SnowSports Blog » Beaver Creek http://www.snowsports.org/blog Connect with SIA and the snow sports industry through updates, tweets, photo sets, videos, shared power point presentations and linking to other colleagues. Mon, 20 May 2013 18:42:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Suzy Chaffee: Snowdancers have much to do with recent blessing of precip http://www.snowsports.org/blog/index.php/2012/01/13/suzy-chaffee-snowdancers-have-much-to-do-with-recent-blessing-of-precip/ http://www.snowsports.org/blog/index.php/2012/01/13/suzy-chaffee-snowdancers-have-much-to-do-with-recent-blessing-of-precip/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:48:34 +0000 admin http://www.snowsports.org/blog/?p=1424 Former Olympian, a.k.a. Suzy Chapstick, says Vail may do well to pay it forward January 10, 2012, 9:23 am The Vail Business Journal By Tara Flanagan   Eddy and Betty Box and Southern Ute dancers perform a Gratitude Snowdance and blessing of the athletes to open Vail’s 2010 World Cup, hosted by Vail Academy.   [...]]]>

Former Olympian, a.k.a. Suzy Chapstick, says Vail may do well to pay it forward

January 10, 2012, 9:23 am
The Vail Business Journal
By Tara Flanagan
 

Eddy and Betty Box and Southern Ute dancers perform a Gratitude Snowdance and blessing of the athletes to open Vail's 2010 World Cup, hosted by Vail Academy.
Eddy and Betty Box and Southern Ute dancers perform a Gratitude Snowdance and blessing of the athletes to open Vail’s 2010 World Cup, hosted by Vail Academy.

 
VAIL, Colo.—There was a collective sigh of relief through Colorado’s central mountains Sunday morning as the day broke into a robin’s-egg-blue sky and a blanket of priceless snow swathed the earth and trees.

The storm broke a spell that had been Vail’s driest in 30 years, dumping eight inches at Vail, nine at Beaver Creek, seven at Breckenridge and six inches at Steamboat. Some forecasts call for more snow mid-week.

True, sooner or later, it’s going to snow. But with the ski season moving toward mid-January and with that, the holiday and winter break reservations running their course, it was perhaps time to summon help on a level beyond “sooner or later.” And in the meantime, Vail did some returning to its roots.

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]]> http://www.snowsports.org/blog/index.php/2012/01/13/suzy-chaffee-snowdancers-have-much-to-do-with-recent-blessing-of-precip/feed/ 0 Five U.S. Resorts Confirmed for World Cup http://www.snowsports.org/blog/index.php/2011/06/10/five-u-s-resorts-confirmed-for-world-cup/ http://www.snowsports.org/blog/index.php/2011/06/10/five-u-s-resorts-confirmed-for-world-cup/#comments Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:35:08 +0000 admin http://www.snowsports.org/blog/?p=491 LJUBJANA, Slovenia – Five U.S. resorts were confirmed Monday as sites of the 2011-12 International Ski Federation (FIS) World Cup ski and snowboarding events. The five resorts are: Aspen, Beaver Creek, Telluride, Deer Valley Resort and Lake Placid. FIS announced these magic five after its annual meetings in Portoroz and Ljubjana, Slovenia. “Our World Cup [...]]]>

LJUBJANA, Slovenia – Five U.S. resorts were confirmed Monday as sites of the 2011-12 International Ski Federation (FIS) World Cup ski and snowboarding events. The five resorts are: Aspen, Beaver Creek, Telluride, Deer Valley Resort and Lake Placid. FIS announced these magic five after its annual meetings in Portoroz and Ljubjana, Slovenia.

“Our World Cup events are the ultimate showcase for our athletes,” said U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) Executive Vice President, Athletics Luke Bodensteiner. “They’re an opportunity for our athletes to compete on the home field and at our nation’s best venues, in front of American fans and viewers.”

Each of the U.S. stops will be broadcast nationally and also to tens-of-millions worldwide.

 “Our media partners are a critical element to bringing the excitement of our sports to our fans,” said the USSA’s Chief Revenue and Marketing Officer Andrew Judelson. 

The Audi FIS Alpine World Cup will return to Aspen November 26-27, 2011 for the women’s giant slalom and slalom, and the following weekend will continue with the Birds of Prey in Beaver Creek December 2-4 for the men’s downhill, super G and giant slalom. The U.S. Ski Teams greats will be present speeding down the respective hills. Naming five, going along with the magic five resorts are: Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO), Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley, CA), Bode Miller (Franconia, NH), Andrew Weibrecht (Lake Placid, NY), and World and Olympic Champion Ted Ligety (Park City, UT). Looking ahead to 2015, Vail/Beaver Creek will be the site of the 2015 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships.

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