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The New Ruins of the Melting Alps Climate change has left a graveyard of abandoned ski resorts on the Italian Alps—and a dwindling population of gravekeepers. By EMILY ATKIN Photography by TOMASO CLAVARINO August 6, 2019 Photographer Tomaso Clavarino has been traveling to Italy’s Alpine glaciers to ski since he was three years old. “It’s a […]
LATEST TRUMP TARIFFS WOULD IMPACT WINTER SPORTS GOODS 02 August 2019 SAM Magazine—Washington, D.C., Aug. 2, 2019—President Trump said yesterday that the U.S. will impose a 10 percent tariff on $300 billion worth of Chinese imports, including a great percentage of snowsports products, starting Sept. 1. The move followed two days of trade negotiations with […]
Ikon Pass Announces Addition of Arapahoe Basin SnowBrains | August 2, 2019 Arapahoe Basin, CO. Credit: A-Basin Facebook The Ikon Pass community continues to grow with the addition of Arapahoe Basin Ski Area in Colorado. Now Ikon Pass holders have access to snow at 40 global destinations, including six in Colorado. Related: Arapahoe Basin, CO Ends Partnership with Vail Resorts […]
Vail Resorts to Acquire Peak Resorts, Owner of 17 U.S. Ski Areas PRNewswire July 22, 2019 BROOMFIELD, Colo., July 22, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Vail Resorts, Inc. (MTN) today announced it has entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire 100 percent of the outstanding stock of Peak Resorts, Inc. (SKIS) at a purchase price of $11.00 per share, subject to […]
Bariloche, Argentina Just Got Slammed With One of the Biggest Snowfalls in the Last 20-Years SnowBrains | July 22, 2019 Picture postcard views. Credit: Facebook Just under 48″, that’s four FEET of snow just fell on Cerro Catedral Ski Resort in Bariloche, Argentina over the last couple of days. Resort staff have been working extra hard to […]
Delta Airlines Eliminates Fee for Sporting Equipment Including Skis and Bikes By: UnofficialNet | July 19, 2019 You can now fly around the world on Delta Airlines with your skis, surfboards, bicycles, golf clubs, scuba gear and other large-sized sporting equipment without paying any additional charge. Delta Airlines:“Delta customers traveling with surfboards, bicycles, golf clubs, scuba gear […]
Top Reasons To Wear a Helmet When Skiing Molly Clark When you were growing up you probably didn’t see that many people on the ski slopes wearing helmets. It wasn’t something that was common until the last decade or so. However, new understanding of the many ways that the brain can be injured has led […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
