Crud2Mud is the meeting point between winter and summer sports.

Whistler Blackcomb’s Crud 2 Mud race is back this year to celebrate the “transition season” mixing the end of the ski and snowboard season with the start of the bike season.

The event will be staged this Saturday May 22nd, four years after the last Crud 2 Mud race was staged at the resort.

In teams or individually, Crud 2 Mud competitors ski or snowboard from the top of Whistler Mountain to the bottom of the snow line, where bikes and equipment lie waiting. Ski and snowboard boots ditched, competitors clip into bike pedals and race through the Whistler Mountain Bike Park (on a yet to be determined trail).

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Liberty Mountain in Lynchburg, Virginia, USA.

Virginia’s Liberty Mountain hosted the end of season Dew Games in April, attracting one of the largest crowds since the year-round ski slope opened back in 2009.

The Snowflex Centre at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia hosted a crowd of over 3,000, according to organizers.

The ski and snowboard big air and rail jam competition was sponsored by Mountain Dew, Pepsi, AMP and FUSE Marketing and included more than 60 participants who competed for US$5,000 in cash prizes.

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Dutch Snowboarder Nicolien Sauerbreij had a second triumphant home coming to the Netherlands at the end of the season last month.

Nicolien who won the country’s first ever Alpine sports gold medal in snowboarding at the Vancouver Olympics returned to celebrate her win at SnowWorld Zoetermeer where she had carried out a lot of her training.

Hundreds of Dutch Winter Sports fans were there to honour Nicolien who reported she was very happy with all the attention.

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Woodward at copper indoor camp.

Skier Kelly Armintrout has been randomly picked as the winner of an all inclusive week-long summer ski camp at Woodward at Copper.

Woodward at Copper, deep in the heart of the Colorado Rockies, is the first indoor/outdoor ski and snowboard camp on the planet with a focus on terrain park and pipe progression.

The 20,000 sq ft Woodward at Copper Barn gives campers access to Snowflex® jumps, foam pits, a spring floor, fly-bed trampolines and indoor skateboard features.

Facebook contest winner Armintrout has decided to come during session #6, July 18 – 24, which is also K2 Ski and Snowboard week with Andy Mahre, JT Holmes, Seth Morrison, Celia Miller, and Gretchen Bleiler.

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Lesley McKenna waving the flag high above Laax's superpipe at The Snozone British Halfpipe Championships.

Laax ski resort says it received over a million visitors from 38 different countries this winter, making this season one of the Swiss resort’s most successful to date.

The resort’s reputation amongst freestylers and snowboards from the UK continues to grow. Its celebrated rocksresort apartment complex also got the best “New Ski Resort” accolade from Wallpaper magazine in early 2010.

Then Jamie Nicolls from Bradford set the bar high for young snow sport enthusiasts at this year’s British Snowboarding Championship (BRITS). A haul of gold medals brought his total up to 101 – not bad for a 16-year old from Bradford.

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Lake Wanaka ski area in New Zealand.

Lake Wanaka ski fields in New Zealand will take centre stage this summer when several international ski and snowboard events roll in for the southern hemisphere’s winter season.

Young snowboarders and skiers from across the world will descend on Wanaka in August for the 2010 FIS Snowboard & Freestyle Junior World Championships.

This is the first time an FIS World Championship will be staged in New Zealand, and also marks the first time snowboarding and freestyle skiing will share the same stage in a World Championship, the event is to be staged at all three Wanaka ski fields of Cardrona, Snow Park NZ and Treble Cone

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A lone boarder at the Vans Dawn of the Shred.

Earlier this month the Vans team hit the Scottish mountains for the fourth year to host the legendary ‘Dawn of the Shred’ competition.

By 9am the roster was pretty full with over 50 riders signed up to compete as well as some big names from the UK scene including Jamie Nichols, Scott McMorris and Amie Fuller.

On the mountain the third kicker was huge and as the riders warmed up some were brave enough to hit it and the heights they reached were enormous.

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