VAIL SKI & SNOWBOARD SCHOOL IS HOLDING A 49TH YEAR REUNION. The event will be on Sunday, December 11,2011. The day will consist of skiing/riding and a celebration afterwards. This event is open to all Vail Ski & Snowboard School current staff and alumni in...
Georg Capaul, the well-regarded Swiss ski coach who has influenced American ski athletes for more than three decades, will be honored with the Spirit of Skiing Award at the New England Ski Museum's 34th Annual Meeting and dinner on November 5, 2011 at the Waterville Valley...
On July 19, the Australian post office issued three skiing and snowboarding stamps honoring the 150th anniversary of skiing in theSnowyMountains. The 1859 Australian gold rush drew thousands of miners and would-be miners to New South Wales. They came from all over the world,...
FIS mandates 35-meter minimum radius for men, 30-meter for women. Despite protests by many racers, the International Ski Federation (FIS) is on track to require longer, straighter giant slalom skis in World Cup and Olympic competition beginning next season. Early last...
It’s been an historic year for ski jumping. Ski Flying Record On Feb. 11, Johan Remen Evensen took advantage of the newly-enlarged Vikersund 225-meter ski-flying hill in Norway, to set a new world record of 246.5 meters. That surpassed the previous record of 239m, set...
By Seth Masia On Tuesday, Jan. 25, a group of top freestyle skiers will inaugurate a new jumping hill in the center of Downtown Denver. The following day the U.S. will get its first look at a new FIS competition, Snowboard Big Air, on the same hill. The athletes will fly about...
By Seth Masia In November, when the Squaw Valley Development Co. was sold to KSL Capital Partners, it marked the end of 61 years of control by the Cushing family of California’s winter Olympic venue. Squaw Valley was the brainchild of Reno's Wayne Poulsen (photo right, with...
Entries are now being accepted for the 2011 ISHA Awards, which honors the year’s best books, films and videos about skiing’s history and heritage. To be considered for judging, the work must be published or produced in 2011. To enter, submit three copies by December 15 to...
Network reverses policy on delay of events until prime time For $4.38 billion, NBC retains the right to telecast the next four Olympics. The big news for skiing: The network will show all events in real time. Mark Lazarus, head of sports programming for NBC, announced plans to...
By John Fry The overall World Cup championship was to have been determined by a single giant slalom race, to be held on Saturday, March 19th in the 4,921-foot high Swiss ski resort of Lenzerheide. On the eve of the race, Germany’s Maria Riesch led America’s Lindsey Vonn by...
Carol Burney of Quincy, California, and Eric McGrath of Reno, Nevada are the new world champions of longboard racing, as the Plumas Ski Club celebrated the 150th anniversary of the first ski racing and ski club in America, March 19 and 20, 2011, in Johnsville, California. In...
Alissa Johnson, Willy Graves take first golds since 1980 Park City, Utah, March 5, 2011 -- Alissa Johnson and Willy Graves, both of Utah's Westminster College, won the first U.S. Collegiate Nordic Ski Jumping National Championships -- the first collegiate ski jumping...
Snowsports Industries America (SIA) took advantage of the very successful 2011 trade show in Denver to announce the expansion of its recycling program for ski equipment. According to some reports, seven large ski shops in the Denver-Boulder area have collected about 20 tons of...
