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BETHEL, Maine ??” Sunday River will host the 6th Annual North American Wife Carrying Championships presented by Redhook at Sunday River October 8. The event is part of Fall Festival weekend at the resort, which also includes live entertainment with Boston-based Entrain, a beer garden, crab fest, craft fair, children's games and activities, scenic chairlift rides, wagon rides and more.

The champions of the NAWCC will receive a round-trip t...

LINCOLN, New Hampshire ??” This season's best deal in snow country is offered to college students who purchase a College Threedom Pass. Offered by Loon Mountain, Waterville Valley and Cranmore Mountain Resort, the College Threedom Pass offers season-long skiing and riding at all three resorts with no restrictions for just $219.

College students living on a tight budget will find the Threedom Pass is the most affordable solution for winte...

WATERVILLE VALLEY, New Hampshire ??” Waterville Valley's Town Square will host the sixteenth annual Chowderfest Saturday, October 1 and Fall Foliage Festival October 8-10. As part of the Fall Foliage Festival, a weekend-long tent sale in Town Square will offer great prices on ski and snowboard equipment. Live entertainment, good food, and great deals on equipment for the upcoming season make the Fall Foliage Festival a must-do event.

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LINCOLN, New Hampshire ??” Tis the season for beer, bratwurst and brass bands and Loon Mountain will host its annual Oktoberfest, October 8 and 9, to celebrate the arrival of autumn and the traditions of the world-famous festival. The weekend will feature a live oompah band, traditional German fare and hearty beer. With fall foliage in full splendor, Oktoberfest attendees will also want to include a ride to the summit on Loon's gondola skyride.
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BOSTON, Massachusetts ??” The Appalachian Mountain Club today announced that it has named Christine Woodside as the new editor of Appalachia, the nation??™s oldest mountaineering and conservation journal. Woodside, an accomplished, award-winning environmental writer and editor, succeeds Lucille Stott, who served as editor for five years.

Woodside is the former environmental reporter for The Day, a daily newspaper in New London, Conn...

CONCORD, New Hampshire ??” On Saturday, October 8, join the staff of the New Hampshire Division of Parks and Recreation and the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests on a hike to the summit of Mount Monadnock. The hike will provide an opportunity to learn about cultural, natural, and recreational history, recent land protection efforts around the mountain, new State Park facilities, and the public-private partnership to both protect and ...

PARK CITY, Utah ??” Skiers and snowboarders whose friends aren??™t getting out on the slopes enough now have a tool to lure their former cohorts back to the lifestyle. An innovative flash-based "intervention" uses an array of characters, voiceovers and humor to catch the attention of the less-than-motivated skier or rider.

Thousands of "interventions" are expected in the coming weeks. The campaign to build early momentum for the com...

VERNON, New Jersey ??” Mountain Creek and the Vernon Township Kiwanis Club are pleased to announce that the Alan Zerbini Olde Tyme Circus will once again pitch its tent in the Mountain Creek South Parking Lot on Friday, September 23, 2005.

Sponsored by the Vernon Kiwanis Club, with space donated by Mountain Creek, the circus is an important fundraiser, which will provide funds for Kiwanis' scholarship program and other activities for the ...

PINKHAM NOTCH, New Hampshire ??” Wildcat Mountain is gearing up for another great season in 2005/06. According to Tom Caughey, General Manager of Wildcat Mountain, "We've been having an excellent season this summer with the gondola skyride. Lots of families have taken advantage of the our lunch and ride package deal, and have discovered Wildcat in the summer. Of course, we're open until mid-October, so we're anticipating a spectacular New England foli...

EASTON, New Hampshire ??” A New Hampshire author has written a new how-to mogul-skiing book meant to give fit, expert skiers the ability to ski moguls with the smoothness, efficiency and control of the competitive bump skier.

In Everything the Instructors Never Told You About Mogul Skiing, author and competitive bump skier Dan DiPiro reveals the special techniques that competitors use to negotiate big bumps and deep troughs on st...