The leading Colorado ski resort of Copper Mountain is planning to build an indoor training facility for skiers and boarders wishing to learn or improve their technique in the terrain park in a safer, controlled environment.

The proposed facility will include trampolines, bungee systems, synthetic snow ramps and foam crash pits along with professional trainers. The facility would be linked to an outdoor, on snow, progression park with big crash pads.

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The sixth annual West Coast Invitational at Mammoth Mountain, featuring the Village nighttime Rail Jam and Fiesta de la Pipa, takes place May 4th-6th. What started six years ago as a pro demo has blown up into a fiesta grande, complete with extreme snowmobile demos, live hip-hop concerts and snowboarding’s best pipe and rail riders competing for $20,000, all taking place over the course of one weekend. “It is really turning into a complete festival weekend,” says Oren Tanzer, Mammoth’s Director of Youth Action Sports. “It’s the same thing WCI has always been – on steroids.”

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Austria’s Solden ski area is in full-on party mode for the last few weeks of April with the World Pyro Award on Friday followed by the Glacier waterslide contest on Sunday.

The World Pyro Award will be a fireworks spectacular up at the Rettenbach Glacier April 27, 2007 with the most creative “Pyrotechnikers” in the world competing to be crowned the best.

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The Ski Trac is being promoted as an answer to the problem of climate change for ski areas by the Australian designers of the system.

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Melanie C is to star in Ischgl’s season-closing Top of the Mountain concert next weekend, April 29th. Ischgl is delighted to sign up the former Spice Girl as a big name replacement for the less internationally well known Italian star Zucchero, who had to withdraw for personal reasons.

Melanie C – who made her name as Sporty Spice – is hugely popular in Austria and Germany, as well as Britain, and is sure to attract big crowds to the natural concert arena in the snow at the 2320m high Idalp top station at the Tirolean resort.

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Whistler Blackcomb’s season-long search for their “Ullr Girl” ended at the TELUS World Ski & Snowboard’s Playstation Big Air on Saturday April 21 when skier Grete Eliassen was crowned with a Viking helmet befitting a mountain goddess and awarded with a cheque for $25,000. The Minnesota native dominated over a field of 14 skiers and snowboarders in the resort’s girls-only contest based on online votes, a park event, a big mountain event, and an arts and culture presentation.

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Plans for the Coolzone Winterplex in Texas, first announced a year ago, are still progressing with backers, The Bearfire Group, aiming to commence construction by the end of the year with the facility likely to open in late 2008.

The Bearfire Group is raising $375m for the Coolzone Winterplex within the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Possible sites being considered are reported to include a 527 acre location formerly owned by Intel.

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