STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, COLORADO (Post Time News)—Are mountain towns going down even as real estate prices go up?
The experience of two towns in Colorado—Aspen and Steamboat Springs—paint a picture of a life cycle for towns of increasing popularity that grows more vexing and expensive at every step.
Continue Reading Add comment September 30th, 2007
DENVER, COLORADO (Post Time News)-- Specialty Sports Venture (SSV) has become an even bigger player in ski rentals and retailing.
SSV, a joint-venture majority-owned by Vail Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: MTN), announced that it entered into an agreement to acquire 18 Breeze Ski Rental shops at locations throughout Colorado, Utah and California for $6.5 million. SSV now has 145 shops in Colorado, Utah, and California, with more growth a distinct possibility.
Continue Reading Add comment June 24th, 2007
COPPER MOUNTAIN, COLORADO (Post Time News)--Colorado Ski Country USA (CSCUSA) announced at the organization's 44th Annual Meeting and Forum here that its 26 member resorts hosted more than 12.56 million skier visits--and set a new skier visit record for the second consecutive year in the process.
In all, CSCUSA said Colorado accounts for 23 percent of the domestic ski business. But the trade group also reported Colorado visits increased just 30,000 skier visits over last season.
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PARK CITY, UTAH (Post Time News)–Come up to the Utah Olympic Park this summer and you just might transcend the boundaries between mountains and water with some of the best female coaches and the finest facilities in the country.
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Patrick O’Donnell, former president of Aspen Skiing Company, was presented with the first Mountain Travel Industry Achievement Award at Whistler Resort during a session of Mountain Travel Symposium’s (MTS) 32nd annual meeting.
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Silverton Mountain will host Sisters in the Steeps Weekend on April 28-29. This two-day extravaganza is for women who share a common passion for spending time in the mountains. Warning: There will be no hand holding, coom-bi-ya singing, crying, or feeling talks. Rather an informal meeting of female minds while skiing and snowboarding some of the best terrain in the U.S.
Continue Reading Add comment April 13th, 2007
The final stop of the Subaru U.S. Freeskiing Series finished Saturday with an exciting day of skiing on the permanently closed “Cirque” at Kirkwood Mountain Resort, Calif. Kirkwood local Craig Garbiel came out on top of the stacked international men’s division and Laura Ogden of Crystal Mountain, Wash., took her second straight Subaru North American Freeskiing Championships women’s title.
Continue Reading Add comment April 1st, 2007
Bretton Woods director of skiing, two-time Olympic Silver medallist and 2005 FIS World Cup Champion Bode Miller, looks forward to his return home to New Hampshire after competing on the World Cup tour. To celebrate its own local hero, The Mount Washington Resort is hosting BodeFest 2007, presented by HEAD USA.
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TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA (Post Time News) – Aspen Skiing Company, host to the World Cup ski circuit, notified in a letter to paper giant Kimberly-Clark that it has removed the company's tissue products from all Aspen ski mountains, hotels, restaurants. The company also removed all references to the "Kleenex Corner" ski run on Aspen Mountain, which has been in place for over 40 years. The decision comes following discussions between the ski resort company and Greenpeace about Kimberly-Clark, manufacturer of Kleenex branded products, and their refusal to end pulp purchases from destructive logging operations in Canada's Boreal Forest.
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A giant clock at the Vancouver Art Gallery will be unveiled during a free public outdoor celebration at 12 p.m. Monday, Feb. 12, to mark the three-year countdown to the beginning of the 2010 Winter Games.
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