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NEWRY, Maine -- Sunday River will host the 8th Annual North American Wife Carrying Championships (NAWCC) on Saturday, Oct. 6. The event is part of Fall Festival weekend at the resort, which will also include the 20th Annual Summit Challenge Race, an Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference mountain bike race, live music, beer garden, wine tasting, the 24th Annual Blue Mountain Arts and Craft Fair, children's games and activities, scenic chairlift rides, wagon...

HUNTER, New York -- Hunter Mountain's annual Microbrew & Wine Festival will kick off on September 22 & 23, featuring microbrews and wines of the Hudson Valley, New York State and beyond. The festival starts each day at noon and ends at 5pm, taking place in the base lodge at Hunter Mountain Resort.

Breweries scheduled to attend include Butternuts, Brooklyn Brewery, Redhook Ale, Ithaca, Albany Pump Station, Lake Placid, Saranac, Keegan, Gilded O...

BOULDER, Colorado -- SKI Magazine's annual "Top 50 Resort Guide," the definitive ranking of North American ski resorts, names Deer Valley, Utah as the No. 1 ski resort in its October issue, on newsstands September 25. Deer Valley returns to the top spot after being ranked second in last year's survey. Perennial favorite Tremblant, Que. is again ranked No. 1 on the East Coast, a tribute to consistent standards of excellence.

Luxury favorite De...

BOSTON, Massachusetts -- First-of-its-kind free online community and paid subscription service offer only comprehensive, continually-updated guide to over 500 trails in the White Mountains

The Appalachian Mountain Club (AMC) today launched AMC White Mountain Guide Online, a web-based community and subscription service based on the recently published 100th anniversary edition AMC White Mountain Guide, the oldest continuously published hiking tr...

STOWE, Vermont -- Don Knaack, aka 'The Junkman,' will be in residency at Spruce Peak at Stowe this summer from August 25 through September 3. Don's presentations begin when he designs and constructs a 'Junk-Music-Playstation' with scrap materials from the Stowe Mountain Lodge (opening this ski season) construction site and other areas around Stowe Mountain Resort. The Junk-Music-Playstation is a percussion-based sound sculpture made exclusively from recycl...

KILLINGTON, Vermont -- Killington Resort is offering aerial fall foliage viewing via K-1 Gondola, plus mountain biking, hiking and special events to showcase the spectacular autumn colors throughout the Green Mountains of Central Vermont.

Historically, the leaves start to change the second to third week of September and continue through late October with "peak foliage season" taking place around the first to second week of October, according ...

MOUNT SNOW, Vermont -- Olympic Gold medalist and Mount Snow Academy graduate Kelly Clark took first place in the quarterpipe competition at the 2007 New Zealand Open, held Wednesday, August 8 in Wanaka, New Zealand.

Clark also won honors for getting the biggest air in the quarterpipe, and placed second in the halfpipe competition. Australia's Torah Bright scored an even 88.00 to narrowly edge Clark, who scored 87.25. Manuela Laura Pesko of Sw...

WILMINGTON, New York -- Whiteface Mountain, among the most challenging ski and ride mountains in the nation, will host its second annual downhill mountain bike race ??“ a five kilometer competition - on Sunday, September 2.

This NORBA-sanctioned event (National Off-Road Bicycle Association), part of the Gravity East series, will carry a $5,000 pro purse. There will be several thousand dollars additionally in bike-related merchandise for t...

SNOWSHOE, West Virginia -- Snowshoe Mountain is adding another item to that all-important back to school list-the $299 College Season Pass. Any currently enrolled college student with proof of registration is eligible for this incredible deal. What better way to visit the mid-Atlantic and Southeast's #1 ski resort all season long?

College season passes will go on sale September 1st and will available only until January 6, 2008. The unlimited s...

BARTLETT, New Hampshire -- Attitash in Bartlett, New Hampshire announces over $3 million in capital improvements for the 07/08 winter season. $2.5 million in snowmaking enhancements, a lift extension on the Abenaki lift, two new grooming machines and improvements to the Adventure Center Base Lodge are amongst the primary investments.

A detailed plan of the snowmaking project was announced earlier in the summer. The project targets several pre...