Vail, CO - A powerful winter storm blasted the Colorado Rockies and the Vail Valley, dropping 16 inches of fresh powder on Vail Mountain Tuesday and Wednesday. This brings season-to-date snowfall at Vail to six feet at its official mid mountain reporting site, which is nine inches above average. The mid mountain base is two feet, with nearly a three-foot base at the top of the mountain, allowing Vail to grow to 1,431 acres of terrain, 104 trails and 18 lifts on Friday when the Highline Lift (Chair 10) opens for the season along with Wildwood Restaurant at the top of Wildwood Express Lift (Chair 3).
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Salt Lake City, UT - Following a warm Thanksgiving, a more familiar scene for this time of year is being enjoyed skiers and snowboarders at UtahÂ’s ski resorts. Mother Nature dumped over two feet of light, dry six-percent powder this week, enabling ski areas to open additional terrain. The National Weather Service is calling for another chance of light snow Friday. Very cold temperatures have remained in place following the storm’s departure from the state, allowing resorts to continue snowmaking operations.
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Beaver Creek, CO - U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association officials said Wednesday they could not hold additional World Cup ski races in America following cancellations in Europe.
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Lincoln, NH - Warm weather has again pushed back Loon Mountain’s date to open its ski and snowboard season, this time to December 8.
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Squaw Valley, CA - A recent Thanksgiving weekend storm, combined with cold temperatures and extensive snowmaking, will allow Squaw Valley USA to open for skiing and snowboarding with top to bottom skiing tomorrow.
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Keystone, CO - Japan’s Kentaro Minagawa won the first Chevrolet Super Series men’s slalom race of the NorAm Cup ski season with a two-run time of 1:40.80 on Wednesday. Stephane Tissot of France was runnerup in 1:40.98. Both World Cup veterans expect to be competing later this week in the VISA Birds of Prey races at Beaver Creek and were taking advantage of the Keystone races to get some final race training before the World Cup resumes for them; more than 30 Europeans have been racing at Keystone.
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McCall, ID - Nearly 100 people were already lined up when Brundage Mountain loaded its first chair of the 2006-07 ski and snowboard season this morning. With more than two feet of super-cooled powder on the ground just waiting to be enjoyed on opening day, the early morning crowd was not disappointed.
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Keystone, CO - World Cup-bound Michael Janyk of Vancouver continued his early-season success on Thursday with a victory in the slalom to conclude the first stop for the men on the Nor-Am alpine skiing circuit.
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Winter Park, CO - Jessica Kelly of the U.S. was the fastest ski racer in Thursday’s Nor-Am giant slalom at Colorado’s Winter Park. Kelly took the gold in 1:59.09 with Ana Drev of Slovenia second in 1:50.50 while Brigitte Acton of Mont-Tremblant, Quebec followed at 1:59.90.
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Sun Peaks (BC), Canada - This week’s snowfall will allow management at Sun Peaks Resort to open the Burfield Chairlift at 9 a.m. today for skiing and snowboarding. With the Burfield Chair’s season debut, 75 percent of the ski and snowboard terrain at Sun Peaks is now open, with all three mountains in operation.
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