Sentences with phrase «turoa ski areas»

The highest summit he's snowboarded: «Just over 13,000 feet above sea level, outside of Iran's Dizan ski area.

March tends to be a snowy month in many ski areas, benefiting avid athletes looking for powder, Sherman said, while novices will find resort snow - making operations allow for friendly slope conditions even late into the spring.

Rudy DeFelice, head of new market opportunities at Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, located just outside Yosemite, says outdoor adventure activities are replacing golf and country clubs as the venue of choice for young deal makers and business leaders.

The company says the money will go towards replacing a chairlift, renovating and expanding its summit chalet, creating five new glades ski areas, renovating its restaurant at the base of the mountain, and adding new snow guns.

Lori is actively involved in the Boise community having served on the Bogus Basin Ski Area board of directors for 10 years, several YMCA committees and as president of Les Bois United — a premier all girls soccer club.

Jan 04,2016... GETTING THERE: AS the map on the following pages shows, no ski area in the world is more easily acce...

GETTING THERE: AS the map on the following pages shows, no ski area in the world is more easily accessible to so many people.

After the Olympics everybody will want to try the Tyrol's newest ski area at Lizum, 18 miles from Innsbruck, built in a dramatic rock - walled cul - de-sac for the women's downhill and the men's and women's slaloms.

Lee - Gartner grew up skiing at the tiny Red Mountain ski area in British Columbia, the same little hill that produced the Canadian heroine Nancy Greene, who also won an Olympic gold medal in France (in the giant slalom at Grenoble in 1968).

Ski area president Roland Palmedo has a special trick for making Gl √ ºhwein, the mulled red wine which is a popular drink at many U.S. ski centers.

Bode began training at Bretton Woods, another ski area, and, because he allegedly missed a gate, was disqualified from a race by his Cannon coaches, leaving him ineligible for the 1990 Junior Olympics.

Ritzo recalled Bode's talent and arranged for virtually a full scholarship at CVA, a private school at the base of the Sugarloaf ski area with an emphasis on winter sports.

In fact, Val Gardena may be the only ski area in the world where the communities all have at least two names, which adds a dash of confused charm to the scene.

From there, we will ski the largest ski area on earth, a territory known as Les Trois Vallees («The Three Valleys»).

Now, more than two centuries later, we have the wonder of the Trois Vallèes ski area, whose 40,000 acres stretch away so far below us that they seem to be half the size of Antarctica.

Located in Vermont's Green Mountains, the town boasts several ski areas — although none quite as treacherous as those in the Rockies — and ample opportunities for cross country skiing, snowshoeing, and other winter activities.

They are drawn to the town's four ski areas, the downtown strip of high - end boutiques, and a community that has become known most recently as a foodie haven.

Mount Snow also promotes and institutes other safety programs from the National Ski Areas Association including Smart Style terrain park safety.

Barnes will assume the role formerly held by Kelly Pawlak, who recently accepted the position of president and CEO of the National Ski Areas Association.

My parents divorced when I was ten, so my time was split between the seaside town in Massachusetts where I was raised in by my mother, and the ski slopes of Stratton Mountain in Vermont, where my dad had moved to build trail - side vacation homes and to help develop a ski area out a tree - filled mountainside.

See our favourite cross-country ski areas and check out downhill ski areas in the GTA.

Plenty of ski areas have extended hours during March Break and special deals, like the two - for - one package at Scenic Caves in Collingwood.

Mount Snow has one of the most colorful and interesting histories of any resort in the ski industry thanks in large part to our visionary founder and National Ski Areas Association Hall of Fame member, Walter Schoenknecht.

The head of the state GOP slammed Cuomo for directing the cash - strapped MTA to bail out three upstate ski areas with a $ 4.9 million check.

At the governor's request, the cash - strapped MTA last year wrote a $ 4.9 million check to help bail out three upstate ski areas that were hurting from warm weather.

The Cockaigne Ski Area in Cherry Creek plans to re-open for the ski season next year.

[49] A small ski resort, Thunder Ridge Ski Area, with 30 trails and three lifts is located in the town of Patterson.

The developers of the Adirondack Club and Resort project developers and caretakers of the Big Tupper Ski Area say they plan to open up the currently dormant ski mountain at the start of the 2018 season.

... Recognizing the devastating impact the climate crisis will have on snow, the turn these ski areas are making toward solutions brings us all hope.»

Climate Reality Project CEO Ken Berlin said in the press release from Cuomo's office that the «I Am Snow» program «is proud to partner with the [ORDA]- managed ski areas.

At the Nov. 9 town board meeting, Councilwoman Katie Nightingale provided the public with copies of a yet - to - be-signed agreement between the town and ORDA, which operates the Gore Mountain Ski Area.

Local ski areas are experiencing a much better start to the season than last year, when record low snowfall occurred.

In announcing the opening of the state - owned Gore and Whiteface ski centers, Cuomo also noted New York, with more than four dozen, has more ski areas than any other state.

The Town of Johnsburg and the Olympic Region Development Authority (ORDA) have been talking about the use of property at the Ski Bowl Park to create summer operations in the Gore Mountain ski area.

Eliot Spitzer to discuss those issues, with the result being a September, 2007 «Agreement in Principle» (AIP) that cut the overall size of the resort proposal, eschewing the Big Indian portion, and committed it to a tie - in with an expanded state - owned Belleayre Mountain ski area.

It would keep young skiers safer and is backed by Ski Areas of NY Inc., a trade group representing ski resort operators, its supporters say.

ALBANY — The head of the state GOP slammed Gov. Cuomo on Monday for directing the cash - strapped MTA to bail out three upstate ski areas with a $ 4.9 million check.

The National Ski Areas Association recommends kids wear helmets while skiiing or snowboarding, saying helmets can reduce the risk of head injuries by 30 to 50 percent.

Martens is also chairman of the Olympic Regional Development Authority, which operates the winter Olympic venues in Lake Placid and Wilmington and Gore Mountain Ski Area in Johnsburg.

The News reported Monday that the MTA owed the money to the state but was told by the Cuomo administration to send the check in March 2016 directly to the Olympic Regional Development Authority, which operates Belleayre, Gore and Whiteface ski areas.

While snowmaking allows some downhill ski areas to compensate for decreasing snow totals, sports such as cross-country skiing and snowmobiling are incredibly vulnerable to these trends since artificial snow is not used for these open courses.

That would be a boon for ski areas in the Northern Rockies, which have been languishing due to warm temperatures and very little snow.

Care to take a guess why ski areas make such great venues for Spartan Races?

Still we had a wonderful afternoon in the skiing area Corviglia, strolled around, enjoyed the view and had a mulled wine.

Before I could board the gondola at Rosa Khutor, a ski area that is part of Sochi, the site of next year... This was Russia.

Upcoming events at Afton Alps Ski Area 02/17/18 — Chair Lift Speed Dating — Find Your Love on the Lift.

Snowboxx - The Ultimate Winter Festival - takes place from the 17th - 24th March 2018 in Europes biggest and best ski area.

The Grand Massif, linked ski area Flaine, Les Carroz.

A skier gets ready to plunge down Alta Ski Area's extreme run, Eddie's High Nowhere.

6 Below: Miracle on the Mountain tells LeMarque's story of being lost in that mountain range for eight days, unable to contact anyone or to find his way back to the safety of the ski area's resort.