Sentences with phrase «more skiers»

The sites have created additional places to spend the night, often at an affordable price, bringing more skiers to the slopes.

We began collaborating with more and more skiers, bringing in Ruedi Flück to help us launch a similar platform for skiing and snowboard magazine, while maintaining one of Switzerland's most dynamic online winter sports platforms.

I see more skiers on roller skates than on skis; last winter many of the ski slopes in the area were closed.

Howelesen Hill Ski Area holds a unique place in the history of skiing, sending more skiers to intern...

«If you get a rain on snow event or just get less snow in general, it's hard to attract more skiers,» Elizabeth Burakowski, a postdoctoral researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said.

If resorts no longer have the money to upgrade their lift capacity every year the way some people buy cars, they may have to improve the customer experience in other ways — for example, by limiting the number of tickets sold on any one day and steering more skiers to make mid-week reservations when the slopes are wide open.

Not exact matches

On the other hand, a step - in system might attract more older people and women to snowboarding, especially from the ranks of experienced skiers, thus sending the sport's growth rate even higher.

And while the locale's namesake now houses the Canadian Film Centre, residents prefer more active hobbies: 16.7 % are regular downhill skiers.

Hirscher remains the No. 1 - ranked alpine skier in the world after a dominant 2015 that saw him win his fifth World Cup title, with eight more victories and 10 other podium finishes, to go with his four world championships.

Clustered around Kerrisdale Arena and Point Grey Secondary School, the residents here are craft beer enthusiasts (16 % of them drank one in the past month) and more than a fifth are downhill skiers.

The most recent rulings from the IOC came at the end of December and banned 11 more athletes: Luge competitors Tatiana Ivanova and Albert Demchenko; speed skaters Ivan Skobrev and Artem Kuznetcov; cross-country skiers Nikita Kryukov, Alexander Bessmertnykh, and Natalia Matveeva; bobsledders Liudmila Udobkina and Maxim Belugin; and ice hockey players Tatiana Burina and Anna Shchukina.

Protect Our Winters, a group that includes celebrity skiers and mountain resorts, is targeting four states in the mid-term congressional elections, hoping to elect more climate - friendly lawmakers.

Let's assume for a minute that your argument about the skiers is logical, which it is not, these skiers are not certain they won't fall, they are simply more certain that they can avoid that possibility better and that when it does happen they can recover faster — I was amazed at some of the recoveries I saw in the games.

Appearing hardier and more informal than their modern counterparts, skiers were loaded on logging trucks at the station and taken to various slopes in the area.

The world's most explosive slalom skier, Alberto Tomba, hopes to blast his way to two more gold medals in Albertville

More than 200 city - dwelling skiers in Metropolitan N.Y. Ski Council championship here.

The 77 - time PGA Tour winner said he was more at ease in jeans and a t - shirt but he attended the glam affair to help his Olympics skier lady friend market a new perfume and makeup line.

Miller was fast when he won the overall World Cup title in 2005 and then again in 2008, and fast when he won more career World Cup races (32) than any U.S. skier of either gender.

This year the skier will find more inventive ski equipment than ever for better safety and performance

Down the skier hurtles, across two miles or more of shattering bumps and curves.

(I think of what the late BASE - skier Shane McConkey says in a documentary about his dangerous passion: «I'm not afraid of death, I'm more afraid of not living fully.»

With a planned total feature count of 14, Mount Snow will offer skiers and riders more variety than anywhere else in the East, with additional features to be added as terrain expands with snowmaking.

«In widening this green circle trail by 35 feet, we will be making it a more inviting place for beginner skiers looking to explore the mountain from the summit, as well as those looking to access our Carinthia Base Area.»

With previous studies showing that higher temperatures, caused by global warming, have led to more unstable mountain rocks — the scientists, who took part in the new study, believe that using the two monitoring techniques together could prove vital for thousands of skiers and mountain climbers who undertake trips every year.

The Sør - Trøndelag county woman is known to have a strong upper body with bigger and more visible muscles than most other female cross-country skiers.

«These findings suggest there is a dose - response relationship: the more races skiers complete and the faster they go, the greater their risk of subsequently developing arrhythmia,» said Dr Andersen.

After adjusting for age, education and occupation, there was a 29 % increased risk of AF among skiers completing five or more races compared to those completing only one; there was a 20 % higher incidence of AF for those with the fastest finishing times compared to the slowest, although this finding was not statistically significant.

Be it snow on a slope that can sit there for days before being sent descending by an overambitious skier or bonds in macromolecules that change dramatically upon appropriate activation — systems that reside for extended periods of times in one state before switching rapidly to another, energetically more favourable one are found in many different contexts.

Doctors still refer to gamekeeper's thumb more than skier's thumb, even though schussers presumably outnumber bunny snuffers these days.

Eero Mantyranta, a Finnish cross-country skier who won two gold medals in the 1964 Olympics, was born with a mutation in the erythropoietin receptor gene that allows his blood to carry significantly more oxygen than the average person's [source: McCrory].

I have worked with professional football players and Olympic skiers who follow this diet style; obviously, they need lots more seeds and nuts, and other food too.

When working with skiers on dry land training, access to a gym is rare, and this forced Adam to find more innovative methods.

I am no stranger to Lake Tahoe, but I know the bars and casinos much more than I know the slopes — so needless to say I was a slightly intimidated to ski with a crew of seasoned skiers.

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No one has a stronger and more recognizable voice in Hollywood, and the opening, in which Molly describes her short - lived career as an almost Olympic skier with exhaustive and exacting detail while barely stopping to take a breath, has all the hallmarks.

This is usually only a good idea for more experienced skiers as the beginner runs are usually found lower down the mountain where the snow can be wet and slushy in these months, if there is any snow at all at that time.

Frank Beddor had already had a couple of intense careers, a professional skier (two - time freestyle world champion) and filmmaker (producer of the 1998 hit There's Something About Mary) before deciding to become an... (more)

More than 80 dogs rescued from a South Korean dog meat farm by HSI arrived in Canada to find forever homes — including Beemo, being adopted by U.S. Olympic freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy.

What's more, you and your dog can learn to locate tornado survivors, missing skiers and drowning victims too.

SEOUL — Straight from the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, U.S. freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy joined the animal rescue team from Humane Society International at a dog meat farm in Gyeonggi - do province where the charity is working to save the more than 80 dogs from slaughter.

Olympic skier Gus Kenworthy has been doing more than just skiing in Sochi, he's also been receiving some positive press for his foreign relations breakthroughs.

Shorter skis are more manoeuvrable at slower speeds hence better for beginner skiers.

The mountains are taller, steeper and more jagged than other mountain ranges in Colorado, making the ski area next to the town particularly attractive to expert skiers and riders.

Used most often by middle school athletes and the neighboring community, the loop features 5.6 kilometers easy enough for beginners to enjoy and yet challenging enough to entertain more advanced skiers.

According to new research commissioned by Post Office Insurance more than one third (36 %) of the 4,544 of British skiers asked have sustained an injury on the slopes.

At Kicking Horse Mountain Resort, the Eagle Express Gondola shuttles skiers and boarders to the top of the Dogtooth Range in the Purcell Mountains in a more than 4000 vertical foot butterflies - in - the - stomach ascent.

The challenge: The run down from the Schilthorn, more than 1300 metres vertical of relentlessly jaw - dropping scenery and contrasting terrain is the reason many skiers of all standards swear by Murren and return year after year.

Beginners will appreciate a softer, more comfortable boot while advanced skiers prefer a higher flex meaning more of the energy is transferred directly to the bindings and the skis.

More than one third of British skiers have sustained an injury on the slopes.

When he quit racing, he started exploring Lake Louise more than he had in the past, and realized that Lake Louise along with Sunshine Village and Mt. Norquay make the Bow Valley the ultimate destination for skiers and riders of all abilities.