Vonn's SI cover: Sexist or not?
Source: The Denver Post
Not just because she's attractive, but because of the power and beauty the image projects. Set in her downhill tuck position, with the snow, mountains and setting sun, Vonn is an athletic vision.
Practical Traveler - Getting Back to Family Values
Source: The New York Times
HOPING that this ski season will be better than last year's, resorts around the country are banking on families to help them bounce back, with many offering new programs and après-ski activities designed specifically with children in mind.
Marijuana Moves Into the Open in a Ski Town
Source: The New York Times
High-altitude partying is a deeply carved tradition in ski country, where alcohol in the open and illicit drugs in the shadows have been intertwined for years.
Vermont 3-10-09 Peter Macdonald 465 Packersfalls rd Lee NH 03824 603-659-6217 Do we know the people around us? My wife and I went to Okemo ski area on Sunday so she could ski with friends on Monday.
I went with some friends to Allegany State Park riding snowmobiles on Friday. The conditions were outstanding.
Well, we were tooling right along having a great winter-lots of snowmobiling, the ski areas had made their annual projections by January 15th, people riding snowmbiles were riding from home instead of trailering to area far north that had snow. Then DISASTER hit.
Swiss skier Albrecht awakens from coma
Source: Universal Sports
Swiss skier Daniel Albrecht woke up from an induced coma, three weeks after crashing during a downhill training run. Albrecht's condition has improved significantly over the past 24 hours, the Innsbruck University hospital said in a statement Thursday.
Gunman: 'If You're Not A Christian You're Going To Die'
Source: Denver News, Denver, Colorado News, Weather, and Sports - KMGH Denver's Channel 7
BOULDER, Colo. -- A 24-year-old ski lift operator who fatally shot the general manager of the Eldora ski area was determined to kill co-workers who weren't Christian, according to court records obtained Thursday.
Sexy snowboards get chilly reception
Source: msnbc.com
Emblazoned with Playboy models from the 1970s and garish images of self-mutilation, two edgy new lines of snowboards have many hot under the collar despite winter's chill.
Skier Left Dangling Half-Naked On Vail Lift
Source: Denver News, Denver, Colorado News, Weather, and Sports - KMGH Denver's Channel 7
What a way to start the New Year. A lift mishap left a skier at Vail hanging from the lift, half naked.
Police hunt hit-and-run skier in Italy after girl sees father killed
Source: Guardian Unlimited
Police in the Italian Alps are checking ski passes, viewing security videos and questioning holidaymakers in the hunt for a mystery skier who came down the slopes too fast on Christmas morning and collided with a man, 51, leaving him dying from a head injury in front of his 12-ye …
Skiers trapped as Canada gondola collapses
Source: The Times
More than 50 people have been evacuated from a gondola at Whistler ski resort in Canada after a tower supporting the cables partially collapsed last night. One of the gondola cars hit a bus shelter, while two more were left dangling when the tower collapsed.
Burton co-founders defend snowboards in Burlington, Vermont
Source: Burlington Free Press
Burton co-founders defend snowboardsBurton Snowboards co-founders Jake and Donna Carpenter said Monday that reaction to a controversial line of snowboards has been overblown and defended the company's support of women.
The First Snow Has Arrived!
Source: cannonmt.com
The First Snow Has Arrived! The first snow of the season landed on Cannon and Mt. Lafayette on Friday, Oct. 3rd...winter will be here before you know it!
Hidden Valley to close, owner says
Source: The St Louis Post Dispatch
Hidden Valley applied for a permit to build a snow tubing area and parking lot to accommodate it. Wildwood's planning and zoning commission last week told the resort it would need to pay a $252,000 fee to expand and build more parking.
Being Bode: Young Man of the Mountain
Source: nhmagazine.com
Here's what you might think you know about 2008 World Cup ski champion Bode Miller: the Franconia, New Hampshire, native grew up in the woods with kerosene lamps and an outhouse, went to school only occasionally, and was raised by wolves.
Aspen Mountain Re-Opening for June Skiing
Source: Denver News, Denver, Colorado News, Weather, and Sports - KMGH Denver's Channel 7
Skiing and riding will be open from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the Ajax Express chairlift through June 15. Seeder's Note: Everyone in Colorado is used to A Basin being open through June and, once, until August. But for Aspen Mountain to re-open is huge. Sweet.
Denver TSA modeling airport security after ski lanes
Source: KUSA-TV
The Transportation Security Administration In Denver says it is adopting an experimental security lane system that labels lanes like Colorado ski runs. Creating separate lanes for categories such as Families, Expert Travelers and Special Needs.
WCSN.com: News
Source: WCSN
Austrian skier Matthias Lanzinger was in a stable condition on Tuesday after undergoing an emergency amputation of his lower left leg. Watch video attached, Warning it is a little graphic.