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Early Season offers from Zenith Holidays.Chalet Louis, Alpe D’Huez: Stay for 3 nights in this delightful chalet and, depending on your flight times, you could be getting almost 4 days skiing! Price £149pp for 3 nights chalet board, 4 nights £199.L’Ours Blanc, Montgenevre: Ranked as the best value resort in France by Where t (Read More)
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Eden, UT - Wolf Creek Utah will open its ski mountain in the Ogden Valley this Thursday, eight days ahead of schedule. Thanks to the colder temperatures and Wolf Creek Utah Ski Resort's snowmaking efforts, the lifts will turn Thursday from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. for season pass holders, with discounted skiing and riding through t (Read More)
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Norden, CA - Backcountry skiing enthusiasts and party-goers alike will descend upon The Lodge at Sugar Bowl from 5 to 10 p.m. on Nov. 21 to celebrate the opening of newest addition to the 70-year old Tahoe-area ski resort, Alpine Skills International’s Backcountry Adventure Center. (Read More)
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Park City, UT - Utah's Deer Valley Resort kicks off its winter ski season again with its annual Deer Valley Celebrity SkiFest, Dec. 5-6. The invitational ski event pairs former Olympic ski legends with television and film celebrities for a weekend of skiing, live music and fundraising for the environmental group Waterkeeper (Read More)
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Austria’s Reinfried Herbst produced a fine second run to win the men’s World Cup alpine skiing slalom in Levi.Croatia’s Ivica Kostelic was second and France’s Jean-Baptiste Grange was third.Herbst, 31, was fourth after the first run on a course designed by his coach, but found the speed to upstage his rivals and win the six (Read More)
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Salt Lake City, UT - The storm that brewed in the Gulf of Alaska before plunging into Oregon, Washington and southwestern British Columbia on Friday set its sights on the central Rocky Mountain states on Saturday, bringing fresh flakes to ski slopes across Colorado and Utah. Today's photos showcase not only this storm, but (Read More)
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Denver, CO - Jeremy Bloom, one of the most decorated freestyle skiers in United States history and a two sport athlete who also played in the National Football League, today announced his official retirement from competitive skiing. Bloom was preparing to compete in the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, but has decide (Read More)
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Wrightwood, CA - On Veteran's Day it only seems appropriate to profile two of the many offers of discounted or even free skiing and snowboarding for military members, their families and veterans. (Read More)
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Alta, UT - An immersion camp just for women who want to learn to ski, or improve their skills and ski better as been scheduled Dec. 3-7 at Utah's venerable Alta Ski Area. The camp's setting is designed to foster a positive environment to help get attendees to the next level of skiing. And it’s all packaged together at the h (Read More)
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Killington, VT - The manmade snowpack at Killington Resort has held on sufficiently through the current warm spell to allow the Vermont ski resort to reopen for skiing and riding on the Wednesday holiday this week. (Read More)
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Ishpeming, MI - Paralympic champions Chris Waddell and Sarah Will and big big mountain skiing legend Doug Coombs highlight a group of eight athletes and sport builders named for induction to the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame. They are joined by adaptive skiing pioneer Jack Benedick, noted industry writer and instructo (Read More)
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Whistler (BC), Canada - Snowmaking is an important part of early season preparation at Whistler Blackcomb in any given year. This year, while extra efforts are focused on readying the Alpine Skiing venue for the 2010 Winter Games, crews are also hard at work across both mountains to open up as much terrain as quickly as pos (Read More)