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A season pass to Colorado's Monarch Mountain includes 20 other ski resorts as well. (photo: Monarch Mountain/Jeff Nass)



Cold La Nina winter forecast for BC and Alberta
CBC.ca
Beginning of Story Content A US weather forecasting company is predicting a very cold winter for BC and Alberta this winter, but it is far from clear if that means more or less snow for West Coast ski resorts. "This winter could be one of the top three ...
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Intrawest's CEO sees flurry of activity, hiring for resort operator
Denver Post
... frosted-glass meeting rooms named after its resorts — is a nod to both Intrawest's urban roots and today's ski vacation mission. A sort of office within the office hosts Intrawest's venerableCanadian Mountain Holiday helicopter-skiing operation. ...
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21 Ski Resorts, One Season Pass
First Tracks
Online Media Monarch, CO -Colorado's Monarch Mountain ski area has added three more resorts to its list of season pass partners: Telluride and Ski Cooper in Colorado and Ski Apache in New Mexico. All three are now offering free skiing and riding to ...
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First Tracks
Happiness at Sun Peaks is lots of snow
BCLocalNews
He noted Sun Peaks is the closest Interior ski resort to both big cities and, past the community of Hope, there are only a couple of stoplights and a four-lane highway to travel. Though the value of theCanadian dollar in recent weeks has been bouncing ...
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New president hopes to streamline operations at US heli ski association
ESPN
... a handful of America's top heli-skiing operators are on a mission to standardize one of the nation's most radical industries, which surprisingly remains unregulated. While most ski resorts lease public land and must abide by government-imposed ...
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'Just say no' won't cut it
Idaho Mountain Express and Guide
Many visitors to the company's six major ski areas in Colorado and California come from the United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico and Brazil. Sun Valley is the grand dame of North American ski resortsand the birthplace of the chairlift, yet international ...
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Easy Math: Canadian Heliskiing for Maximum Powder Value
Ski Channel
Admittedly, we conveniently omitted extra vertical charges – some Canadian heli-skiing operators include unlimited vertical, some charge over 100000 vertical. Extra vertical is optional, that's my story and I'm sticking with it. In any case, the Resort ...
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Bargain hunter's alert: Blue Mountain condo prices have fallen
yourhome.ca
Condo owners will have access to more than just skiing, including Treetop Trekking, zip lining, golf, an adventure park and more. TOWN OF BLUE MOUTAINS—There are mountains of bargains at Blue Mountain Ski Resort with condo prices on the resale market ...
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Freshtival Begins Tomorrow
Newschoolers
The ninth annual Freshtival, Canada's Premiere Ski Film Festival, begins tomorrow in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and will showcase the 10 most anticipated ski movies of 2011 at Calgary's Uptown Theatre from Thursday, October 13th – Saturday, October 15th. ...
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Ski resorts welcome predictions of cold winter
The Province
By Frank Luba, The Province; With Postmedia News October 11, 2011 Skiers and boarders conduct some testing on Blackcomb Glacier last week in advance ofWhistler Blackcomb's expected opening next month. - Get your parka, boots and gloves ready for this ...
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Ontario Snow Resorts Earn Sustainable Tourism Award
Benzinga (press release)
Bruce Haynes, President of Ontario Snow Resorts Association accepted the award on behalf of the Ontario ski areas that participated in the success of the program and on behalf of the program's delivery partners, including My Sustainable Canada who ...
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Prestige features 11 new Canada 'experience' breaks in new winter brochure
Focus on Travel News
Prices start from £2720 per person based on twin share including: seven nights full board, use of allresort amenities, transfers to the resort, helicopter transfers to the mountains each day, powder skisand safety equipment. ...
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Former Alberta coal town emerges as a breathtaking golf destination
STLtoday.com
Besides lying within their respective national parks, the Banff Springs and Jasper Park Lodge courses can lay claim to a long list of awards (Jasper Park Lodge is considered Canada's finestresort course) and famous clientele, from celebrities to ...
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Vail's Gorsuches named to Colorado Business Hall of Fame
Vail Daily News
Raymond T. Duncan has successfully drilled and produced oil and gas throughout the Rocky Mountain Region, Midwest, the Gulf Coast and Canada with his company, Duncan Oil, Inc. Duncan also founded Durango Ski Corporation and Purgatory Ski Resort in 1965 ...
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WARREN'S WORLD: Early Days of Filmmaking
Flathead Beacon
If your script called for “deep powder at Sun Valley,” and you happened to ski on a sunny day, don't despair. Just write me for a free catalog of stock 8 or 16mm black and white, taken at all majorresorts. In 1957 there were no small, portable, ...
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Sun Peaks is more than just a family affair
Troy Media Corporation
Photo courtesy of Sun Peaks Resort/Adam Stein Greene, who, along with her husband, Al Raine, call this village home, are very active within this epic snow destination and make themselves available to take guests out for a ski almost daily. ...
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Big brands are lining up to harness the clout of online moms
Toronto Star
That doesn't include the freebies, ranging from green cleaning products to family trips to Smuggler's Notch ski resort in Vermont. On Thursday, the 39-year-old mother of two will stand up to share her business tips at Blissdom Canada, ...
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Images: Photo Contest Finalists
Chicago Daily Herald
Recently went to Canada where we spent the day at Kicking Horse Ski Resort in Golden Canada. No better way to enjoy a cup of coffee or watch the clouds. I was at the Springbrook Nature Center in Itasca taking a few nature shots when I noticed the ...
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Town defends railroad
The Adirondack Daily Enterprise
Tom Lawson, developer of the Adirondack Club and Resort, a large-scale development planned for the Big Tupper Ski Area, said he doesn't understand why no one has done a full feasibility study on creating a trail alongside an improved railroad, ...
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WB 'excited' at calls for another La Niña winter
Whistler Question
Environment Canada senior climatologist David Phillips told the CBC that — at least for lower elevation areas like Vancouver and Victoria — last year's La Niña winter resulted in average temperatures and snowfall a bit below average. ...
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Tourism in full bloom after damage
Albany Times Union
(AP Photo/Toby Talbot) Resort areas are hoping for a flood of a different kind this Columbus Day weekend: tourists who will spend money and help fuel the recovery from last month's storms. And it looks like they will get their wish. ...
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RFID News Roundup
RFID Journal
Mammoth Mountain, a ski resort in California, has kicked off a five-year enhancement plan this winter season that includes what it claims is the largest RFID gate system for ski resorts in North America. The resort installed a total of 68 RFID gates ...
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Big Data in the Dirt (and the Cloud)
New York Times (blog)
At first they called the company WeatherBill, and used the data to sell insurance to businesses that depended heavily on the weather, from ski resorts and miniature golf courses to house painters and farmers. It did pretty well, raising more than $50 ...
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Written by Staff
Gazette Virginian
He joined them first as a temporary replacement for Lew DeWitt, after DeWitt heard him singing at aski resort and recommended him. Following an audition in Nashville, Fortune was contacted by the Statler Brothers and performed his first show with them ...
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The Leading Hotels of the World Introduces Unique Christmas Experiences
DigitalJournal.com (press release)
Sometimes he comes on a motorbike, sometimes on water skis – and sometimes he makes an especially grand entrance on a catamaran all decorated for Christmas. Once he reaches the resorton December 25, whatever the conveyance, he makes his way to the ...
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She ain't heavy, she's my wife
Enterprise News
Michael Maloney and his fiancée Johnna Powell-Maloney of North Easton have also signed up for the competition being held at the Sunday River Ski Resort event on Saturday, Oct. 8. They say they love bizarre contests. They got engaged during an ...
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Pat Murphy, published Coral Gables newspapers
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
The airport serves busy ski-resort areas and is slated to expand, she said. Murphy also sometimes filled in on the copy desk, "on condition that he had an hour off to take his dogs for a walk in the afternoon.'' In addition to his wife, daughter Patti, ...
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Winter activities recommended for Alberta visitors
Opodo
Alberta also offers plenty to interest winter sports enthusiasts, with six major alpine ski resortsencompassing thousands of hectares of powder and boasting fresh snowfall almost every day during the winter. Those looking for more unconventional ...
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'Reamde' is First-Rate Second-Rate Stuff
PopMatters
It's teased out that he's the black sheep for having bolted to Canada to avoid the draft. While up there, he started a business in cross-border marijuana smuggling, and then settled into a nice life running a ski resort built with those proceeds. ...
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PopMatters
City looks for signs of improvement
Penticton Western
Amenities included the city's four ice rinks, one curling rink, the Trans Canada Trail, three art galleries, the Penticton Race Track, White Lake Observatory, three tennis courts, the research station and Apex Ski Resort. ...
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Janyk, Saarinen and Zeidler declare council runs
Whistler Question
According to Saarinen, Whistler's status as a world class resort is in question, something that he personally feels for having worked as a carpenter and construction operator back in Whistler's early days. “I literally built the steps to the town ...
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When we travel, we're dumb, but not this dumb
Grand River Sachem
Just last winter I had friends go to the Swiss Alps where they had to line up at the ski lifts without space heaters. Oh, where is the humanity!?! “On my holiday to Goa in India, I was disgusted to find that almost every restaurant served curry. ...
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An Eastbournian Abroad with Ashley McMillan: Ghost town? Not quite yet ...
Eastbourne Today
During this weekend, they will sell off thousands of pieces of winter clothing, apparel (such as goggles, gloves, hats, etc) and of course, the main winter toys such as skis and boards. There will be huge discounts to be had and the huge tented stage ...
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The Big Drops of Canada -
By HAROLDHARGER
Canada offers incredible skiing for this upcoming new year, 2012. Renowned for wilderness as well as luxury resort comforts, everyone can find their ski spot. In general Canada has six regions that provide the best natural landscapes for fun ...
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Winter sports: Skiing in Canada - Telegraph
Sunshine Village is 10 miles from Banff but because of its elevation, with some of the highest skiingin Canada, it takes a little longer to get to the slopes proper, ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Winter-sports-Skiing-in-Canada.html
Ski and Stay | Revelstoke Mountain Resort | British Columbia, Canada
Book your vacation in this Canadian winter paradise. ... Revelstoke Mountain Resort · Selkirk Tangiers Heli Skiing · Resort Real Estate. Search. Contact Us Book ...
www.revelstokemountainresort.com/.../ski-and-stay
The Big Drops of Canada | Webmaster Articles
Put rush in terms of adrenaline and speed to your skis and check out the biggest drops. Canada is well known for these drops as the mountainous terrain ...
webmasterarticles.net/the-big-drops-of-canada/
Snowboarding instructor Job - ASHBURN - Dagmar Resort Job Id ...
English, Write English Recreational Concentration: Skiing - alpine, Snowboarding Type of Clients: All... with others Other Information: Canadian Ski Instructors ...
www.wowjobs.ca/.../Snowboarding+instructor-dagmar+resort-...
Game On!!!! First resort skiing in N.A. - Backcountry Skiing ...
Backcountry Skiing Canada is your resource for information on ski touring powder in the West Kootenays, British Columbia and Canada. Find out where the best ...
backcountryskiingcanada.com/forums/?page_id=3/...
5 Popular Après-Snowboarding Activities - Skiing - Zimbio
skiing guide for ski and snow enthusiasts to share news about ski resorts, post ... Most USA andCanadian ski resorts are fairly quiet places at night but there are ...
www.zimbio.com/.../5+Popular+Apr+Snowboarding+Activitie...
Increased Air Service & New ... - Resorts of the Canadian Rockies
Home to Western Canada's finest year round resorts including Lake Louise, Fernie ... “No hassle, NEW Non-stop flights, and closest airport to skiing in Canada, ...
www.skircr.com/mediaCentre/pr_detail.asp?id=688
ski touring Canada/USA: Latest, snowHeads ski forum
We did some amazing things in Canada last year - stayed in Banff, skied ... Discussion board, skiclub forum, snowboarding, off piste skiing. ... If you've only got 10 days then you probably wantresorts you can shuttle between in the evening. ...
snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?p=1869319
International Ski Resorts | Ski Australia | Ski New Zealand | Ski ...
Ski Resorts, Package Deals, Accommodation, Travel Guide and Online Bookings for worldwide skiand snowboard destinations in Canada, USA, Europe, ... The sport of skiing is said to have originated in Austria's Tyrolean region, so where ...
www.skitravelcompany.com.au/ski/Europe
Common Questions | Selkirk Tangiers Heli Skiing | British Columbia ...
If you are a strong intermediate skier in a regular ski area you should be able to adapt to deep powder snow skiing. You may also be interested in a Cat/Heli ...
www.selkirk-tangiers.com/your-experience/common-questions
Skiing at the Big White Resort...
Skiing at the Big White Resort. The planet renowned Huge White resort in Canada is residence to a few of the nation's biggest skiing. Famous for its large top ...
www.madridantirracista.net/.../Skiing-at-the-Big-White-Resort

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