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NEWRY and CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine -- Good things may come to those who wait, but at Sugarloaf and Sunday River this season, the savings will come to those who make haste.

The resorts have announced a new "Early Savings" program that allows guests to save up to $100 on their winter vacations if they book early in the winter season. The program includes three booking deadlines, and the earlier guests book the more money they can save. Guests...

LUDLOW, Vermont -- A perennial favorite with subscribers to ski and snowboard magazines is the reader survey results, published in the October issue of top periodicals. Okemo Mountain Resort earned accolades and high honors with the readers of SKI, Skiing and Transworld Snowboarding magazines.

In its annual Top 50 Reader Resort Survey, SKI named Okemo Mountain Resort one of the top ten resorts in the East, and one of the best in North America ...

FRANCONIA NOTCH, New Hampshire -- SE Group, a mountain and resort planning and design firm serving the ski resort industry for 50 years, will be honored with the New England Ski Museum's Spirit of Skiing Award at the group's 31st Annual Meeting on October 25, 2008 at the Mount Washington Resort in Bretton Woods, NH. The company, originally named Sno-engineering, was founded in Franconia, NH, home of the Ski Museum, and has since become an international pre...

NORTH CREEK - All 20 towers are installed for this season's opening of Gore Mountain's new Burnt Ridge Quad, a high-speed lift servicing the resort's fourth developed peak.

The Burnt Ridge Mountain expansion will introduce skiers and riders to six new trails during the 08/09 season. Burnt Ridge services a vertical of 1432', and increases Gore's total vertical drop to 2300', the 8th greatest in the eastern United States. The expansion also mea...

WINDHAM, New York -- Windham Mountain announced that Columbus Day weekend is Homecoming weekend at the mountain. The second annual Columbus Day weekend meatball contest will be held at the resort from 3-7pm on October 11, 2008. Last year's contest drew dozens of competitors to Windham for a cook-off and a "roll-off" meatball race with prizes for first, second and third place winners. The event was so successful that this year Windham Mountain will accommod...

LUDLOW, Vermont -- The irrational fear of the number 13 is not a common malady nowadays, but a little superstition can give frugal-minded skiers and snowboarders an advantage when it comes to purchasing a season pass at Okemo Mountain Resort. Pre-season rates on all season passes are valid through October 13. After that, all passes go to full price.

They don't call it "Ultra" for nothing.

When it comes to season passes, Okemo's Ul...

LINCOLN, New Hampshire -- Following a record winter, New Hampshire's Loon Mountain has invested over $3 million in improvements this summer that will give skiers and snowboarders even more reasons to visit Loon this winter.

Added to the $13 million invested last year in the first phase of the Loon South Peak expansion project and other on-mountain improvements, this brings Loon's total investment to $16 million over the past two years.
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WARREN, Vermont -- Thirty years ago, freestyle skiing meant moguls, ballet, trees, and big mountain skiing. The term has become skewed of late, referring mostly to terrain parks. This season, Sugarbush Resort in Warren, Vermont informs mogulskiing.net that they are reviving the old definition of freestyle skiing at its Mt. Ellen area. The 2600' vertical mountain (at 4083' elevation, third highest in Vermont) will offer mogul terrain for all abilities, and ...

BURLINGTON, Vermont -- Burton Snowboards and Killington Resort today announced plans to build The Stash?В®, a revolutionary resort run created by Jake Burton and Burton team riders that utilizes the natural terrain, local wood products and organic features to create the ultimate freestyle riding experience. The first run of its kind in New England and Burton's home state of Vermont, The Stash at Killington is slated to open to the public on December 19, ...

WILMINGTON, New York -- The New York Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) has announced that Whiteface, 10 miles from Lake Placid in Wilmington, will host its 17th Annual Oktoberfest, presented by Aubuchon Hardware, on October 4-5 at the ski area.

Oktoberfest activities will include original vendors, arts and crafts, children's rides including the popular hayride, Bavarian food, drink and entertainment.

"We are thrilled ...