Ladies! This Valentine’s Day and for the rest of the winter, don’t head to the beach where the boys are, head to the mountains where the men are. Some women like to keep it their secret that it’s usually three men for every two women skiing at any of the many ski resorts across North America. Who knew that black diamonds could lead to a real diamond?
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So you have the urge to go skiing, but you don’t want to spend a lot of money or battle the crowds at the more famous resorts. Our friends at Liftopia.com have a few tips for you.
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Ski resorts out west, in the Rockies and in the Pacific Northwest are facing a difficult avalanche danger period. There is almost no danger within the resort boundaries, however skiers and riders who duck under the ropes are courting danger.
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In these days of shrinking airline capacity, it is nice to have news of a new route opening. Naturally, it has to do with reaching a ski and snowboard area once only accessible by a 3 to 5 hour drive. Now a short hop from LA brings winter sports enthusiasts to one of America’s biggest resorts.
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Distant destination ski and snowboard resorts will be facing strong headwinds of rising airfares, diminishing flight schedules and new fees for transporting skis and snowboards. In the past, the main problems faced by marketers were financial and emotional — costs vs. great snow. Today changes in airlift capacity might mean no airline seats to reach destination resort slopes.
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While North America is sweltering in 80- and 90-degree temperatures, the bottom half of the world is descending into an early winter. Charlie Leocha is chasing the snow at Chile’s Valle Nevado resort.
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Sunshine Village in the Canadian Rockies in the Banff National Park reported almost two feet of snow this weekend. Good news for Spring skiing.
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Skiers and snowboarders here in the U.S.A. are enjoying an epic year of snow. Right now, the U.S. has the best skiing and riding conditions in the world. Better yet, most of the resorts with the longest seasons in North America are within only an hour of two great spring skiing airports—Salt Lake City, Utah, and Reno, Nevada.
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On Lake Tahoe’s north rim, two Nevada resorts, Mt. Rose and Diamond Peak, will be holding their annual “Dummy Downhill” races on April 5th. Both resorts are less than an hour from Reno, Nevada, and have great conditions right now.
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The Swiss resorts of Klosters and Davos are only about a half-hour by train from each other, but worlds apart in their town experience. Klosters village spreads with wooden chalets-style buildings and Davos is square, concrete and urban.
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