeks to Spark Renewed Interest in Ski Resorts