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Wednesday's Ski and Snowboard Photo Gallery
Salt Lake City, UT - With the Thanksgiving holiday comes the unofficial start to ski season at resorts across the U.S.
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Fernie to Open Early
Fernie (BC), Canada - Thanks to deep early snowfall, British Columbia's Fernie Alpine Resort announced yesterday that it will open for a preview weekend this Saturday and Sunday.
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Telluride Details Opening Plans
Telluride, CO - Colorado's Telluride Ski Resort is primed to open is ski and snowboard season tomorrow which will feature new terrain, the inaugural 2010 Visa U.S. Snowboardcross Cup, easier air access, redefined on-mountain restaurants ...
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Weekly Snow Roundup: Mixed Messages Around the World
by Patrick Thorne
Kiltarlity, Scotland, UK - It's a mixed picture for snow cover across the northern hemisphere as the main start of the ski season arrives.
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Bleiler Makes Her Way Tonight to Conan O'Brien's Stage
Burbank, CA - Olympic silver medalist snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler of Aspen, Colo. will join Saturday Night Live alum Norm MacDonald and musical guest Dan Cummins Wednesday on the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien.
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Stein Eriksen Lodge's Holiday Gingerbread Creation This Year Features Thomas the Train
Park City, UT - This year Stein Eriksen Lodge at Deer Valley Resort is celebrating the holiday season with the creation and display of a nine-foot long, four-foot wide and five-foot tall gingerbread Thomas the Train. The edible ...
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Thomas Campbell
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Raymond
Ski Butternut Adds 120 Snow Guns
Great Barrington, MA - Ski
Butternut near the Berkshire Mountain town of Great Barrington in the southwestern corner of Massachusetts will make more snow this season thanks to the
$500,000 purchase of 120 new energy efficient
Top Gun ...
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Snowfall Makes For Early Opening at Kicking Horse
Golden (BC), Canada - Kicking Horse Mountain Resort has announced an early opening of Dec. 4-6. The ski and snowboard resort above the town of Golden in eastern British Columbia has received over 160cm of snowfall over the past two ...
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U.S. Men's Alpine Ski Team Amped for Birds of Prey Races
Avon, CO - The excitement of the 2010 Olympic season is cued to crank up a notch December 4-6 when the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup rolls into Colorado's Beaver Creek for the Audi Birds of Prey Race Week, the lone men's alpine World Cup ski ...
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Ben & Jerrys Hits the Halfpipe with Hannah Teters New Flavor
Waterbury, VT - This winter, Ben & Jerry's takes to the mountain to honor fellow Vermont native and gold-medalist snowboarder, Hannah Teter with its newest ice cream flavor, Maple Blondie. The first flavor created for an athlete, ...
Rossignol Spins Off Apparel Responsibility to Cycing Company
Park City, UT - In an effort to refocus ski maker Rossignol's business and return the company to profitability, Bruno Cercley, President and CEO of the Rossignol Group, and Dominique Bergin, President of Look Cycle, have signed a ...
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U.S. Snowboarding's Louie Vito Retires Dancing Shoes
Los Angeles, CA - U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix Champion Louie Vito of Sandy, Utah will be performing his final dance at 9 p.m. ET tonight on ABC's hit TV show Dancing With The Stars. It will be his last dance before returning to ...
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Steamboat Plays Host for Lodwick
Steamboat Springs, CO - Double World Champion and four-time Olympian Todd Lodwick fired up early on-snow training on a course at his hometown Steamboat Ski Area Monday in preparation for a remarkable fifth run at the Olympic Games in ...
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Idaho Ski Resorts Set Opening Dates
Boise, ID - Ski swaps have now recycled gear throughout the community and Idaho's ski areas have finished summer chores. Fall weather is rejuvenating the snowrider's soul, putting trips to the mountain at the top of the weekend to-do ...
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New iPhone App Takes Different Approach to Mobile Ski Ware
Cedar Rapids, IA - There's no shortage of snow conditions apps to keep iPhone users in touch with what's happening on the slopes. Double Dog Studios has therefore released its Ski Guide via Apple's iTunes store with a different idea in ...
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Stratton Launching Winter Season with Models and a Movie
Stratton Mountain, VT - Theres a little slice of Manhattan coming to Southern Vermont's highest peak.
Ski Industry Honors Regional Reps
McLean, VA - SnowSports Industries America (SIA) has announced the winners of the 2009 SIA U.S. SnowSports Regional Rep of the Year Award. In its fourth year since inception, this award recognizes those sales reps in the snow sports ...
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Canadian Para-Alpine Ski Team Focuses on Paralympic Goals
Calgary, Canada - Thirteen para-alpine ski racers, including two reigning overall IPC Crystal Globe winners, have been named to Canada's Para-Alpine Ski Team as it focuses its training and competitive schedule to achieve peak ...
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Utah Restaurant Association Serves Deer Valley With a Golden Spoon
Park City, UT - Deer Valley Resort and the resort's Director of Food and Beverage, Julie Wilson, are now among the elite of the restaurant industry who have received the honor of being awarded the Utah Restaurant Association (URA) Golden ...
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Park City
Alta Opens Wednesday
Alta, UT - After a momentary delay, a 10-inch snowstorm Sunday night will allow Utah's Alta Ski Area to open for the 2009-10 winter season this Wednesday.
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Night Skiing Begins Friday at Mt. Hood Meadows
Mt. Hood, OR - Night operations at Oregon's Mt. Hood Meadows ski area, otherwise known as "Meadows After Dark" kicks off for the season this Friday, Nov. 27 in time for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Meadows will extend lift ...
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Belleayre Hopes for Friday Opening
Highmount, NY - After two postponements, Belleayre ski area officials are hopeful that the forecast for cold air's return will be enough to get the snow guns going for a season opening this Friday.
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Record November Snowfall for Mount Washington
Comox Valley (BC), Canada - It's official: Mount Washington Alpine Resort on Vancouver has now surpassed their old snowfall record for the month of November...and they're not even yet open for the season. The ski and snowboard resort ...
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Ski Federation Modifies World Cup Calendar at Autumn Council Meeting
Zurich, Switzerland - Among other business, the International Ski Federation (FIS) approved minor modifications to the FIS World Cup calendars for the 2009-10 season at its Autumn Meeting earlier this month in Zurich.
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Smith Optics Named Utah Manufacturer of the Year
Ogden, UT - Smith Optics Manufacturing (Smith MFG) was recently named by Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP) as Utahs Manufacturer of the Year for Innovation and Technology Commercialization. Presented by Utah Lieutenant Governor ...
Vermont Adaptive Looking for Ski Season Volunteers
Warren, VT - Throughout the course of the 2009-10 winter ski and snowboard season, more than 400 people, including electricians, lawyers, teachers, doctors, stay-at-home moms and dads, college students, and computer technicians, will ...
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National Ski Patrol Turns to Online Auction for Fundraising
Lakewood, CO - The National Ski Patrol (NSP) announced Thursday that it is launching an online auction to enhance fundraising efforts. The online auction is available now and will run through Dec. 9.
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$1.3M Vail Ski Home Being Raffled Off for $100
Vail, CO - The Vail Academy, located between Vail and Beaver Creek, Colorado, has launched the 2009 Vail Home Raffle to raise funds for the school. The Grand Prize in the raffle is a $1.3 million ski home plus $450,000 cash to pay the IRS.
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Beaver Creek
Freeman Leads U.S. in Relay in Norway
Beitostoelen, Norway - Day two of the opening weekend of World Cup cross country ski racing wrapped up in Norway on Sunday with the Kris Freeman of Andover, N.H. leading the U.S. team strong out of the gate with a sixth in his heat of a ...
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Aspen Winternational World Cup Course Gets Go-Ahead
Aspen, CO - The International Ski Federation (FIS) on Saturday confirmed the Aspen Winternational Audi FIS World Cup for next weekend, after a favorable on-course snow inspection Thursday on Aspen Mountain. Up to two feet of new snow ...
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Stein Eriksen Lodge Again Receives Hospitality Industry's Highest Honors
Park City, UT - Last week AAA and Forbes Travel Guide (formerly Mobil Travel Guide) announced their 2010 hospitality awards. Stein Eriksen Lodge, located mid-mountain at Utah's Deer Valley ski resort, was bestowed both the Forbes ...
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Venture Snowboards Invites Winter to a Party in Silverton
Silverton, CO - Venture Snowboards and Ska Brewing are once again teaming up to welcome winter in style with their Fifth Annual Season Kickoff Party scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 5. For the fifth year running, the two homegrown Colorado ...
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Gay Ski Weeks Planned in Colorado at Vail, Telluride
Vail, CO - With the dollar stretched and the constant push and pull of vacation getaway offers advertised on every corner, organizers of gay ski weeks in Colorado at Vail and Telluride are upping the ante to draw in visitors this winter.
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The Man Behind the Face of Canadian Freestyle Skiing
Vancouver, Canada - Mike Ridewood's Freestyle skiing career began 15 years ago, but not as a skier. In fact, Ridewood is the first to admit, laughing, that his skiing skills are "almost non-existent." That has never stopped ...
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Niseko Officially Opens On-Piste and Off
by Kristian Lund
Niseko, Japan - Heavy snowfalls over the past couple of days primed Niseko's slopes for the Japanese resort's much-anticipated ski season opening Saturday.
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Interest in Skiing Eastern Europe Up 154%
Edinburgh, UK - Tight holiday budgets are leading skiers to leapfrog traditional favorites in the Alps for better value ski resorts in Central and Eastern Europe this winter.
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Saturday's Ski and Snowboard Photo Gallery
Salt Lake City, UT - From Tahoe views to a slalom race in downtown Moscow to a traditional Japanese ceremony, we've literally got the ski and snowboard world in pictures today.
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Lake City
Freeman, Randall Lead U.S. in World Cup Cross Country Ski Season Opener
Beitostoelen, Norway - The U.S. Cross Country Ski Team kicked off the 2010 Olympic season in Norway Saturday with Kikkan Randall of Anchorage, Alaska and Kris Freeman of Andover, N.H. leading the way for the U.S., finishing 21st and ...
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Ski Season Arrives in Tahoe with Nearly a Foot of New Snow
Lake Tahoe, CA/NV - Winter blasted into North Lake Tahoe Friday when temperatures plummeted and a powerful storm hit the region late afternoon and into the evening. When all was said and done, Tahoe ski resorts woke up this morning to 10 ...
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Borssen and Hirscher Best in Moscow Promotional Parallel Slalom
Moscow, Russia - The second edition of the Audi FIS Alpine Ski Champions Cup parallel slalom invitational event was carried out before an estimated 30,000 spectators on a giant ramp erected in a rainy Saturday in Moscow. The promotional ...
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Gimpl Goes Three for Three in Stockholm
Stockholm, Sweden - It seems that no one can stop "the machine." After winning the first two big air contests of the 2010 LG Snowboard FIS World Cup sesaon in London and Barcelona, Austrian rider Stefan Gimpl has also clinched ...
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No Thanksgiving Skiing This Year at Snowshoe
Snowshoe, WV - Snow fell early and deep last winter at West Virginia's Snowshoe Mountain ski and snowboard resort. Not this year.
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U.S. Adaptive Cross Country Ski Team Has a Need for Speed
Steamboat Springs, CO - The U.S. Adaptive Cross Country Ski Team is taking adavatge of the early snow at Steamboat Mountain for a camp initiating their winter season. The camp is the first on-snow session for most of the athletes.
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Colorado's Ski Cooper Opens Thursday for Affordable Family Skiing
Leadville, CO - There's no need to spend $70, 80 or $90 to ski in Colorado. The Ski Cooper/Chicago Ridge Ski Area, located atop Tennessee Pass west of Leadville, will open on Thanksgiving Day for the 2009-10 season, and all season long ...
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Western Ski Season Reservations Looking Up
Denver, CO - There may be light on the horizon. Although overall reservations for the upcoming ski and snowboard season at resorts across the western U.S. and Canada lag behind last season, the monthly report issued this week by the ...
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Colorado's Monarch Mountain Opening Wednesday
Monarch Pass, CO - Monarch Mountain will open on the day before Thanksgiving for the 2009-10 ski and snowboard season. The Colorado skiarea will have four lifts -- the Pioneer, Panorama and Tumbelina chairlifts, along with the ...
Michigan's $189 White Gold Card Offers a Season's Worth of Skiing and Riding
Clarkston, MI - The Michigan Snowsports Industries Association (MSIA) is again selling a card this year that allows the holder to ski at 28 different Michigan ski areas this winter for just $189. Called the MSIA White Gold Card, ...
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All Is a Go in Moscow
Moscow, Russia - The 2.500-ton steel construction stands equipped with two elevators and boasting 5,000 cubic meters of snow: the worlds largest ramp in Moscow is ready to stage the second edition of the invitation city parallel slalom, ...
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Stiegler Out For Season
Vail, CO - U.S. Ski Team athlete Resi Stiegler of Jackson Hole, Wyo. will be out for the season as a result of an injury in giant slalom training Thursday at Copper Mountain, Colo. According to U.S. Ski Team Medical Director Richard ...
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Silverton Adds December Midweek Days to Fill Void Created by Purgatory
Silverton, CO - With Purgatory at Durango Mountain Resort (DMR) opting to close midweek during much of December, nearby Silverton Mountain has opted to fill the void by opening on December ski days when they initially intended to remain ...
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