Starlight Children’s Foundation is hosting the Starlight Stüblchase ski Weekend Challenge in Saalbach Hinterglemm, one of Austria’s largest ski resorts, in February.
The Stüblchase involves attempting to visit as many of the 46 mountain restaurants and huts in the vast 200km (125 mile) ski domain as possible in just one day. The event will take place from the 3rd to the 7th February 2007 and all the money raised will go towards brightening the lives of Starlight’s seriously ill children.
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Intrawest has announced it has begun the process of purchasing Steamboat ski resort in Colorado from the American Skiing Company. Intrawest, which was recently acquired by a large investment company, now owns 11 ski resorts in North America including its flagship Whistler. It is working on new developments in Europe following an initial resort at Les Arcs, a second under construction in Flaine and other venues under consideration reported to include a site near Verbier in Switzerland.
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The Canyons Resort at Park City, Utah has made over $10 million worth of improvements and new features both on the mountain and within the resort in an on going effort to raise the bar of the ski vacation experience.
Brand new this season, The Canyons will be opening 200+ acres serviced by a state of the art quad lift named DreamCatcher which will deliver skiers and boarders to pristine trails in new, never skied before Canyon’s territory. The additional acreage positions The Canyons as the largest in Utah and one of the largest ski resorts in North America.
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The Freestyle Skiing World Cup rolls in to Les Contamines in France next month with skiercross and half pipe events from the 12th to 14th January.
The event will see the international competition debut of the new Contas half pipe which will be built to international standards. The pipe measures 120 metres long and has walls that are 5½ metres high.
Regular freestyle enthusiasts who prefer to stay on a ski run will have a field day at the Xzones. These are two games areas in the ski area featuring skicross courses, table jumps, big air jumps and a super pipe, where the most daring skiers will find fulfilment.
To enable those who are passionate about these new forms of skiing to have a grandstand view, the resort is offering a three-day all-inclusive package at €152 per person. A price which includes VIP access to the competition areas.
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The cumulative alpine snowfall for the winter season in Whistler is now approaching a whopping 20 feet (six metres), following the resort’s snowiest November on record. This is more than half the resort’s normal seasonal average of 1005 centimetres (33 feet) of snow annually, and thanks to the glaciers, Whistler’s season typically continues in to July.
Whistler Blackcomb’s snow base of 220cm (87 inches), includes skiing on terrain now accessed by the newly-opened Symphony Express chairlift.
The new lift, accessing 1,000 acres of pristine alpine bowls and gladed sub-alpine forest filled with thigh deep snow, began operating on Saturday.
Coming in at a cool $9.2 million, the new Doppelmayr lift transports guests 6,929 feet (2,112 metres) and climbs 1,670 vertical feet (509 vertical metres) to the peak of Piccolo at 6,673 feet (2,034 metres). Panoramic views of Garibaldi Provincial Park and views across to Blackcomb Mountain are available from the summit.
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Aspen Skiing Company (ASC) has announced that it will partner with the Bonneville Environmental Foundation to sell 100 percent Green-e certified SkiGreen Tags to resort guests who wish to offset their travel-related global warming emissions to and from the resort with wind energy. SkiGreen Tags can be added to a season pass for $20, or guests can purchase a single day SkiGreen Tag with each lift ticket for $2.
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SNO!zone, who operate three of the UK’s four indoor real snow slopes have raised £1500 for children’s charity Childline.by auctioning a ‘White Christmas’ on eBay.
On Christmas Eve, the auction winner – 6949 stuarts - will take delivery of 10 tonnes of real snow which will be distributed around their property. They will also receive a fabulously decorated Christmas tree, a wreath to put on their front door, Christmas lights for their home and a snowman. Also provided will be the obligatory hamper of mince pies!
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