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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SIERRA™ RESORT ELITE TEAM CONTINUES TO TAKE NAMES Winter X Games 12 Was Just The Tip Of The Iceberg SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – February 19, 2008 – Halftime score: One X Games Gold medal, One Burton European Open Gold medal, One Burton European Open Bronze medal, One Australian Open Gold medal, One Roxy Chicken Jam Silver medal, One Jeep King of the Mountain Silver medal and One US Chevy Grand Prix Bronze medal. Halfway through the 2007-2008 winter competition season and Sierra Resort’s Elite Team, which includes Jaime Anderson, Joanie Anderson, Hannah Teter and Elijah Teter, is a dominating force at snowboarding competitions around the globe. With three major competitions just around the corner, Sierra-at-Tahoe® Resort’s athletes are looking forward to finishing the winter season at the top of the industry. Watch for Hannah Teter and Jaime Anderson at the Nippon Open February 26 through March 2, 2008, Elijah Teter at the Vans Cup at Northstar-at-Tahoe® Resort February 29 through March 2 and the whole team at the Burton US Open March 17 through 23, 2008. The Nippon Open and Burton US Open are part of the Ticket To Ride World Snowboard Tour, a series of independent freestyle snowboarding events organized under one “ticket”. Riders can earn points at each event during the ten month competition season. Currently, Jaime Anderson is at the top of the Women’s Standings, with 769.08 points, and in good position to claim first place overall. “Jaime’s training from her days racing here at Sierra Resort in USASA competitions has given her a solid foundation for all the freestyle competitions,” said Brady Gunsch, Sierra Resort team coach. “It’s been amazing to watch her progress over the years.” “The Sierra Elite Team exploded onto the competition scene this season,” said John Rice, General Manager of Sierra Resort. “Sierra-at-Tahoe Resort has always believed in investing in young athletes to help them reach their full potential. Our Elite Team is a great role model for the rest of our athletes. We are very proud of their accomplishments this season.” Jaime Anderson flies high during Slopestyle at Winter X Games 12. Photo Credit: Chris Wellhausen, Transworld Snowboarding. Jaime Anderson continues her gold winning streak at Winter X Games 12. Photo Credit: Chris Wellhausen, Transworld Snowboarding. Sierra Resort's Elite Team is dominating the competition this winter. Photo Credit: Tim Peare Visit our Image Gallery to download high and low res photos/logos.

Sierra-at-Tahoe Resort: Part of the Solution Known for its wind-protected slopes, incredible tree skiing, family programs and parks and pipes that are among the best in the nation, Sierra Resort is committed to being part of the solution to environmental conservation. Environmentally responsible operations that include parking spots reserved for guests driving hybrid vehicles and the use of eco-friendly cleaning products resort-wide let our guests know that we care about the land around us as much as they do. We have also partnered with the Bonneville Environmental Foundation and the National Forest Foundation to offer our guests a convenient way to offset their greenhouse gas emissions. The closest major resort to Sacramento, Sierra-at-Tahoe Resort is located just 12 miles west of Lake Tahoe and receives an annual average of 480 inches of snowfall. For more information, visit www.SierraAtTahoe.com or call 530.659.7453.

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February 19, 2008

Throughout the month of March, Sugar Bowl is offering free ski or board rentals and a 2-hour lesson Monday-Friday with the purchase of an all day lift ticket. This program is available for skiers and boarders ages 13-69. This is the prefect time to improve on your skiing or boarding skills. The resort will be offering any level group lessons starting at 10AM. Simply head to the Mt. Judah Portal to purchase your general admission package and to save big!

Kids save big too! The resort’s popular kids programs: Sugar Bears, Base Camp, and Summit Camp are only $60 for an all day session. That’s a $50 savings. Packages will include an all day lift ticket, lesson, and rental equipment.

If you are a CORE Member you will also save big. You still receive $10 off your all day lift ticket purchase and you receive the free 2-hour lesson and rental equipment. If you are not a CORE Member ask how to join today and start saving even more!

Visit Sugarbowl.com for more information or call 530-426-9000.

 

SPECIALTY CAMPS & CLINICS AT NORTHSTAR™ AND SIERRA-AT-TAHOE® RESORTS Amid Incredible Mid-Winter Conditions, Northern California ’s Premier Resorts Offer Targeted Instruction TRUCKEE and SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – January 30, 2008 – Northstar™ and Sierra™ Resorts are catering to the specific needs of skiers and riders with a variety of specialty camps in the coming weeks. Offered for every level of snowsporter from beginner to expert, the camps offer focused, professional instruction. WOMEN SKI & SNOWBOARD CAMPS Taught by top certified female instructors, these camps are designed to help female skiers and riders take their skills to the next level. Women’s Camps are perfect for those who feel they have hit a plateau or learn better in an encouraging group environment. Participants are known to see tremendous growth in their skiing/riding ability and make some new friends in the process! Women’s Camps are offered at Northstar Resort February 1-3 and March 5-7, 2008. The all-inclusive camps include three days of instruction for skiing or riding, demo equipment, lunch, video analysis, yoga classes, wine tasting and appetizers, an equipment class and coffee each morning. Lodging packages are also available, providing participants up to a 30 percent discount on resort lodging accommodations. Women ages 13+ are invited to participate. Women’s Camps are offered at Sierra Resort February 3–5, March 9–11 and April 13–15, 2008. Participants can choose to attend just the first day or all three days. While each camp has a featured skiing/riding focus with a specialized coach, the camps are appropriate for women of all ability levels, ages 18 and up. February’s clinic will focus on racing technique, which will help participants get more comfortable carving and making turns at speed. March will focus on off-piste and backcountry terrain, and April will focus on spring conditions. Lodging packages in South Lake Tahoe are available. BURTON WOMEN'S CAMP Offered at Northstar Resort February 8–10, 2008, the Burton Women’s Camp is a three day camp designed for female snowboarders at any level. The camp includes three days of snowboard instruction, equipment rentals or demos, lift tickets, lunch vouchers, and a Burton Learn-to-Ride goody bag filled with Burton swag. Open to female snowboarders age 16 and up, the Burton Women’s Camp is run by Kelly Smiley, a member of the AASI Western Technical Demonstration Team and a Northstar Resort Snowboard School Instructor. Resort lodging packages are available. As an added bonus to the camp, Burton and Butterbox will host a fashion show on February 9 featuring male snowboard instructors modeling Burton’s line of women’s outerwear. The instructors will then be auctioned off to the highest bidder for a one hour lesson the following morning with all the proceeds going to support Boarding for Breast Cancer.	Women's Camps start this weekend!  Burton Learn-To-Ride Camps for female snowboarders at every level  Telemark Clinics help you become a more fluid skier   Visit our Image Gallery
TELEMARK CAMPS Northstar Resort is offering one day Telemark Camps on February 10, March 9 and April 13, 2008. These all-day camps offer a relaxed, student-centric approach where the participants help dictate the direction. Each level will focus on helping participants become more efficient, fluid skiers. Beginner camps focus on proper stance and weight distribution. Intermediate camps focus on using the inside ski and reinforcing proper technique. Advanced camps focus on skiing any slope in any condition. All camps include a lift ticket, four hours of instruction, video analysis, demo equipment, and a lunch voucher. Sierra Resort offers a Mountain Masters Telemark program for intermediate or better skiers age 16 and over. Beginning the first week of February, the Mountain Masters program runs for six Saturdays on February 2 and 23, March 1, 8, 15 and 29, 2008. Each of the six days includes five hours of instruction and is limited to eight participants. Telemark skiers will learn how to focus their energy to become more fluid skiers and how to ski all types of terrain more aggressively.   About Northstar-at-Tahoe™ Resort: Northstar-at-Tahoe Resort is becoming one of the finest year-round destination mountain resorts in North America offering activities for all ages. With 83 trails spread across 2,490 acres, world-class terrain parks and snow sports including alpine and telemark skiing, snowboarding, cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and tubing, Northstar ™ Resort is fun for all. The resort also offers summer activities including mountain biking, golfing, scenic lift rides for sightseeing and hiking, horseback riding, fly-fishing and much more. And, with the new Village at Northstar™ featuring shopping, dining, special events and a 9,000 square foot skating rink, Northstar Resort offers something for everyone.  Northstar-at-Tahoe Resort is located on Highway 267, just six miles north of Lake Tahoe and six miles south of downtown Truckee. For more information on Northstar Resort, call 1.800.GO.NORTH™ (1.800.466.6784) or visit NorthstarAtTahoe.com. Sierra-at-Tahoe® Resort: Part of the Solution: Known for its wind-protected slopes, incredible tree skiing, family programs and parks and pipes that are among the best in the nation, Sierra Resort is committed to being part of the solution to environmental conservation. Environmentally responsible operations that include parking spots reserved for guests driving hybrid vehicles and the use of eco-friendly cleaning products resort-wide let our guests know that we care about the land around us as much as they do. We have also partnered with the Bonneville Environmental Foundation and the National Forest Foundation to offer our guests a convenient way to offset their greenhouse gas emissions. The closest major resort to Sacramento, Sierra-at-Tahoe Resort is located just 12 miles west of Lake Tahoe and receives an annual average of 480 inches of snowfall.  For more information, visit www.SierraAtTahoe.com or call 530.659.7453.

Save money and time, buy your lift tickets online!
West Coast’s largest online lift ticket provider expands to the East 

Tahoe City, CA: West vs. East Coast feuds? Not in the ski and snowboard industry. CheapLiftTickets.com, the West Coast’s largest provider of online lift ticket discounts, has extended its reach across the country to include more than 30 resorts from the shores of Lake Tahoe to the peaks of Maine; including top destinations such as Squaw Valley, Park City, Snowbird, Stratton Mountain, and Sugarloaf.

Powered by SnowBomb, the pioneers of online lift ticketing, CheapLiftTickets.com offers skiers and snowboarders the ability to purchase and print their lift tickets online at discounted prices.

“What Orbitz and Travelocity are to the airline and hotel industries, SnowBomb is to the ski industry,” says SnowBomb founder and president Jim McAlpine. “We have retained our focus in the West since 1998 building a strong, successful program. And now 10 years later, we’re expanding to offer discounts at ski destinations around the country.”

The savvy skier or snowboarder used to have to hunt around snowboard shops and ski shows to find lift ticket discounts. Today those same value-minded consumers can access savings of up to 50 percent off regular rates to top resorts from the comfort from their home or office via CheapLiftTickets.com The program is simple: An interested skier or snowboarder simply goes to the Website and selects his or her region and preferred resort, purchases lift tickets with a credit or debit card and can either print them out at home or wait for them to arrive in the mail the next day.

“SnowBomb and CheapLiftTickets.com are two of our most integral strategic partners,” says Tim Cohee, president of Kirkwood Mountain Resort. “They understand our market and have helped us attain and retain repeat mountain visitors.”

 

 

SIERRA™ RESORT ELITE TEAM QUALIFIES FOR WINTER X GAMES 12
Four Local Athletes Headed for Snowboarding’s Most Prestigious Individual Competition

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – January 14, 2007 – Four of Sierra-at-Tahoe® Resort’s sponsored athletes have qualified to compete in Winter X Games 12, January 24-27 in Aspen , Colorado . Joanie and Jaime Anderson along with Hannah and Elijah Teter will be competing in the Women’s Snowboarder X, Women’s Slopestyle and Women’s and Men’s Superpipe contests, respectively.

Both Joanie and Jaime Anderson are coming off Gold Medal podium finishes in Winter X Games 11 in 2007. Hannah Teter, famed for landing the first 900 in a women’s halfpipe competition, took the Gold Medal in Torino , Italy in 2006 and Elijah Teter qualified for the coming competition by placing third in the U.S. Chevy Grand Prix halfpipe competition.

“We are so proud of our athletes; it’s not surprising to see all of them competing at the highest profile event in the business. The Teters and the Andersons will represent both Sierra Resort and the Lake Tahoe region well at the X Games, as they are four of the best riders in the world,” said John Rice, General Manager of Sierra-at-Tahoe Resort. “We wish them the best of luck in their pursuit of Winter X Games 12 medals.”

From left: Joanie Anderson, Jaime Anderson, Hannah Teter, Elijah Teter
Sierra Resort's Elite Team Qualifies for Winter X Games 12

 

Northstar Resort's 420-foot Superpipe opened Monday, Jan. 14, 2008.	Chas Guldemond gaps the CK Cabin in The Stash at Northstar-at-Tahoe Resort. Photo by IJ Valenzuela.
NORTHSTAR-AT-TAHOE™ RESORT OPENS 420-FOOT SUPERPIPE AND OFFERS WIDE VARIETY OF SMALL, MEDIUM AND LARGE TERRAIN PARK FEATURES TRUCKEE, Calif. – Jan. 14, 2007 – Ranked in the top ten in the nation for the past three years by TransWorld SNOWboarding magazine, Northstar™ Resort’s 420-foot Superpipe opened today, offering skiers and riders access to the best pipe in Lake Tahoe. This, in combination with the resort’s eight terrain parks featuring a variety of jumps and jibs, offers a plethora of options for skiers and riders interested in riding freestyle terrain.

 

Check Out Valentines Day Specials at Diamond Peak
Incline Village, NV- Take your love to a higher level by enjoying an intimate Valentines Day Dinner at the Snowflake Lodge on February 14, 2008. Catch a chairlift up to our mid-mountain Snowflake Lodge where youll be treated to an amazing sunset over Lake Tahoe while being served an incredible five course dinner paired with wine. The cost is $285 for two people all-inclusive. There is limited seating, so reservations are highly recommended. For reservations, please call 775-832-1194 (Leaving an audio message is not a guarantee for confirmation of reservation. Full payment by credit card is required. Guests can cancel up to 72 hour out from the event date, no shows and or under 72 hour cancellation will be charged $35 per person).
On February 14th we also have a 2 For 1 ticket special at Diamond Peak. Bring your sweetheart to ski on February 14th and get two lift tickets for the price of one. Enjoy a great day of skiing and treat your Valentine to a romantic lunch at the mid-mountain Snowflake Lodge overlooking Lake Tahoe.
Diamond Peak is located at 1210 Ski Way in Incline Village, Nevada. For more information regarding Valentine’s Day specials or other events, please call 775-832-1177 or visit www.diamondpeak.com.

 

 

Storms Rocket Snowbird Snowfall Over 300 Inches
Powder-Filled Season Continues with 125-Inch Base and More on the Way

Snowbird, Utah Two consecutive months of over 130 inches of snowfall have created an epic season for Snowbird and recent storms have pushed the season-to-date snowfall total at the Little Cottonwood Canyon resort past the 300-inch mark.

Two storms have deposited over three feet of snow on Snowbird since the skies opened Monday. The resort received 21 inches of snow out of a Monday into Monday night storm and 16 inches of snow from a storm that began Tuesday afternoon and has not stopped yet.

Snow is continuing to fall and additional accumulations measured in feet are expected throughout the week with multiple storms on the radar.

Snowbird is reporting a base of 125 inches at mid-mountain and over 315 inches so far this year for the resort that averages 500 inches a year. Snowbird has received 134 inches of snow over the past 26 days, or an average of 5 inches a day for nearly the entire month of January.

For more information or to see photos of the current conditions, visit www.snowbird.com. Live shots of the current storms snow accumulation can be seen using Snowbirds SnowCam at www.snowbird.com/snowcam.