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CARRABASSETT VALLEY, ME (March 29, 2012)-With access to three of New England's premier resorts, the New England Pass is the season pass of choice for Eastern skiers and riders. Now there's another reason to switch to a New England Pass: When you purchase a 2012-2013 New England Pass in full, you can use it to ski for the rest of this season.

Despite last week's record heat, Sugarloaf , Sunday River , and Loon Mountain continued with snowmaking...

New Aerial Adventure Park is scheduled to be completed in July

Challenge yourself to new heights, literally! Combining elements of a zip line, canopy tour and challenge course, this will be the latest aerial adventure park in Vermont. As you work your way through the canopy, from platform to platform and tree to tree, over bridges of rope, wood and wire, you'll be safe in yo...

9th Annual Wildcat Mountain Marathon Skiing & Riding Event Participants Raise Over $90,000

Pinkham Notch, NH - A total of 20 skiers and riders registered and accepted the challenge to conquer over 100,000 vertical feet in a single day on Monday, March 12th to benefit Make-A-Wish Foundation of New Hampshire. Weather for the event was ideal for the field of male & female, young & old, and ski & snowboard participants to push themselves to compl...

Lincoln, NH, April 1, 2012 -Loon Mountain is offering specially-priced $49 one-day lift tickets to anyone who presents their 2011-2012 season pass from any other resort or ski area for the remainder of this season.

Loon made snow earlier this week to freshen up the conditions and carry the season into April. This is the latest the Resort has made snow, demonstrating its commitment to provide a great product into April during a season when many...

Festival to feature eight bands and the return of the Friday night "Reggae Rave," outdoors on the Beach

CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine (March 19, 2012) - Sugarloaf's Bud Light Reggae Festival, the annual spring party that draws thousands of spring skiing and reggae enthusiasts to the mountains of Maine, returns for the 24th year April 12-15, 2011 with eight bands and a the return of the popular "Reggae Rave."

The Reggae Rave, first in...

Simon Dumont to host and showcase some of the country's best professional and amateur freeskiing athletes

Newry, Maine (March 20, 2012)-X Games gold medalist and world record holder Simon Dumont will host his fourth annual Dumont Cup at his hometown mountain, Sunday River, in Newry, Maine, on March 23-24, 2012. Dumont, along with seven professional freeski athletes, will mentor and compete with amateur skiers on a slopestyle course located in ...

WASHINGTON, March 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product.

Name of product: Snowboard Bindings

Units: About 200

March 19, 2012 (Jay, VT)- The World Cup is coming to Jay Peak. The Resort today announced that three of the eight teams competing in the IIHF Women's World Hockey Championship being held in Burlington will be using Jay Peak's Ice Haus arena as their practice facility. Canada, Sweden and Slovakia will be at the resort as they prepare for the championship tournament scheduled for April.

"Jay Peak offers us an opportunity to train in an uninterru...

West Dover, VT (March 20, 2012) - The mild weather may be a bit early this year but skiers, riders and party goers alike won't be complaining this weekend, March 23-25, at Mount Snow's Bud Light Reggaefest where island music will fill the air and crazy events will keep the crowds entertained both Saturday and Sunday. This annual event traditionally draws thousands of people to the Souther...

West Dover, VT (March 18, 2012) - Mount Snow Resort hosted the 5th Annual Carinthia Open with more than 110 professional and amateur skiers and riders taking on a slopestyle course in The Gulch; one of the eight terrain parks at Mount Snow's Carinthia which is the only all freestyle terrain mountain face in the East. Top amateurs went home with armloads of prizes from event sponsors and to...