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Killington announces opening day for ski season

Killington Resort in Vermont announced Monday that its 2010-11 ski season would start Tuesday, Nov. 2, at 10 a.m. The skiing will be on the upper mountain in the North Ridge area. Open terrain will include intermediate and advanced [...]

Posted On : Nov, 02 2010 | Comments : 0

Wild Mountain First To Open Ski Season

Wild Mountain near Taylors Falls is again the season's first ski and snowboard area to open in the Upper Midwest. Spokeswoman Amy Frischmon [[ FRISH-mun ]] says crews began making the first snow of the season overnight, enough [...]

Posted On : Oct, 30 2010 | Comments : 0

Colorado's ski industry excited for the 2010-2011 season

Colorado's ski season is off to a late start, but the state's resorts hope they can make up for that with good snow in upcoming months. Loveland Ski Area opened Sunday morning, two weeks after it began operating last year. After [...]

Posted On : Oct, 25 2010 | Comments : 0

Pre-season ski news

This weekend you can catch the end of the Ski & Snowboard Show (metrosnow.co.uk) in London's Olympia, which today also features the Natives (natives.co.uk) jobs fair, for those looking to find work in a resort for the season. Nex [...]

Posted On : Oct, 23 2010 | Comments : 0

Ski resorts in Europe: the season on the brink of opening

Ski resorts of France, Switzerland, Austria, continued to report on the early openings. Thanks to the snow in the highland regions of the Alps many ski resorts in Europe are planning to start the season earlier than usual. Snowfall broug [...]

Posted On : Oct, 04 2010 | Comments : 0

Loveland starts snowmaking for 2010-11 ski season

The traditional harbinger of ski season, snowmaking at Colorado's Loveland Ski Area, cranked up at about 4 a.m. Friday. The 1,670-acre ski area received a dusting of natural snow earlier in the week, but Loveland depends largely on m [...]

Posted On : Sep, 26 2010 | Comments : 0

The Mavericks Surf Contest enters new season

On just 24 hours notice between November 1, 2009 and March 31, 2010, 24 of the world’s best big-wave surfers will be summoned to Half Moon Bay, home of Mavericks, one of the most majestic and infamous surf breaks on Earth. The [...]

Posted On : Oct, 30 2009 | Comments : 0

Skiing, snowboarding will be free Friday as Mammoth Mountain...

Mammoth Mountain will open Friday, the second-earliest opening in the resort's history and skiing and snowboarding will be free on opening day. Mammoth received two feet of snow at the Main Lodge during Tuesday's storm and the summit [...]