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EAST BURKE, Vermont ??” March has been the month for high-profile freestyle events at Burke Mountain, and that trend continues this Saturday, March 18th with the return of the Budweiser Big Air Competition. The first two Saturdays in March each featured a freestyle contest, beginning with the Dashney Mile Style youth competition on March 4th, and continuing with the annual Rail Jam this past weekend. But Big Air is the big one at Burke, with a $500 ca...

WINDHAM, New York ??” Saturday, March 14, 2006 Windham Mountain will host a St. Patrick's Day celebration promising Irish music, games, food and drink, and of course, skiing and snowboarding.

Festivities will take place on the lodge's back patio, cafeteria and Legends Lounge where attendants can enjoy corned beef and cabbage and Guinness specials. Irish music will be played through the mountain's sound system all day long.

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PINKHAM NOTCH, New Hampshire ??” On Saturday, March 25, 2006, the Wildcat Mountain Ski Patrol will be holding a reunion at Wildcat Mountain. Activities will include a casual drop-in evening at the Red Barn on Route 16 at Red Barn Road, in Jackson, NH, on the evening of Friday, March 24th; a day on the slopes on Saturday, March 25th, and a mandatory dinner-meeting on the second floor of the Main Base Lodge at Wildcat at 6:30pm, with preliminary discuss...

PINKHAM NOTCH, New Hampshire ??” On Monday, March 20th, 2006, Wildcat Mountain is hosting a toboggan challenge for mountain ski patrollers from across New England.

This is a friendly competition where three person ski patrol teams will test their toboggan handling skills by running a loaded toboggan straight down "the Gizzard" at Wildcat Mountain. This is the term used by Wildcat's patrol for the trails running down the center of the mou...

BRETTON WOODS, New Hampshire ??” On March 6-8, 2006, Bretton Woods Mountain Resort hosted a Veterans Appreciation Clinic, at which soldiers were introduced to skiing and snowboarding using adaptive equipment. Five soldiers participated, including some that have been involved in the current Iraqi conflict, along with another seven support personnel. The profile of the injured included blind, amputees, and spinal cord injured in wheelchairs. One soldier...

LINCOLN, New Hampshire ??” Loon Mountain is once again calling for the creative talents of snow sliders to demonstrate their skills on the slopes, March 26, for the annual Cardboard Classic. Sliders must construct their sleds from cardboard and be decorative. Cash prizes will be awarded in various categories and registration is free, but limited to the first 75 racers.

Registration is from 9:30 to 11 a.m., March 26, in the Governor Adams ...

WATERVILLE VALLEY, New Hampshire ??” Top U.S. snowboard academies competed for top honors at Waterville Valley Resort as Red Bull Schooled: Snowboard returned for its fourth year to the Northeast. Vermont's Stratton Mountain School won the combined-discipline event consisting of male slopestyle, women's slopestyle and skateboarding.

Exclusively open to snowboard academies, Red Bull Schooled provided the opportunity for top academies to co...

CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine ??” With 10 bands performing over 4 days, Sugarloaf/USA??™s 18th annual Bud Light Reggae Festival on April 6-9 promises to be the biggest and best ever. The sounds of the Caribbean will be heard throughout the Sugarloaf Village from Thursday night right through Sunday afternoon. The line up is equally split between crowd favorite Reggae Festival veterans and first-time Sugarloaf performers.

The unusually l...

BOLTON VALLEY, Vermont ??” It has been over 20 years since Bolton Valley Resort has seen the kind of changes that it did this season. Over $2 million in on-mountain improvements have been made to the Resort and more upgrades are forecasted for the upcoming year. Phase one of a $10 million renaissance plan began this season with the opening of new top-to-bottom Vista Quad, the new Vista Bowl and the new Fireside Flatbread Pizzeria.

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KILLINGTON, Vermont ??” Pico Mountain is as rich in history as it is in ski and snowboard terrain. One of Vermont's first mountain resorts, Pico opened on Thanksgiving Day, 1937. At that point, the lift was a 1,200' tow hooked up to the engine of a junked Hudson automobile. The slope was the 2.5-mile-long Sunset Schuss trail, New England's widest ski trail at an average of 65 feet.

Pico's first ski race was held in January 1938, and over ...