Blogs Posts in Skiing category; 289 blog posts

Canada's Valjas wins first-ever World Cup ski medal

Canadian cross-country skier Len Valjas had a modest goal of using this week's World Cup sprint race to crack the top 50 in the overall rankings. He did much more than that. Valjas made his first career World Cup podium appearance Wed [...]

Posted On : Mar, 08 2012 | Comments : 0

Skiing: Encouraging results for Canada-based Pohl

Dunedin's Andy Pohl was New Zealand's sole representative at last week's under-23 cross-country world championships in Erzurum, Turkey. He obtained a creditable FIS ranking of fewer than 100 points in the 15km individual class [...]

Posted On : Mar, 02 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

Vancouver skier Osborne-Paradis hoping to race World Cups

With the Canadian men's alpine ski team now on a bit of a roll, the roster should get a little deeper before the end of the month. Vancouver's Manuel Osborne-Paradis, injured on Dec. 29, 2010 in a crash during a downhill at C [...]

Posted On : Feb, 15 2012 | Comments : 0

Nordic skiing: Warrior boys, Flyer girls and three others he...

DETROIT LAKES — The Brainerd Warriors boys snapped a six-year drought, while the Little Falls Flyers girls made it seven straight Tuesday. The Warrior boys and Flyer girls advanced to the state Nordic ski meet by winning the Section [...]

Posted On : Feb, 08 2012 | Comments : 0

Freestyle skiing: Hannah Kearney earns record 13th straight ...

Deer Valley • Hannah Kearney did not lose the women’s moguls competition at the Visa Freestyle International at Deer Valley Resort on Thursday night. But she trailed. And that counted as big news, considering the defending [...]

Posted On : Feb, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Skiing the Spanish Pyrenees

It was 9:30 on a Sunday morning in the heart of ski season, yet not a single person waited at the ticket booth to buy a lift pass. The rental shop might as well have had a cartoon tumbleweed blowing through it. Outside, nobody was queued [...]

Posted On : Jan, 21 2012 | Comments : 0

Prep skiing: Northmen girls third, boys fourth in Big North ...

The Petoskey girls were third and the boys fourth Tuesday in a Big North Conference ski meet at Caberfae Peaks. Traverse City Central edged T.C. West, 45-46, to win the girls meet. The Northmen finished with 69, followed by Cadillac, 154; [...]

Posted On : Jan, 18 2012 | Comments : 0

Alpine skiing: Pinedale team faces challenges

Once a week, members of the Pinedale alpine skiing team pile into a bus to begin a 75-mile drive to Jackson. The Wranglers are a ski team without a hill. “It’s just been dry land and weight-training,” Pinedale senior Jep [...]

Posted On : Jan, 09 2012 | Comments : 0

Skiers, snowmobilers caught in avalanches

Four people survived three separate avalanches on Monday in the treacherous backcountry slopes of southwest B.C. One skier is in serious condition and a second in stable condition after they were hit by an avalanche early in the afternoon [...]

Posted On : Jan, 03 2012 | Comments : 0

Unimpressed skiers ask: Where's the spectacular La Nina snow...

SNOQUALMIE PASS, Wash. - A lack of snow is not stopping people from hitting the slopes, but most say they'd like to see more fresh snow. Skiers are asking - where's this La Nina winter we keep hearing about? The crowds at Snoqualm [...]

Posted On : Dec, 19 2011 | Comments : 0

Skiing Column: Suzanne Anderson ramps it up

cThe valley-raised strawberry blonde moved to Park City, Utah in 2010 for a job that never materialized. Scrambling for work she landed at RAMP Sports, a fledgling ski and snowboard manufacturer, hired to build office furniture for CEO Mi [...]

Posted On : Dec, 16 2011 | 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

Big Mountain Freeride

WHITEFISH – When Peter Costain first put his two young sons on skis he never imagined it would eventually result in front flips and 360-degree turns in the air. And especially not anything called a “Rodeo” – a twis [...]