Alta, UT – Ski resorts near and far are planning special festivities to celebrate the New Year and entertain holiday week guests, including fireworks, torchlight parades, champagne toasts and family-friendly options. In Utah, Alta Ski Area will host its annual Torchlight Parade. Skiers will start loading the resort’s Collins lift at 5:15 p.m., disembarking at the angle station for the … Continue reading Celebrate New Year’s Eve on the Slopes
Snoqualmie Pass, WA & Sula, MT – Authorities have suspended two searches for skiers reported missing in separate incidents just before Christmas. In Washington State on Snoqualmie Pss, after a week of looking, rescuers on Saturday called off the search-turned-recovery mission for Monty Busbee of Maple Valley. Busbee, 43, never returned from a day of backcountry skiing in … Continue reading Two Skier Searches Suspended
Sula, MT – A search is expected to resume this morning along the Montana-Idaho border for a skier missing at Lost Trail Powder Mountain. The Ravalli County Sheriff’s Office says that a 65-year-old resident of nearby Corvallis, Mont., went skiing at Lost Trail on Tuesday and never returned home. Searchers scoured the area on Wednesday after the … Continue reading Skier Lost at Lost Trail
Avon, CO – Vertical Express for Can Do MS, the only national event series that combines skiing and fundraising to empower people with multiple sclerosis (MS), will kick off February 6, 2016, with seven events across the country located at some of the nation’s top ski resorts. This historical event series, now in its 31st year, supports … Continue reading Ski or Ride to Make a Difference
San Francisco, CA – With snow already blanketing mountaintops across the country, many resorts will be officially open by this week’s Thanksgiving holiday. Online and mobile lift ticket marketplace Liftopia is giving skiers and boarders one more reason to celebrate: this Saturday, Sunday and Cyber Monday, everyone can register to win Liftopia gift credits, anywhere from $10 up … Continue reading Liftopia Gives Away Lift Ticket Dollars to All
Whistler (BC), Canada – Three more western ski resorts have announced season debuts well ahead of their scheduled opening dates. Why not? Everybody else is doing it! In British Columbia, Whistler Blackcomb — the largest ski resort in North America — will be opening one week ahead of schedule on Thursday, November 19. Favorable early season conditions, including … Continue reading Whistler, Tamarack and Kirkwood Join the Early Opening Bandwagon
McCall, ID – Brundage Mountain Resort has improved and expanded The Activity Barn, Valley County, Idaho’s only lift-assisted snow tubing operation, located two miles south of McCall. A new conveyor lift this winter will bring beginner ski lessons and a rail park off the mountain and into town. The new 600-foot Sun Kid conveyor, commonly known as a … Continue reading Brundage Brings Ski Lessons and Rails to Town
