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| Preparation Key to Avoiding Skiing and Snowboarding Injuries (Current Ski News) | 02/10, 7:00 |
| New York, NY - Downhill skiing continues to be one of America's favorite winter pastimes, attracting nearly 20 million participants to the snowy slopes each year. Snowboarding is gaining popularity too, as recent reports found more than eight million Americans participate in the sport each year. Yet, along with the excitement of a day on the slopes, alpine skiers and snowboarders face numerous health risks associated with these activities, which are considered among the most physically demanding of all sports. | |
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| Ski Vermont Launches 3 Pass Sales (Current Ski News) | 02/10, 7:00 |
| Montpelier, VT - Ski Vermont, the marketing association for the state's ski and snowboard industry, on Wednesday began selling a limited number of its multi-day, multi-resort 3 Pass lift tickets. | |
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| Transferrable Sun Valley Ski Passes Now on Sale (Current Ski News) | 02/10, 7:00 |
| Ketchum, ID - The Sun Valley/Ketchum CVB and the Sun Valley Resort have partnered once again to offer transferrable ski passes to local employers. | |
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| Canadian Ski Jumper Joins Lawsuit Against Olympic Organizing Committee (Current Ski News) | 02/10, 7:00 |
| Vancouver, Canada - Top Canadian ski jumper Zoya Lynch has become the 10th plaintiff in a lawsuit filed last May in the British Columbia Supreme Court seeking that women ski jumpers have the same Olympic opportunities as male ski jumpers, according to spokesperson and Women's Ski Jumping-USA President Deedee Corradini. | |
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| State cuts back Belleayre lifts, ups daily prices (Skiing News) | 02/10, 4:51 |
Belleayre Ski Mountain will be open seven days a week this season, but with fewer lifts and runs and higher daily lift ticket prices. | |
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| Avalanche Days 2008 (PisteHors.com) | 02/10, 1:51 |
| The French National Association for the Study of Snow and Avalanches is going on the road again with its series of 1 day conferences on snow safety. From November to January the ?Avalanche Days? will visit Lyon, Annecy, Romans and Nice. | |
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| Solo Skier Dies In Rocky Mountain National Park (Skiing News) | 02/10, 0:00 |
Rocky Mountain National Park officials say a 40-year-old Boulder man died after a skiing accident on Taylor Glacier.Park officials say the man was alone when the accident happened on Tuesday, but few details ... | |
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| Belleayre Mountain Ski Center Confirms Operational Cutbacks (Current Ski News) | 01/10, 21:29 |
| Highmount, NY - As New York State agencies tighten their budget strings in a period of increasing economic uncertainty, state-operated Belleayre Mountain Ski Center has confimed that it will restrict operations for the 2008-09 ski and snowboard season. | |
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| Man Dies Skiing in Colorado (Current Ski News) | 01/10, 21:17 |
| Rocky Mountain National Park, CO - Colorado's first skier death of the season occurred on Tuesday, when a 40 year-old Boulder, Colo. man died skiing on Taylor Glacier in Rocky Mountain National Park. | |
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| Aspen biz leaders bullish on ski season so far (Skiing News) | 01/10, 19:21 |
The nation's economic turmoil hasn't soured expectations for a solid winter among Aspen business leaders. | |
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