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 The Canadian Freestyle Ski Association has named 50 athletes to its roster for the 2014 season in the lead up to the Sochi Winter Olympic Games. Names include Olympic and World Champion Alex Bilodeau More → Big Names Make Canada’s Sochi-Bound Freestyle Team  Crested Butte has made a dramatic move in the battle for skier days, dropping the cost of a season pass from $1049 to just $599. The pass comes with no blackout dates, but More → Crested Butte Drops Price of Season Pass  Orville A. Slutzky, age 96, the beloved co-founder of Hunter Mountain, N.Y., passed away peacefully on April 18, 2013, in the company of loved ones. Orville was born in Hunter on February 13, 1917 More → Hunter Mourns the Loss of Co-Founder Orville Slutzky  Jackson Hole Mountain Resort (JHMR) is reported that winter 2013 ended with the highest level of skier/rider visits in the resort’s history. The end of season total of approximately 502,222 visits surpasses the previous More → Jackson Hole and Whitefish Break Visitor Records  The earth spins through space at a rate of slightly faster than twenty-four hours per revolution. We are all stuck to its surface by gravity, unable to free ourselves from its surface except by More → Warren Miller on Earth  From his office in the alpine ski resort of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, meteorologist Gilles Brunot is looking out at snow-capped peaks washed with spring sunshine, resplendent under a pale blue sky. Much of northern Europe More → The Alps face a warmer world – bringing huge change  Marielle Thompson dedicated her world championship silver medal to Nik Zoricic on the anniversary of his passing after she finished second in Sunday’s women’s ski cross final in Voss, Norway. The 20-year-old Crystal More → Thompson dedicates world champs silver to Nik Zoricic  The skier’s delight rarely falls in the realm of green renewable eco-friendly holidays, but many resorts are trying to change that image. Some resorts are increasing their recycling, while others are working to have More → The World’s Most Eco-Friendly Ski Resorts  The biggest newspaper in town, circulation 3,119 had headlines today that the interest in snowboarding was starting to fade out. Then they went into a long discussion about why it had become so popular More → Warren on Skis vs Boards  Canada had great success at the ski cross Olympic test event in Sochi, Russia, on Tuesday, winning one gold and two silver medals as Kelsey Serwa and Marielle Thompson finished 1-2 in the women’s More → Serwa, Thompson, Del Bosco shine at Olympic test event |
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