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Sonoma County skiers gearing up for season?

The cozy smell of fireplaces hung in the air early Sunday outside the Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Building. The sun cut through a dense street-level fog and illuminated golden, red and green leaves. Inside, people gathered for Santa Rosa [...]

Posted On : Nov, 08 2011 | Comments : 0

Boreal Starts Ski Season in California

Donner Summit, CA - Getting the jump on its competition, Boreal Ski Resort on Donner Summit in California will launch its ski and snowboard season at 3 p.m. this afternoon. In keeping with tradition, Boreal will once again open for Octobe [...]

Posted On : Oct, 29 2011 | Comments : 0

Snow patrol: the ski season starts hereng

The mantra for early-season skiing is go high, go glacial and don't ride your own skis lest those delicately snow-covered rocks act as an angle grinder to their base. Bearing this in mind, it's worth taking a look at Sölden ( [...]

Posted On : Oct, 24 2011 | Comments : 0

Ski season closes after lacklustre winter

The Victorian snow season officially closed yesterday, marking an end to a lacklustre winter in the snowfields. The season started with a flurry of snowfalls in June but hopes of a bumper year melted away with unusually warm temperatures [...]

Posted On : Oct, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

Snow lovers look north: what's on offer this season

I love this time of year, when one season has entered it's twilight and another is filled with expectation. When it comes to following the winter north, Australian skiers and snowboarders are spoilt for choice with North America, Japa [...]

Posted On : Sep, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

CairnGorm Mountain reports second good season in a row

CairnGorm Mountain said it had been more than 15 years since it had two successive seasons with that number of visitors. The centre, near Aviemore, said the season had started early on 13 November 2010 and closed on 25 April 2011. It [...]

Posted On : May, 04 2011 | Comments : 0

Spring skiing season extended; bike park opening May 20

Whistler Blackcomb’s summer and winter seasons will have an overlap of almost two weeks, the mountain operator revealed this week, giving local residents and visitors the option to ski, bike or both in late May. In a press rel [...]

Posted On : Apr, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Spring skiing no sweat this season

So, this is for all you die-hard snowriders out there, searching hither and yon for some place to ski or ride into summer. Chill. As it happens, several local winter resorts will be keeping the lifts running long into spring. One (condit [...]

Posted On : Apr, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

McIvor's ski season over

Whistler ski cross racer Ashleigh McIvor has torn the anterior cruciate ligaments in her left knee during training for the X Games in Aspen, Colo., and will miss the rest of the season. The good news is the injury at least had the decenc [...]

Posted On : Jan, 28 2011 | Comments : 0

Skiing enjoys best ever start to season

SCOTLAND'S ski centres have had their "best ever" early start to a winter on the slopes. They have seen nearly 15,000 skiers and snowboarders on the piste over the New Year holiday weekend, with some of them having been ope [...]

Posted On : Jan, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

Good Early Season Cover in Most Ski Regions

As the majority of the world's ski areas open over the next two weeks, the start of the 2010-11 winter season is still looking good with resorts in the Alps, Rockies, Pyrenees, Scandinavia and Scotland, among others, all reporting go [...]

Posted On : Nov, 25 2010 | Comments : 0

It's time to lift-off for ski season

WITH recent cold weather and snow in some areas, the seasonal transition to winter has begun. And this means it's time for ski buffs and snowboard lovers to get geared up. Ski and snowboarding areas are now busy getting their lifts a [...]

Posted On : Nov, 20 2010 | Comments : 0

Idaho Announces Highlights of 2010-2011 Ski Season

Idaho is a popular winter destination for skiers and boarders who enjoy some of the world's best runs without the touristic cacophony. With more than 22,000 skiable acres, and an extraordinary array of nordic trails and loops, it&rsq [...]

Posted On : Nov, 05 2010 | Comments : 0

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 [...]