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Storm Dumps Multiple Feet on South American Resorts Ahead of Opening Weekend | Even More to Come! WeatherBrains | June 27, 2019 Dumping at Nevados de Chillan. Credit: Instagram It looks like winter has finally arrived in South America, as the storm currently pounding the Andes has already dumped feet of fresh snow on ski resorts, with […]
W.Va. Resort’s Ski Operations up for Sale Court filings show a West Virginia resort’s owners plan to sell its ski operations. By Associated Press, Wire Service Content June 28, 2019 CHARLESTON, W.VA. (AP) — Court filings show a West Virginia resort’s owners plan to sell its ski operations. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports a petition filed this week in federal […]
Balsams Resort Placed on Market Tuesday, June 25, 2019, NewEnglandSkiIndustry.com The defunct resort is being advertised as ‘virtually shovel-ready. Just weeks after the $28 million state funding bill was signed into law, the Balsams has been placed on the market. According to the listing on CBRE (“the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm”), […]
2022 Winter Olympics To Be Held On Mountains Where It Doesn’t Snow By: UnofficialNet It has been announced that Beijing, China will host the 2022 Winter Olympics. The only problem is that Beijing and the mountains where the ski events will be held receive basically no snowfall. In fact, the area that will be hosting the ski events averages a snowpack […]
Winter of Our Content: The 2018-19 Ski Season Review Jay Flemma LAKE PLACID, NY – It’s a perfect night in the Adirondacks. The scent of burning fragrant hardwoods in the wood stove wafts to us as we sit on wooden chairs on the back porch, biting our nostrils. The snow is still lightly falling as […]
Border War! Vermont vs. New Hampshire Skiing Part 4 – Attitash BARTLETT, NH – It could not have worked out more perfectly: get into the White Mountains of New Hampshire before Winter Storm Harper arrived, ski legendary Attitash both before and during the storm, and then leave North Conway the morning after Harper did, right […]
National Ski Council Federation Newsbeat May-June 2019 Industry Advocates for Federal Action on Climate Change. A coalition of outdoor businesses and associations converged on Washington D.C. to advocate for climate legislation that will help protect the outdoor recreation economy. May 22 was the Lawmaker Education and Advocacy Day (LEAD) on carbon pricing. And the Outdoor […]
Several departments responded to a two-alarm fire at the mountain operations building at Mount Snow, in West Dover, Vt., on Tuesday, June 4, 2019. Fire at Mount Snow takes out carpentry shop, snowmaking controls KRISTOPHER RADDER — BRATTLEBORO REFORMER June 4, 2019 By Chris Mays, Brattleboro Reformer WEST DOVER — A fire ripped through a […]
World Cup Ski Racing to return to Killington Resort through 2020 June 3, 2019 Vermont Resort Welcomes Spectators and Athletes for Two More Years of World-Class Ski Racing Vermont’s Killington Resort, the largest ski and snowboard resort in Eastern North America and part of POWDR, and U.S. Ski & Snowboard, the National Governing Body (NGB) […]
American Airlines Slashes Ski Baggage Fee From $150 to $30 By: Francis Xavier | May 22, 2019 As of Tuesday surfboards, skis and bicycles are going to be treated like regular checked bags on American Airlines. That means when flying domestically with oversized sporting equipment you will only have to pay a $30 fee rather than the […]
Border War! Vermont vs. New Hampshire Skiing Part 3 – Smugglers’ Notch JEFFERSONVILLE, VT – First chair at the place that had the best snow: that was the game plan, but I was having trouble executing it…. But then, like the first ray of sunshine over a mountain’s brow that illuminates the valley below in […]
TSA has launched a public information campaign reminding people that the deadline for mandatory use of Real IDs is about 18 months away. (Luz Lazo/The Washington Post) TSA warns air travelers that the Real ID deadline will be here before you know it As of Oct. 1, 2020, all air travelers will have to have […]
