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| Snow Arrives at New Zealand Ski Areas | 24/06, 19:52 |
| Queenstown, New Zealand - Winter has arrived at New Zealand's Southern Alps, deeping snow bases at open ski areas and giving hope to those whose ski seasons have been delayed by unseasonably warm weather. | |
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| Canadian Women Ski Racers Retire | 23/06, 13:00 |
| Calgary, Canada - Following Canadian Allison Forsyth's announcement last week that she was retiring from World Cup-level ski racing, five other Canadian women have decided to pursue other careers and will not return to the national team ski racing programs this winter, Alpine Canada Alpin announced on Friday. | |
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| Summer Skiing in Tignes | 23/06, 13:00 |
| Tignes, France - Since March 1993, the Perce Neige funicular has been transporting summer guests from the heart of Tignes at 2,100m to skiing and snowboarding the foot of the glacier at 3,000m in just seven minutes. This summer isn't any different. | |
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| U.S. Ski Team's Julia Mancuso Summits Kilimanjaro for Charity | 23/06, 13:00 |
| Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania - On Tuesday, June 10, Olympic giant slalom champion Julia Mancuso (Olympic Valley, CA) reached another historical summit in her career - Africa's Mt. Kilimanjaro. Along with World Cup ski racing colleagues Lauren Ross (Stowe, VT) and Chemmy Alcott of Great Britain, she reached the 19,340 foot peak of Africa's highest mountain. | |
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| U.S. Snowboarding's Nate Holland Departs for Afghanistan | 23/06, 13:00 |
| Tahoe City, CA - U.S. Snowboarding athlete and three-time X Games Gold medalist Nate Holland (Squaw Valley, CA) departed Saturday as part of an X Games goodwill tour to visit troops in Qatar and Afghanistan and provide some of America's best with tales from the slopes. | |
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| Dynastar Skis and Lange Ski Boots Open Summer Test Center on Mt. Hood | 23/06, 13:00 |
| Government Camp, OR - Dynastar and Lange are offering another season of summer ski gear testing at Mt. Hood. Stocked with new race products for the 2008-09 season, athletes are welcome to test skis and boots to determine their set up for the upcoming race season at the company's newly opened Summer Test Center. | |
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| Mt. Hutt Keeps Skiing Through Warm Weather | 20/06, 15:05 |
| Methven, New Zealand - With warm, wet weather one day and a freeze the next, only one New Zealand ski area is surviving the early June weather and continuing operations: Mt. Hutt. | |
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| Utah's Alta Ski Area to Celebrate 70 Years | 20/06, 13:00 |
| Alta, UT - Utah's venerable Alta Ski Area will celebrate 70 years of skiing this upcoming season. On October 19, 1938, the Forest Service issued the initial permit to construct a ski lift at Alta to the Salt Lake Winter Sports Association. Alta officially opened as a ski area that December. | |
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| Aspen/Snowmass Skier Visits Near 1.5 Million | 20/06, 13:00 |
| Aspen, CO - Skier and snowboarder visits to Aspen Skiing Company resorts in Colorado were up 1.8 percent from the 2006-07 ski season. The final tally was 1,470,997 visits. | |
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| New Mountain Manager at Maine's Sunday River Ski Resort | 19/06, 21:00 |
| Newry, ME - Boyne Resorts recently announced the hiring of Brent Larson to the position of Mountain Manager at Maine's Sunday River ski resort. Larson was most recently Night Skiing Operations Manager and Snowmaking Supervisor at Boyne Highlands in Michigan, another Boyne Resorts property. | |
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