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| Cannon Mountain Breaks Ground for New Mittersill Double Chairlift | 21/08/2010 15:00 |
| Franconia Notch, NH - New Hampshire Governor John Lynch yesterday broke ground for the new Mittersill double chairlift to culminate the lengthy process that will integrate Cannon Mountain ski area and Mittersill, the historic New Hampshire ski area adjacent to Cannon that has been closed since the 1980s. |
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| Ski Resort Reservations On a Roll, Defying Economic Indicators | 21/08/2010 14:00 |
| Denver, CO - While the U.S. economy remains unstable with declines in major indicators including continued high unemployment rates and flat retail and real estate sales, the overall travel industry continues to rebound. Mountain destinations across the western U.S. participating in the Mountain Travel Research Program (MTRiP) experienced sharp increases in July occupancy as well as increases in the advance reservations outlook for the next few months. |
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| Biggest Ski Resort Improvements in North America This Season Taking Place at The Canyons | 21/08/2010 12:52 |
by Gina Bégin
Park City, UT - In addition to a rebranding with the fifth new name in its history -- now just "Canyons" -- new owner Talisker Mountain Inc. this week unveiled a new state-of-the-art chairlift, a realigned direct-connect gondola, expanded terrain and vastly improved snowmaking capabilities in preparation for the 2010-11 ski season at the Park City-area ski resort. These changes quantify the most improvements to any ski resort in North America this year. |
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| Olympic Medalist Skier Bill Demong Among Tour of Utah Riders | 19/08/2010 14:00 |
| Salt Lake City, UT - 2010 Olympic nordic combined skiing gold and silver medalist Billy Demong will be spending time in the saddle as he competes on Team Cole Sport in the 2010 Tour of Utah bike race. After Tuesday's prologue and Wednesday's Stage 1, Demong sits eight minutes and 32 seconds behind the leader, Briton Alex Dowsett of Team Livestrong, Lance Armstrong's Development Team. |
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| Junior Worlds Making History | 19/08/2010 13:00 |
| Lake Wanaka, New Zealand - The 2010 Snowboard and Freestyle Junior World Championships are only days away with opening ceremonies taking place this Friday. The event, scheduled for August 21-31 in New Zealand, will be the first time that snowboarding and freestyle skiing are performing on the same stage in a World Championship event. It will also be the first time slopestyle will be included in a FIS Championship level event. |
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| Aspen Gets Air Travel Reprieve for One More Ski Season | 19/08/2010 12:00 |
| Aspen, CO - Less than a month after announcing its intention to pull out of Aspen in September, leaving only one United Airlines serving the Colorado ski resort, Frontier Airlines on Wednesday reversed course and indicated that it will fly into Aspen for one more winter. |
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| Acton Retiring from Canadian Ski Team | 19/08/2010 11:00 |
| Mont-Tremblant (QC), Canada - Two-time Olympian Brigitte Acton of Mont-Tremblant is retiring from the Canadian Alpine Ski Team, team officials announced this week. |
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