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Ski Season Starts In The Desert
December 01, 2008 - Ski Season Kicks Off In The Desert
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Wrap up for winter
December 01, 2008 - The calendar says that we have three weeks before winter begins.
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Circumstances Are Positive For Ontario Resorts This Winter
December 01, 2008 - Recent forecasts from Environment Canada of a 2008/2009 winter season with above average snowfall and cooler temperatures, combined with a lower Canadian dollar and predictions that vacationing Canadian's will be staying closer to home this year, gives Ontario winter resorts reason to be hopeful of another busy winter season ahead.
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Vail energy efforts may go unnoticed
December 01, 2008 - Its a cloudy day, and Vail has gotten its first snowfall in weeks its good for the skiing, but bad for the array of newly installed solar panels at the top of Eagles Nest.
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Chairlifts sit idle as ski resorts suffer through dry conditions
December 01, 2008 - Despite the time of year, more boats were out on Lake Tahoe Sunday than chairlifts were operating - making ski resort owners nervous in an already tough year.
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Heaveny kicks off ski season
December 01, 2008 - With blue skies, light wind and and pleasant temperatures, Heavenly Mountain Resort opened Friday morning, the first South Shore ski resort to open for the 2008-09 ski season.
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Slopes Open Early at Wintergreen (6:11am)
December 01, 2008 - WINTERGREEN, Va. (AP) - The slopes are opening early at Wintergreen Resort. The central Virginia skiing destination opened the slopes this weekend, two weeks ahead of schedule.
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Gas stations report higher sales for holiday weekend
December 01, 2008 - With such dramatic reductions at the gas pump, area businesses have reasons to be hopeful this season.
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Blue open for business
December 01, 2008 - The hills are alive! Local elementary students experienced a P.A. day that went downhill fast last Friday. Blue Mountain resort opened four runs and two chair lifts this weekend to mark an early start to the ski and snowboard season, and some students traded sleeping in for a morning on the slopes.
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Sports Shorts: Choi takes an early lead at Skins Game
November 30, 2008 - K.J. Choi rolled in a three-foot birdie putt worth $75,000 on the third hole Saturday, giving him the first-day lead in the 26th annual Skins Game. Phil Mickelson earned $25,000 with a spectacular eagle-3 on the fourth hole, while two-time defending champion Stephen Ames and Skins Game rookie Rocco Mediate were shut out on the first nine holes. But with the foursome halving the final five holes ...
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Disaster? Megéve was a triumph
November 30, 2008 - Let me count the ways in which this should have been a disaster. We'd chosen the last-but-one week of the season, a warm and sunny Easter holiday, in a region untouched by snow in the whole of the previous April. We'd booked horrendously early flights with easyJet. (Can saving a couple of hundred quid ever compensate for a 3.45am alarm call?) By the time we'd reached Megève via a minibus ...
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Bogus Basin remains optimistic for good ski season
November 30, 2008 - BOISE -- Despite warm weather and the lack of snow so far this season, local skiers and snowboarders are staying positive. Its become one of the most popular sales of the year. Every February for the past five or six years, Bogus Basin sells its season pass for just $199.
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Ski season off to strong start
November 30, 2008 - Blessed with some big drops of November mountain snow, West Virginia's five downhill ski resorts are gearing up for one of the best starts in recent years.
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Michigan slopes primed for snow
November 30, 2008 - Michigan skiers have gloved fingers crossed. They want a repeat of last winter's weather. "Last year, the atmosphere was so great," said Jami Morris, 21, of Grosse Pointe, whose family has a house in Harbor Springs near Nub's Nob. "It was amazing. It was powder."
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In the Trenches: Event coordinator serves Sandoval
November 30, 2008 - Job: Special events coordinator for Club Sandoval at Bonita Bay Group's Sandoval community in Cape Coral.
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Take a powder
November 30, 2008 - "I thought it must surely be the fairest picture the whole earth affords," Mark Twain wrote of Lake Tahoe in 1872. More than 136 years later, Twain's words still ring true, especially for skiers at the resorts that ring the California lake like a crown. But gorgeous views of the lake, lots of snow and great vertical drops are the only things that the North Lake Tahoe and South Lake Tahoe ...
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Alyeska: a new season
November 30, 2008 - In December of 1959 when Bud Gibbs first showed up at the base of Mount Alyeska with five friends, he was greeted by eight feet of snow and a little Poma lift -- essentially a T-bar -- that yanked skiers several hundred feet up the 3,939-foot mountain along the route Chair 3 now occupies.
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Trip tracker
November 30, 2008 - Thinking of heading Outside for a winter adventure? For a change of scenery, try these top destinations. But with great ski packages, Alyeska Ski Resort in Girdwood proves there's no place like home. Check out their web specials at www.alyeskaresort.com.
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Ski resorts to lure visitors with hot deals for early-season stays
November 30, 2008 - Many ski resorts are offering early-season deals. Here are some to consider.
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Hurting resorts amp up bargains to attract skiers
November 30, 2008 - BEAVER CREEK, Colo. Mike and Pam Mathe have taken their two kids skiing at Beaver Creek over Christmas break each of the past five years. It's their one big vacation for the year, a luxurious respite from Mike's traveling, the kids' classes.
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Ski and social forecast at Snowmass lookin' good
November 30, 2008 - The former ski racer wound up in Boulder, Colo., working for the Colorado Department of Transportation for six years before getting his dream life a little less than two years ago a job as Pitkin County engineer, a place to call home in Snowmass Village and as many days on the slopes as he could handle.
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Jackson's thrillers
November 30, 2008 - JACKSON, Wyoming Big, tough mountains are known for exacting a toll. So I'm lucky, I guess, that all I lost was a pair of $80 Bolle ski goggles during my visit to Jackson Hole last January. It could have been worse. On the other hand, with around 10 inches of light, new snow each morning, it hardly could have been better.
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News 11.29.2008
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Mount Bachelor among nation's most popular ski resorts
November 30, 2008 - MOUNT BACHELOR, Ore. -- Deep powder is standard issue at Mount Bachelor, a West coast favorite that averages 400 inches of snow per season, just 20 miles from the outdoors haven of Bend, Oregon.
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Tubers to ride magic carpet
November 30, 2008 - Snow tubers will have a new, safer way of getting to the top of the tubing hill at Ski Roundtop in Warrington Township when the hill opens in early December.
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Slopes open early at Wintergreen
November 30, 2008 - The slopes are opening early at Wintergreen Resort.
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Heavenly opens for skiing at Lake Tahoe
November 29, 2008 - UPDATED: 1:30 p.m.: With blue skies, light wind and and pleasant temperatures, Heavenly Mountain Resort opened this morning, the first south shore Lake Tahoe ski resort to open for the 2008/2009 ski season.
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Slopes still awaiting snow
November 29, 2008 - Seattle meteorologist Larry Schick, who specializes in forecasts for skiers, estimates that 6 to 12 inches of snow could fall in the mountains between Thursday and Saturday, followed by another weather front later in December.
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Lake Tahoe Ski Resort Openings Delayed
November 29, 2008 - A storm dropped a few inches of snow around Lake Tahoe, but it was not enough to allow skiers and snowboarders to hit the slopes in full force. Like most Sierra resorts, Kirkwood had hoped to open by Thanksgiving.
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Resort Expands To Entice Locals To Ski The Slopes
November 29, 2008 - Despite a tough economy, at least one Minnesota company sees an opportunity.
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Austrians rule the slopes
November 29, 2008 - Walchhofer knows how to win on Lake Louise course
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Swain Opens for Skiing, Snowboarding
November 29, 2008 - Others who were not shopping on this traditional day off, hit the slopes. Swain Ski Resort got snow, so it opened Friday for skiing and snowboarding. About 20 inches of natural snow fell over the past two weeks and temperatures were cold enough to make snow, so the ski resort opened early.
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Copper season off to big start
November 29, 2008 - Skydiving Santa, snowshoe races and fireworks on tap this weekend
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Copper Mountain's season off to big start
November 29, 2008 - Copper Mountain has 130 acres of terrain open on nine trails and is operating six lifts
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Skiing: Avoiding the halfterm hikes
November 29, 2008 - British and French schoolchildren share the same spring holiday week. With France being a bad idea Peter Hardy selects some alternative ski resorts.
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Michigan ski sites up early
November 29, 2008 - Michigan snowsports enthusiasts got an early Christmas present when a cold snap settled over the region in mid-November, coaxing many local ski resorts to open two to three weeks ahead of schedule.
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Ski season opens
November 29, 2008 - Buoyed by the recent stretch of cold weather ideal for snow making Black Friday became a record-setting white Friday for many area ski resorts.
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Weather delays ski resort openings
November 29, 2008 - For those who prefered a terrain park over a turkey and opted for snowboards over stuffing, Sierra ski resort operators have one message.
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Tahoe ski resort openings delayed
November 29, 2008 - RENO -- A storm dropped a few inches of snow around Lake Tahoe, but it was not enough to allow skiers and snowboarders to hit the slopes in full force yet.
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Master Development Plan approved for Summit at Snoqualmie
November 29, 2008 - SNOQUALMIE PASS The U.S. Forest Service has given its blessing to a Master Development Plan that will bring major improvements to the Summit at Snoqualmies four ski areas.
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Ski Season Off to Best Start in Years
November 28, 2008 - NEWRY (NEWS CENTER) -- Folks over at Sunday River Ski Resort have a lot to be thankful for this holiday. The season has gotten off to a great start -- thanks to nearly a foot of snow earlier this week. The resort is confident these conditions will help it weather the economic storm.
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Snow tubing gaining popularity in the NC mountains
November 28, 2008 - BURKE COUNTY, NC (WBTV) - A new tradition for Thanksgiving Day is growing in popularity in the North Carolina mountains and it has nothing to do with turkey.
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Whistler happy to see American skiers arriving on Thanksgiving
November 28, 2008 - Hotels and merchants in Whistler--not to mention the Whistler/Blackcomb ski resort--are celebrating a sudden influx of American tourists now that the resort has officially opened for skiing and snowboarding ...
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Heavenly Resort To Kick Off Ski Season Friday
November 28, 2008 - Heavenly Ski resort will be opening for business tomorrow. Going into its 53rd season, the Tahoe resort says they've put in over 180 hours of snow making in preparation for the big day.
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New Snow Arrives Just in Time for Ski Season
November 28, 2008 - For many, Thanksgiving marks the start of the ski season -- and the weather delivered just in time with some new snow. Going to the resort of Thanksgiving day has become a tradition for many. Some turkey and stuffing and then some snowboarding and skiing on the slopes. Resorts managers are glad for the new snow, since last Thanksgiving there was hardly any snow. FOX 13's Scott McKane has the ...
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Travel: Skiers cope with airlines' bag fees
November 28, 2008 - Skiing was already a costly hobby, and some say they are planning fewer trips.
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Resorts sweeten deals for anxious skiers
November 28, 2008 - Photo: Red River Ski Area opened Wednesday to a crowd of winter sports enthusiasts.
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Resorts expect 4,000 visitors Saturday
November 28, 2008 - The resort community is anticipating that just more than 4,000 visitors will spend Saturday night in hotels and lodges in Steamboat Springs not bad for a Thanksgiving with limited available skiing terrain at the mountain.
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AboutAnywhere.com Celebrates The Early Arrival Of Fresh Powder And Early Opening Days At Popular Ski Resorts
November 28, 2008 - The early snowfall in parts of North America and Europe has provided content for an all too familiar topic - the effects of global warming on our environment. While those endless conversations turn into all out debates, duffel bags are being stuffed with skis, boots, and waterproof outerwear by overanxious skiers heading to the nearest (or farthest) ski resort. AboutAnywhere.com highlights a ...
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Enjoying the first runs of a new ski season
November 28, 2008 - The world simply looks better dressed in white. Especially through ski goggles!
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