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Skiers can expect six more weeks on North Shore slopes, say ...

The North Shore ski season may have as much as six weeks left in it thanks to a second year of unusually heavy snowfall, according to the community’s ski resorts. Grouse Mountain, which has seen more than 1,100 centimetres of sno [...]

Posted On : Apr, 05 2012 | Comments : 0

Resorts work hard to convince skiers to visit

It has been a tough year for ski areas in Maine to convince people that they do have snow. When it comes to the Ski Industry in Maine it's not so much how good the conditions on the mountain are, but the perception of what those condi [...]

Posted On : Feb, 23 2012 | Comments : 0

Cheap skiing: 10 affordable Alpine resorts

The belated onset of snow across the Alps has brought a flurry of bookings, encouraged by tour operators. When you add to your basic package price the cost of essential extras such as a lift pass, ski hire and so on, however, ski holidays [...]

Posted On : Dec, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Technology at ski resorts offers skiers info, images of day ...

The first rule of skiing: There are no friends on a powder day. Technology has infiltrated every corner of our lives, but really, the idea of tweeting my snow stashes is sacrilege. In the spirit of keeping up with the technology, however, [...]

Posted On : Dec, 09 2011 | Comments : 0

Alyeska Resort's early opening draws jubilant skiers

Jubilant skiers and snowboarders flocked to Girdwood this week for the opening of Alyeska Ski Resort, which has benefitted from cold, early-winter temperatures and a good amount of snow so far this year. The mountain opened for season-pas [...]

Posted On : Nov, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Five Idaho Resorts Open for Skiing this Week

Since the mid-1980s, Idaho’s Schweitzer Mountain Resort has not opened this early, but last weekend its lifts loaded skiers and riders for their first turns of the season. The resort joins several other Idaho ski areas that will off [...]

Posted On : Nov, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

California’s Northstar Resort to Access New Sidecountry Terr...

Northstar Resort near Lake Tahoe on Monday announced that it will expand its ski area boundaries in two areas of the mountain this winter, adding 170 acres of new sidecountry terrain to the resort’s skiable acreage. Guided sidecount [...]

Posted On : Oct, 12 2011 | Comments : 0

California ski resorts: Squaw Valley and Mammoth to stay ope...

Could this be California's endless winter? The huge March snowfall from Mammoth to Lake Tahoe and beyond has prompted many resorts to rethink their closing dates. Bottom line: Skiers and boarders could be reveling in the white stuff [...]

Posted On : Mar, 31 2011 | Comments : 0

Thieves steal skis and snowboards from Roundtop Mountain Res...

Pennsylvania State Police are investigating thousand of dollars worth of thefts at Roundtop Mountain Resort in York County. They report that over the course of the season, thieves have stolen unsecured skis, poles, and snowboards. & [...]

Posted On : Feb, 16 2011 | Comments : 0

Ski Resorts Set To Open

Both Dodge Ridge and Bear Valley plan to open in the coming days. Dodge Ridge has received 50 inches of snow over the past two and half days and plans to start running six chair lifts on Wednesday and will have 40 percent of the terrain [...]

Posted On : Nov, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

NY town cancels $2B resort with indoor skiing

A New York town has cancelled a contract with a Scottish developer seeking to build a $2.2 billion resort that would have included an indoor ski mountain. Sean Walter, a town supervisor in Riverhead on Long Island, says Riverhead Resorts [...]

Posted On : Nov, 13 2010 | Comments : 0

Colorado ski resorts roll out their upgrades

This autumn has felt a lot like summer along the Front Range, but that hasn't kept winter off the mind of many locals. With the snow blowing and lifts running at Loveland, Arapahoe Basin, Copper Mountain and Keystone resorts, the 201 [...]

Posted On : Nov, 08 2010 | Comments : 0

Early Snow Hits Colorado, And Ski Resorts Start To Buzz

So what if Halloween's not here yet, and Daylight Savings Time is more than a week away? It can still snow in the middle of October — and in the Rocky Mountains, they're trying to make the best of it. As Kirk Siegler report [...]

Posted On : Oct, 27 2010 | Comments : 0

Resort liability laws: out of date?

In 2007 two people skied over an unmarked boundary at Beaver Creek, Colo., within one week, and sustained injuries when they landed on the same access road. Today they are suing the Vail Resorts under Colorado's Ski Safety Act, alleg [...]