The French national parks have been getting tough on skiers found in nature reserves. This winter a dragnet in the Plan de Tuèda nature reserve above Méribel netted off piste skiers, snow shoers and ski tourers. All banned from the area. Anyone...
The skier visits at North American resorts reached 59.1 million for the 2018-19 winter season, up nearly 11 percent compared to the 2017-18 total of 53.3 million visits. It ranks as the fourth most total visits since National Ski Areas Association...
Tuckerman Ravine is a seasonal spring passage for many Eastern skiers. On spring weekends with good weather, hundreds — sometimes thousands — of skiers flock to Mount Washington, New Hampshire. This famous backcountry area has some of the steepest...
Vail Resorts, Inc. has closed on its acquisition of the ski field leases and related infrastructure at Falls Creek Alpine Resort and Hotham Alpine Resort in Victoria, Australia. The closing price was approximately AU$179 million (approximately...
The Colorado Avalanche Information Center reported a historic sized slide near Aspen this past weekend. Colorado has been receiving heavy snowfall causing extreme avalanche conditions. The avalanche’s crown was over a kilometer wide and ran...
Colorado gets snowfall and historic extreme avalanches and more snow is in the forecast for this weekend. The good news is Vail Mountain is reporting 10 inches of new, heavy, wet snow Thursday morning, for a 280-inch seasonal total, while Beaver...
