Aspen/Snowmass Hosts Snow Angels
Aspen/Snowmass and Gretchen Bleiler will host the first Snow Angels Invitational during the 7th Annual Bud Light Spring Jam, March 22-25.
Continue Reading Add comment November 21st, 2006
Snow Angels Visit Aspen
Aspen/Snowmass announced that Gretchen Bleiler will host the first Snow Angels Invitational this spring.
Tommy Moe Signs New Deal
Jackson Hole Mountain Resort has signed a new multi-year deal with former Olympian Tommy Moe. As ambassador to the resort, Moe will now offer private and corporate ski sessions.
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Go Time At Los Lenas
By now the crew--big-mountain skiers Lynsey Dyer and Jess McMillan, photographer Gabe Rogel, and friends Eric Seymour and Pete Leitton--is safely back in Jackson Hole while I remain in Argentina roaming the streets of Buenos Aires like a common stray dog, and trying, mind you, to avoid their shit on the street. I much prefer walking, skipping, skiing--“avoiding dog dung, what-have-you"--on snow. I miss Lenas, where we ended the month-long road-trip adventure that took us to five resorts in Chile and Argentina traveling via our rental Kia Mystery Bus.
Continue Reading 1 comment October 16th, 2006
Sending It To The Top Of The World
GRAND TARGHEE RESORT, Wyoming – Sending it seems natural to freeskier Jess McMillan.
It’s what she used to do as a kid, it’s what she did all season and it’s what she did here last spring as the fog began to clear to unveil the fresh powder. There she goes, sending it off a cornice, stomping it and arcing it to the bottom of the chairlift. Freeskiers are known to “send it,” “point it,” and “toss it” off cliffs as they “kill it” during a run. In McMillan’s world, she likes to send it, preferring to “straightline it” but will happily “huck it” to prove a point. It’s all about splashing a stellar line.
Continue Reading Add comment August 16th, 2006
All The Disciplines Of Dynastar
The Montenvers restaurant -- a mythical place that overhangs the " Sea of Ice " -- set the scene for a charged celebration of the Dynastar's champions from all disciplines: Legendary Kjetil Andre Aamodt, Jo Chenal, JP Vidal, L. Alphand, G. Chicherit, A. Ducroz, S. Wescott, the De Le Rue brothers (Xavier and Polo) , Loic Collomb-Patton - the rising Newschool star who shined at the X-Games and US Open, Half Pipe World Champion Mathias Wexcsteen , Antoine Diet - " prince of the backcountry ", as well as Stéphane Brosse and Patrick Blanc , Ski Mountaineering World Champions.
Continue Reading Add comment July 30th, 2006
TELUS Founder Sells To Whistler
Maybe it only seems like skiing and snowboarding are a pretext for the even better things in life like pounding one down to rock and roll. For eleven years at Whistler Blackcomb, the TELUS World Ski & Snowboard Festival has turned that notion into an art form, and now founder Doug Perry has sold out his 25 percent stake to Tourism Whistler and Whistler Blackcombwww.whistler2007.com. The deal got done July 21, 2006.
Continue Reading Add comment July 28th, 2006
Bode’s At HEAD Of The Class
Bode Miller is hoping all his equipment problems from the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy, are behind him with a new endorsement deal with HEAD skis.
Miller thus joins Caroline Lalive of the United States, Patrick Staudacher of Italy, Marco Buechel of Liechtenstein, Maria Riesch of Germany, and Johann Grugger and Christine Sponring of Austria on the HEAD alpine racing team coached by former Austrian HEAD alpine ski racing team member Rainer Salzgeber.
Continue Reading Add comment July 26th, 2006
Mancuso Renews It With Rossignol
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CALIFORNIA (Post Time News)--Rossignol is not about to let Julie Mancuso get away.
The Rossignol Group in Huntington Beach, California, announced the Olympic Giant Slalom (GS) gold medalist has inked a two-year sponsorship deal that includes Rossignol bindings and skis and Lange boots. Mancuso, 22, lives in Lake Tahoe California.
Continue Reading Add comment July 13th, 2006