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WEST DOVER, Vermont -- Mount Snow offered its earliest lift service opening in history this Saturday when the Discovery Shuttle lift loaded its first passenger at 9:30a.m. The early opening also made Mount Snow the first and only resort open in Vermont. The Launch Pad trail was filled with a dozen terrain park features and over 700 skiers and riders in attendance throughout the weekend.

Lift tickets were sold for $10 or 10 non-perishable food...

SNOWSHOE, West Virginia -- It seems as though we just bid adieu to summer, but winter has already arrived at Snowshoe Mountain Resort. The West Virginia ski area had 1.5" of snowfall this weekend, and flurries continued into Sunday morning. The resort also fired up the snow guns for the first time this season, complimenting Mother Nature's efforts with its region's-best snowmaking equipment.

Snowshoe is often the first resort in the mid-Atlant...

MOUNT WASHINGTON, New Hampshire -- Scientific research on 6288-foot Mount Washington shows few climatic warming trends, but greater levels of air pollution than that found at surrounding lower elevations, according to recent papers published in the scientific journals, Arctic, Antarctic, and Alpine Research and Atmospheric Environment.

In the peer-reviewed papers, researchers from the Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC), the Mount Washington Obser...

LUDLOW, Vermont -- An early-bird sales deadline had Okemo Mountain Resort skiers and snowboarders scrambling to purchase their 2009/2010 season passes before rates went up after Columbus Day. As a result, year-to-date season pass sales are at an all-time high, breaking all previous early-bird sales figures - in units sold and in revenues.

"Okemo is up more than 11 percent in the sale of season passes," says VP of Marketing and Sales Scott Clar...

WEST DOVER, Vermont -- Mount Snow fired up nine of its state of the art fan guns on the Launch Pad Learning Area Wednesday night. With night time temperatures in the 20's the window of snowmaking is available to attempt an opening with lift service on Saturday morning.

The plan is for the Discovery Lift to run from 10am-4p both Saturday and Sunday and the trail will have a smattering...

NEWRY, Maine -- For the past two years Sunday River has been the first resort in the East to open, doing so on Halloween both times, and today, they're staking the claim once more opening a full 13 days before Halloween and every other East Coast ski area out there. Sunday River will offer free skiing and riding this afternoon until 3:30 p.m.

Sunday River received three inches of natural snow yesterday, October 13, and has used this and the co...

MOUNT SNOW, Vermont -- Carinthia, New England's only all park mountain face, was given recognition this year in October's edition of Transworld SNOWboarding. A reader's poll voted Mount Snow #1 Resort on the east, #1 Terrain Park on the east, and #2 half-pipe on the east. Big Boulder, another Peak Resorts mountain, also made it into the top 5 list of parks on the east at number four.

Other accolades awarded to Carinthia was #1 in the east as v...

CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine -- With leaves still on most of the trees, Sugarloaf received its first significant snowstorm of the 2009/10 season, with 6-7 inches of new snow piling up at the summit. Snow began falling during the overnight hours and continued throughout much of the day, with temperatures hovering in the mid to upper twenties throughout the day.

"It's been snowing all day long and has actually started to get pretty deep up near ...

NORTH CONWAY, New Hampshire -- Cranmore Mountain, located in the heart of North Conway Village , New Hampshire, today announced it would be making significant investments in its snowmaking equipment with the addition of 80 new energy-efficient tower snow guns.

The new equipment represents an almost 80% increase in the resort's inventory of snow tower guns. Not only will the new guns produce more snow more quickly, they'll also require far less...

ALBANY, New York -- One of the nation's longest-running consumer snow and travel shows will return for a remarkable 48tt consecutive year to launch the winter sports season beginning Friday, November 6 through Sunday, November 8 at the Empire State Plaza Convention Center in Albany, N.Y.

This year's Ski & Snowboard expo, presented by Alpin Haus, offers unprecedented values for winter sports enthusiasts, including the return of last year's inau...