Bretton Woods, NH - With the arrival of cold air, New Hampshire’s Bretton Woods ski resort has commenced snowmaking operations, and a top resort official indicated on Wednesday that guests may be skiing and snowboarding sooner than planned.
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Copper Mountain, CO - Copper Mountain last month received approval from Summit County, Colorado officials to move forward with the next stage of the ski resort’s village and base area development. Included in the re-zoning application are 590 units of residential and hotel density, employee and affordable housing, improved parking, transportation and pedestrian flow, perpetual funding for community programs, wetlands and open space creation and construction of a recreation path throughout the resort base area.
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Salt Lake City, UT - With over a decade of event production experience, Mountain Sports International (MSI) is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Freeskiing World Tour (FWT). The largest and longest running competitive Big Mountain Freeskiing tour in the history of the sport, the FWT in 2009 features an unprecedented six stops including a Freeskiing World Tour Qualifier (FWTQ). With $20,000 cash per World Tour stop, the FWT boasts over $100,000 total tour payout.
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Milborne Port, UK - A British technology company has reached across the pond to expand its smart phone trail map service to ski and snowboard resorts in North America.
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Newry, ME - Proving that their announcement of a Halloween debut of the 2008-09 ski and snowboard season was a trick and not a treat after all, Maine’s Sunday River surprised anxious New England skiers and riders by firing up their lifts on Thursday for access to the T2 trail on upper Locke Mountain, a day ahead of schedule.
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Golden, CO The Yeti / Fox Racing Shox factory team released its 2009 roster today and, as expected, the team will continue to be home to some of the best young talent in the sport. Back for this season will be Jared Graves, Sam Blinkensop, and US sensation, Aaron Gwin.
Read on to learn more about the riders,
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One month following the announcement of the three Cross Country riders that will form half of the new World Cup team sponsored by Trek Bicycles, 23 Degrees Sports Management announces today that the downhill half of the new team will also be made up of three riders; two men and a woman. The two men will be Justin Leov (NZL) and Andrew Neethling (RSA), while the top level woman rider will be announced on December 1st.
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Bern, Switzerland - Switzerland’s four-time snowboarding World Cup winner and current freestyle snowboarding World Champion Manuela Pesko surprised her fans Thursday by retiring from the highest levels of competition on the eve of the season’s second World Cup halfpipe contest in Saas-Fee.
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Oury Grips have been around since year dot as you can see by their still popular 80’s retro grip designs. New for 2009 are these new color ways for an ever expanding rider base.
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Bridgton, ME - Shawnee Peak Ski Area in Bridgton is building the largest base lodge expansion in the mountain’s history and preparing new high-efficiency snowmaking guns, both part of the resort’s upgrades for the new ski and snowboard season.
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