North Creek, NY – Staffers at New York’s Gore Mountain Ski Center are hard at work this summer developing on-mountain improvements for the 2010-11 ski and snowboard season.nTwo new glades will greet skiers and riders at Gore next winter. “Barkeater” will be a massive new gladed run on Burnt Ridge Mountain that will connect the … Continue reading Improvements at Gore for Next Ski Season Include New Glades, Boardercross Course →

Snowbird, UT – Officials at Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort confirmed on Friday that due to a rapidly melting snowpack, this may well be the final weekend of skiing and snowboarding at the Utah resort.nIt’s “looking like this will be the last weekend for skiing and riding at Snowbird,” the ski resort’s marketing director, Dave … Continue reading Snowbird Ski Season Likely to End Earlier Than Planned →

Comox Valley (BC), Canada – The running joke at the end of the winter season at Mount Washington was that the snow would last until June and you would be able to ski and snowboard the opening day of summer operations. No one’s joking anymore, for Mount Washington has announced that it will indeed … … Continue reading One More Surprise Weekend of Skiing and Snowboarding at Mount Washington →

Emerson, GA – A stroke of Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue’s veto pen has scrapped a developer’s plans to build a $1 billion indoor ski resort in the Bartow County, northwest of Atlanta. Perdue’s action removes a temporary 25% tax break that would have been afforded to the developer, Steve Winters, by allowing refunds of sales … Continue reading Plans for Indoor Ski Resort in Georgia Put on Ice →

Bridgton, ME – Shawnee Peak Ski Area will install Maine’s first loading conveyor system this summer at the bottom of its new top-to-bottom CTEC Summit Chairlift.nThe new Summit Triple Chair, which is being installed this summer, will feature a Emmegi Conveyor Loader. The new system will allow the chair to run at 525 feet … … Continue reading New Shawnee Peak Chairlift to Get Maine’s First Conveyor Loading System →

Squaw Valley, CA – In addition to mountaintop ice skating, dining, swimming, tennis and hiking, summer guests at Squaw Valley USA will this year find mountain biking, paintball, zip-lining and disc golf at the Lake Tahoe-area ski and snowboard resort.nMountain biking returns to Squaw Valley this summer. With the most vertical of any bike park … Continue reading New Activities This Summer at Squaw Valley →

Rangeley, ME – Saddleback Maine is expanding the ski resort’s PEAK (Promoting Education and Activity for Kids) program to honor roll students in all of New England. Honor roll students in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont are now eligible to purchase a season pass for $99. Maine honor roll students can purchase … Continue reading Saddleback Expands Discounted Skiing for Top Students Beyond Maine →