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NEWRY, Maine -- The first of Nickelodeon and Sunday River's Family Winter Festivals has been declared a "huge success" as Sunday River prepares to host an additional week plus a weekend of Nickelodeon-themed family fun on and off the slopes.

"The kids had a great time during the first week," said Caroline Ochtera, who organized the event at Sunday River. "At the Welcome Party we had a torchlight parade, fireworks, and over 20 teams participati...

LUDLOW, Vt. ??“ Football fans can get in a full weekend of skiing and riding with super savings at Okemo Mountain Resort and still make it home in time for Superbowl kickoff.

A two-day lift ticket is just $99 when skiers and riders visit Okemo on Friday, February 2 and Saturday, February 3 or Saturday, February 3 and Sunday, February 4 or Sunday, February 4 and Monday, February 5. Young Adults (13-18) and Seniors (65-69) pay just $89 and ...

LUDLOW, Vermont -- On Sunday, January 28, skiers and snowboarders went huge in Okemo Mountain Resort's SoBe Superpipe for 2007's first halfpipe competition in the eastern U.S. The Lindsey Baron Memorial Halfpipe Competition is a part of Okemo's Freeride Series. All proceeds from the competition are being donated to the Lindsey Baron "Bubba" Foundation, which raises money for scholarships and programs that promote acts of kindness and reward and encourage t...

LUDLOW, Vermont -- With the overdue arrival of winter weather, Okemo Mountain Resort is happy to offer alternative activities to alpine skiing and snowboarding. For the first time ever, visitors to the popular resort can enjoy ice skating at the new Ice House at Jackson Gore and snow tubing in the Jackson Gore base area. The arrival of natural snow has also allowed the resort to open its Okemo Valley Nordic Center for cross-country skiing and snowshoeing.<...

WINDHAM, New York -- Windham Mountain will host a regional qualifier for the Jeep Terrain Park Challenge, Saturday, Feb. 3 at 11 am.

The Jeep Terrain Park Challenge offers amateur skiers and snowboarders a chance to showcase their best moves in the nation's best terrain parks. Proceeds will benefit the Heuga Center for Multiple Sclerosis.

Windham Mountain is hosting one of 75 qualifiers for thousands of eager participants. This g...

NORTH CREEK, New York -- Gore Mountain will host a full day of demos, clinics, and racing for telemark skiers on Sunday, February 4!

Inside Edge of Glens Falls will offer telemark skis for demo from K2 and Atomic, along with Garmont, Scarpa, and Crispi boots. Eastern Mountain Sports (EMS) of Albany will feature additional K2 skis with Black Diamond bindings, and Garmont boots.

90-minute group clinics will be available for beginn...

LINCOLN, New Hampshire -- This past weekend Loon Mountain opened its Burton Progression Park, a progressive learning terrain park from Burton Snowboards and Loon Mountain that features specially-designed small terrain park elements for beginner to intermediate level riders. The smaller features provide a similar look and feel of their bigger counterparts that are typically found in larger terrain parks but in a laid-back, fun environment more conducive to ...

WARREN, Vermont -- The Life-Link Ski Mountaineering Race Series is coming back to Vermont's Mad River Valley. A national race series sanctioned by the United States Ski Mountaineering Association (USSMA), the Life-Link races are held at some of the premier resorts in North America including such backcountry havens as Crested Butte, CO and Jackson Hole, WY. Last year marked the first time a race was held east of the Rockies when Sugarbush and Mad River Glen...

WILMINGTON, New York -- The USASA Adirondack Series titles are up for grab on Saturday, Feb. 3 at Whiteface during the USASA (www.usasa.org) Adirondack Series Whiteface Park Slopestyle Doubleheader, presented by North Country Community College (www.nccc.edu).

Bordz-Up, maker of snowboard, skateboard, surfboard and ski gravity suspension racks, is the featured sponsor of the ...

STOWE, Vermont -- Stowe Mountain Resort dares to ask the question: How much woods could a woodchuck ski, if a woodchuck could ski woods? Find out in Stowe on Friday, February 2nd.

In most places people will call this Friday, February 2nd 'Groundhog's Day,' but in Vermont it's definitely 'Woodchuck Day.' Each year on this day, people around the country watch to see if winter might end early. In Stowe, everyone knows this winter just got a big b...