Marmot opened up its latest chair giving skiers up to 24% more time to ski.

Marmot Basin chairman John Day has officially opened the Jasper, Alberta, ski resort’s newest chair lifts, the six million dollar Paradise high speed quad chair, and the School House triple chair.

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New Zealand to host 6 pre-Olympic world cups

Winter Games NZ today has announced its plans for the 2013 event that will see the Games increase its standing on the international winter sports circuit with the inclusion of no less than six World Cup events.

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Pending approval by the U.S. Forest Service, Vail should have a new gondola in time for its 50th anniversary later this year.

Vail Mountain (www.vail.com), the largest ski resort in the United States, is making plans for its 50th anniversary in December 2012, by announcing the planned installation of a new, state-of-the art gondola to replace the Vista Bahn Express Lift (#16) in Vail Village.

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Gardner is the new president of the Ski Club of Great Britain. Photo courtesy of the BBC.

The Ski Club of Great Britain has elected the BBCís award-winning Security Correspondent Frank Gardner its new president. Continue reading ‘BBC’s Frank Gardner elected new Ski Club president’

Apple has recently reveiled that it uses ski resort names for program development.

It seems the association between technology and skiing seems to get ever stronger. Along with the many uses resorts are currently finding for gps and social networking and Google’s infamous annual company ski holidays, it was recently revealed that Apple has been applying North American ski resort names as internal company code for new operating systems.

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Cairngorm Mountain offering Pathway to Podium racing camps this winter.

Aspiring young ski racers are being offered a new concept in ski race camps this winter at Cairngorm Mountain. The Alpine Training Centre (ATC / www.alpinetrainingcentre.com), run by the British Children’s Alpine Ski Team coach Sean Langmuir, is offering camps for talented young skiers during the school holidays and weekend programmes spanning the winter season. Continue reading ‘‘Pathway to Podium’ junior ski race camps unveiled in Scotland’

Norbert Niederkofler, creator of the Chef’s Cup in the Italian Dolomites is again leading the annual festival from January 22^nd to the 28^th in Alta Badia. Continue reading ‘Alta Badia: Where skiing and culinary meet for annual festival’