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DENVER, Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- This year, Denver will once again be the center of the snow sports universe when the SIA Snow Show, the world's largest snow sports trade show, is staged in the Mile High City, Jan. 26-29. To welcome the show's 19,000 attendees in high style, VISIT DENVER is sponsoring the third annual Mile High SnowFest - a four-day celebration of all things snow, Jan. 25-28.

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ALTOONA, Pa., Jan. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- This winter, The Alleghenies features winter lodging packages for the hardy outdoor enthusiast with family-friendly skiing (downhill and cross-country) and snowshoeing or if the warmth of the indoors is more to your liking an escape to a luxury resort or sports package may be what you're looking for.

"The Alleghenies winter packages encompass the beauty of the outdoors, quaint lodging and the opportu...

Save $20 off a Lift Ticket Monday, Jan. 16

WILMINGTON, N.Y. --- First Tracks returns to Whiteface Mountain, in Wilmington, N.Y., this Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 14-15. This is your chance to carve the day's first turns on the Olympic mountain.

First Tracks is available to the first 14 skiers and riders who are intermediate or above with a valid lift ticket. Participants can register at the mountain's guest services desk and be dr...

4th Annual Downtown Showdown Rail Jam Event

Newry, ME (January 11, 2012)-Sunday River and Sugarloaf resorts will host their 4th annual Downtown Showdown rail jam event in Portland, Maine's Monument Square on Friday, February 3, 2012 from 5:30 p.m. until 7 p.m.

One of the few urban rail jams in the country, the resorts partner with the City of Portland to bring the mountains of Maine to the metropolitan streets in the form of a fiv...

Beginners can learn to ski or ride at Hunter Mountain with an amazing offer in the month of January

Hunter, NY - Hunter Mountain will be participating in the national initiative to encourage people to learn to ski or snowboard in the month of January. Any individual who purchases a Single Pak at Hunter Mountain Sunday through Friday, non-holiday, in the month of January will receive a second Single Pak free! This free Single Pak can be redeeme...

Learn to Ski or Snowboard Free January 7 through January 13, 2012

Bartlett & Pinkham Notch, NH - Attitash Mountain Resort and Wildcat Mountain in New Hampshire join SKI NH and several other ski areas across the nation taking part in the snow sport industries collective campaign to introduce people to winter sports. As a special offer to support January's Learn a Snow Sports Month, both Attitash Mountain Resort and Wildcat Mountain invite "neve...

January 8-13, 2012, kids ski free, stay free, get free rentals and ski/snowboard clinics when parents book two or more nights

Newry, ME (January 3, 2011)-Families looking to save up to 40 percent on their next ski or snowboard vacation needn't look any farther than Sunday River's Children's Festival Week taking place next week, January 8-13, 2012 .

During this annual week-long event, parents who book for two or more nights earn f...

HARPERS FERRY, W.V., Jan. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Appalachian Trail Conservancy's (ATC) Board of Directors has appointed Mark J. Wenger as the new Executive Director who will lead the organization beginning February 2012. Wenger will succeed David N. Startzell, the longest serving Executive Director in the ATC's history.

Wenger is active in the Appalachian Trail (A.T.) community as a life member of both the Tidewater Appalachian...

NORTH CREEK - Gore Mountain offered the only halfpipe currently available in the East at the North Creek Ski Bowl January 1-2, despite the challenging early season weather. The Ski Bowl schedule is concentrated around weekends and holidays; guests should look for that terrain and its adjacent 800' lift-serviced tubing lanes reopening on Friday, January 6.

"Peop...

January 4, 2012, Ellicottville, NY . . . A ribbon cutting ceremony and champagne toast will be held to celebrate the opening of the new SnowPine Quad Chairlift at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, January 7th.

The $650,000 chairlift is Holiday Valley's tenth quad chairlift and was constructed over the summer by the resort's Mountain Crew to replace the existing double chair. The lift is 2,100 feet in length and has a capacity of 1,600 skiers per hour.<...