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LAKE PLACID, New York -- The survey is complete and the numbers are in as resorts prepare for the 2007-08 winter season.

According to a record-setting 7,000 readers of SKI Magazine, Whiteface, in Wilmington, accompanied by nearby Lake Placid, ranks second among resorts in the eastern United States and third in eastern North America. The survey was conducted by an independent research firm. On average, the respondents skied 23 days last winter...

NORTH CONWAY, New Hampshire -- After months of ghoulish planning and conniving, the fiends and goblins have worked their magic and the haunted summit mountaintop tour at Cranmore Mountain in North Conway, NH is ready to open. Starting Friday, October 5, daring visitors can walk the grounds and take the chairlift to the summit of the mountain for the fright of their lives.

The tour starts in the Eating House building at the base of Cranmore Mou...

CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine -- Sugarloaf, Maine's tallest skiable peak and home of New England's only lift serviced above treeline skiing and riding, has embarked upon the resort's largest single-season capital expansion in more than a decade. Sugarloaf enters the 2007/2008 winter season with greater snowmaking capacity, enhanced grooming, facility upgrades, and a new learning surface lift. The $4 million investment also includes a new public transit system...

LUDLOW, Vermont -- As summer acquiesces to autumn, Okemo Mountain Resort staff members are already turning their thoughts to winter. Optimism for an especially snowy season is running high with everyone having their favorite forecasting folklore and weather indicators.

Okemo's Cutting Edge Learning Center Director Dan Bergeron notes that he is seeing more mice making their way indoors this year ??“ a sure sign that it's going to be a cold...

NEWRY, Maine -- With the total of Boyne USA Resorts' eastern properties now at three following the announcement that the Michigan based operator will add Loon Mountain to their nationwide network of resorts, the trio of Boyne's New England resorts have announced that a new combined season pass offering will be available prior to the winter season. The New England Pass is coming.

"These are three of New England's premier resorts on one pass," ...

BOYNE FALLS, Michigan -- Backed by nearly 60 years of family run resort experience, Boyne USA Resorts is excited to announce its nationwide expansion reinforcing the Michigan-based corporation??в„ўs position as the largest family owned four-season resort company in North America and owner/operator of more ski resorts than any other in the United States. Aided by a partnership with CNL Income Properties, Inc., Boyne USA??в„ўs ski resort portfolio wi...

VAIL, Colorado -- Booth Creek Ski Holdings, Inc. ("Booth Creek") based in Vail, Colorado, and Boyne USA, Inc. ("Boyne USA Resorts"), a Michigan-based company, announced today that they entered into a definitive agreement providing for the sale and transfer of Booth Creek's equity interests in Loon Mountain Recreation Corporation ("Loon Mountain") and Ski Lifts, Inc. (the "Summit") to Boyne USA Resorts. Loon Mountain operates the Loon Mountain ski resort in...

BENNINGTON, New Hampshire -- Peak Resorts announced the promotion of Chris Bradford to General Manager of Crotched Mountain, effective July 1, 2007.

Bradford joined Crotched Mountain as the Marketing Director in 2004. His previous industry experience includes marketing consulting for Utah's Elk Meadows resort, among other ski areas. He has also served as the editor and publisher of two online ski ventures: snowjournal.com and skimaps.com.

LUDLOW, Vermont -- Searching for that lost shaker of salt or cheeseburger in paradise is going to get a lot easier when Okemo Mountain Resort hosts an end-of-summer Parrothead Party on Saturday, October 6. Jimmy Buffett tribute bands The Beach Bumz and Changes in Latitudes will perform, rain or shine, at Okemo's Jackson Gore Inn from 3 to 7 p.m. There will be booze in the blender to render some frozen concoctions. Beer and wine, as well as soft drinks, wil...

BENNINGTON, New Hampshire -- Winter is just around the corner, and early fall is the time to get a deal on new gear for the upcoming season. Zimmermanns is holding their 4th Annual Ski & Snowboard sale at the Crotched Mountain base lodge this weekend. The event will feature equipment and apparel this Saturday and Sunday (September 22nd & 23rd) from 9a.m. to 4p.m.

Due to extraordinarily low prices on some of the biggest brands, this event has ...