WATERVILLE VALLEY, New Hampshire -- Waterville Valley Resort has spent over $525,000 this summer on key snowmaking and grooming projects to bring guest's on-mountain winter experience to a higher level for 2007-08. Here's a quick look at the top 8 for 2008.
HANCOCK, Massachusetts -- Jiminy Peak announces employee promotions.
Cathey Kennedy has been named Assistant Director of Snowsports. Kennedy has been part of the Snowsports School at Jiminy Peak since 2003. She is a Level II PSIA instructor and passed her Master Teacher certification last spring. She brings a vast knowledge of the sport and instructing to her new positition. Kennedy is a resident of Averill Park, NY.
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HANCOCK, Massachusetts -- The Annual Jiminy Peak Fall Festival will take place on Columbus Day weekend, Saturday, Sunday and Monday October 6, 7 and 8, 2007. The Fall Festival features a craft fair, the Hancock Fire Department ski and snowboard sale, an outdoor barbeque and job fair. Mountain Sports by Potter Brother's will have sales on apparel and equipment throughout the weekend. The Just Jiminy logo store will also be open throughout the weekend. Turbi...
HANCOCK, Massachusetts -- Jiminy Peak is proud to announce that the resort was rated #5 in North America for Family Programs by Ski Magazine readers. This was the highest ranking ever for the resort. Jiminy earned honors in 9 other categories, a record in Jiminy Peak's history.
Jiminy's rankings compared to approximately 115 other Eastern resorts are:
HANCOCK, Massachusetts -- Jiminy Peak will be honored on Friday, September 28th as a recipient of a "Green Pioneer" award at the AltWheels Alternative Transportation & Energy Festival at City Hall Plaza in Boston, MA. Joseph O'Donnell, CEO of Boston Culinary Group and 50% owner of Jiminy Peak, will be on hand to receive the award from Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino and NPR correspondent Christopher Lyden.
The AltWheels Green Pioneer awards reco...
WEST DOVER, Vermont -- The 2007 Iron Horse Downhill Series, presented by e.thirteen had barely wrapped up the awards ceremony in Mount Snow's main base area last Sunday, and all the athletes wanted to talk about was how exciting 2008 was going to be with the increased level of participation and two additional races.
Over 1,000 event registrations occurred during the series, which consisted of four weekends of downhill racing and three weekend...
VERNON, New Jersey -- For the past seven years, Mountain Creek and the Vernon PAL have joined forces to help fund youth and family programs though an annual Season Pass sale, raising over $100,000 to date. This year, the goal is to raise $50,000 in support of the many PAL programs for Vernon youth.
Mountain Creek and the Vernon PAL are pleased to offer the local community reduced prices on their 2007/2008 Season Passes through this fundraiser...
NEWRY, Maine and BOSTON, Massachusetts -- The final home series of the regular season versus the Minnesota Twins is being sponsored by Maine's Sunday River Ski Resort and attendees of Thursday night's game will each be offered a free ticket courtesy of the Resort. Approximately 35,000 lift tickets will be distributed.
Boyne USA Resorts, based in Michigan, recently added Sunday River and two additional New England resorts to their nationwide ...
LUDLOW, Vermont -- In its annual Top 50 Reader Resort Survey, SKI magazine named Okemo Mountain Resort one of the top ten resorts in the East, and one of the best in North America for grooming and terrain parks. Ranked tenth in the East, the popular southern Vermont resort also made the top-ten list in eight of the Reader Resort Survey's categories: snow, grooming, lifts, service, weather, on-mountain food, family programs and terrain parks.
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LAKE PLACID, New York -- The New York Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA) continues the celebration of fall with the 7th Annual Flaming Leaves Festival at the Olympic Jumping Complex October 6-7, from 10 am ??“ 5 pm daily.
This blues, brews and barbeques-themed festival features a ski jumping competition, pony rides, face painting, vendors, live entertainment, a silent auction and more. New this year is a 60-foot inflatable obst...