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BOSTON, Massachusetts -- The Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) today launched a new version of AMC White Mountain Guide Online, a web-based community and subscription service based on the 100th anniversary edition AMC White Mountain Guide. This new edition, the only comprehensive online guide to over 500 trails in the White Mountains of New Hampshire and Maine, was developed based on feedback from its subscribers and offers added functionality that allows us...

HIGHMOUNT, New York -- Senator John Bonacic visited Belleayre Mountain on Wednesday, September 17th where toured the new Belleayre Adaptive Snowsports Center construction site with Superintendent Tony Lanza and the head of the Belleayre Adaptive Snowsports Program, Bettie Rae Liskom. Construction of the new Adaptive Snowsports Center is being funded with money provided to Belleayre by Senator Bonacic and the New York State Senate. The new Adaptive Snowspor...

ALBANY, New York -- As the warm summer months begin to "trail" off, the Capital Region will gear up for the return of the longest-running consumer snow and travel show, the 47th annual Times Union Ski & Snowboard Expo, November 7 ??“ 9.

The expo, presented by Alpin Haus, will bring the latest and greatest in winter sports trends to the Empire State Plaza Convention Center, offering fans a sneak "peak" at the 2008 winter sports season.

NEW HARTFORD, Connecticut -- Ski Sundown hosts its 3rd Annual Brewers' Fest at the mountain on Saturday, September 27, 2008 from 4pm to 8pm.

This year's tasting experience will include a wide variety of breweries and brewpubs from Connecticut and beyond including Berkshire Brewer Co., Cambridge House Brew Pub, The Hartford Better Beer Co., Cottrell Brewing Co., Barrington Brewery, John Harvard's Brew House, Thomas Hooker Brewery, The Boston Be...

WARREN, Vermont -- Sugarbush Resort's quest to be the #1 resort in the East just got a lot closer. In Ski Magazine's annual "Top 50 Resort Guide," on newsstands September 22nd, Sugarbush ranks third overall in the East in the magazine's poll of the best resorts on the continent. This is the highest ranking ever received by Sugarbush and marks a steady upward trend for the resort. In another first, Sugarbush was ranked #1 for terrain variety by the readers ...

LUDLOW, Vermont -- Searching for that lost shaker of salt or finding that cheeseburger in paradise is going to get a lot easier when Okemo Mountain Resort hosts their second annual end-of-summer Parrotthead Party on Saturday, October 11. Following a performance by J-san and the Analogue Sons, a Jimmy Buffett tribute band, Changes in Latitudes, will perform, rain or shine, at Okemo's Jackson Gore Inn. There will be booze in the blender to render some frozen...

EAST BURKE, Vermont -- Burke Mountain's 2nd Annual music festival was again successful this year, with $2,500 being raised for the Kingdom Kids Association and 1,335 festival goers enjoying a lively day of music in sunny, mid-summer like conditions.

The festival featured Tempe, Arizona's the Gin Blossoms, a Grammy nominated band who served up all of their big hits including "Hey Jealousy", "Allison Road", "Found Out About You", "Til I Hear It...

LAKE PLACID, New York -- Whiteface Mountain continues to ride a wave of consistency in recent years as it, once again, received high marks from SKI Magazine readers in the publication's annual survey.

The ski and ride area located in Wilmington, N.Y. was ranked fourth in the eastern United States by SKI's 6,000 respondents, and fifth in eastern North America. The information was collected by an independent research firm and will appear in SKI'...

EAST BURKE, Vermont -- Burke Mountain announced today that Grace Potter, lead singer of the Vermont-based band Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, returns to Burke Mountain for a live, solo, one-night-only performance at the Tamarack Grill on Saturday, October 4th.

A year after Grace's astonishingly soulful and passionate vocals launched a crowd of 2,200 concert goers into an absolute frenzy at the inaugural Burke Mountain Music Festival in Septe...

NEWRY, Maine -- Sunday River will host the 9th Annual North American Wife Carrying Championships on Saturday, October 11 as part of the resort's annual Fall Festival weekend.

The Wife Carrying competition features couples navigating a 278-yard obstacle course while the man is literally "carrying" the woman. Women are allowed to carry men as well, which occurred for the first time in 2005. The teams do not have to comprise of married couples, ...