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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

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 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

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

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

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 [...]