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Thursday evenings, 5.30 pm to 8.30 pm - starting 09 December 2010
Kids Ski & Ride School, West Portal Station
Kids, enjoy a night out in Winter Park! Parents take advantage of evening childcare and enjoy the new shops and restaurants in the Village at Winter Park. “Kids Night Out” is available for children ages 4 to 12 and the program is loaded with fun indoor activities and includes dinner and s’mores by the fire. Activities include crafts, games, movies and more.
This is a free childcare service offered to parents on the conditions that US$30 per child is spent at any commercial outlet in The Village at Winter Park during the hours that the children are in the program. Original receipts are required to verify the expenditure. If less than US$30 per child is spent, parents will be charged the difference.
Reserve your child’s space by 4pm day-of, callinng 800 729 7907. Enrolment is limited and is on a first-come, first-served basis. Dates and times subject to change. Parents must pick up their children by 8.30 pm or full amount will be charged for Club Discovery.
>> Visit the our Winter Park ski area

Let the celebration begin in the Vail Valley, as Vail and Beaver Creek Resorts were selected by the International Ski Federation (FIS) Council to host the 2015 World Alpine Ski Championships.

Vail and Beaver Creek Resorts have been supporting and hosting international ski racing events and World Cups since the circuit began in 1967. Today, the Birds of Prey World Cup at Beaver Creek stands as one of the most highly respected and most difficult stops on the men’s World Cup tour.

With the 2015 announcement, Beaver Creek plans to upgrade the Birds of Prey venue, increasing the finish area for the men’s events, building a new Red Tail Camp Restaurant and building a new women’s speed course which will rival the men’s course. This run also will serve the combined events and the nation’s team event during the 2015 Championships. The women’s technical events, including the giant slalom and slalom will be held at Vail which will have a new, dramatic stadium located in the heart of Vail Village. Opening and closing ceremonies also will take place in Vail.

Plans for the 2015 World Championships will begin immediately as World Cup racing action returns to the Vail Valley, 03-05 December, 2010 for the Men’s Birds of Prey World Cup.
Follow the action at www.beavercreek.com, www.vail.com and www.bcworldcup.com.

Park City is North America’s most accessible ski resort township…..35 minutes from Salt Lake City International Airport.  Once you arrive at Park City you have the choice of three world class ski resorts: Deer Valley, Park City & The Canyons all within 5-10 mintues drive of the centre of Park City.  These three ski resorts are all valid on one lift pass to give you 3,660 hectares (over 9,000 acres) of skiable terrain!

The Canyons is the largest ski area with great on mountain village.
Park City Mountain Resort earned the title ‘terrain park of the year’ in 2010 and is where Shaun White trains.
Deer Valley has been ranked #1 ski resort in North America by Ski Magazine readers in 2008, 2009 & 2010.

If you would like to ski in Park City please contact Lianne, she has skied & stayed at: Park City, Deer Valley and The Canyons.  Email: liannes@skitraveller.co.nz

  After skiing NZ for 25 consecutive winters I decided it was time to fufill a life time passion to have a northern hemisphere ski holiday.We are a family of five with two 15 yr olds and one 17 yr old.We belong to a Ruapahue ski club and I had seen some info kicking around the club about ski holidays but everytime I multiplied the cost by five I just about fell over.Last winter I saw a ski holiday featured in the herald travel section.This was run by Lianne Stott at Ski Traveller in Auckland.I began to email Lianne and with the benefit of her advise and experience we decided that our destination would be Copper Mountian in Colorado.  Copper mountian is an area called Summit County that includes the towns of Silverthorne, Dillon, Breckinridge and Frisco.The adjoining ski fields are Breckinridge, Keystone, Araprahoe Basin and Copper Mountian.These are all within a 15-40 minute drive from Frisco.From Frisco is a free bus service that runs between all these towns and ski fields that runs for about 19 hours a day.Brilliant.We never felt the need for a hire car at all and still managed to see a lot of the local area.Vail, reputed to be Americas largest ski field is only 20 minutes down the road from copper mountian but is not included in the Summit County area but easily accessible.  We booked 12 nights at Copper in a two bedroom, two bathroom, pull out sofa bed, fully equiped kitchen condo that was about 2-3 minutes walk to the chair lift.Copper village was very quaint, spotlessly clean, zero litter,comes with all the restaurants, shops, hot tubs, lap pool, skating rink, medical center and hire shops.For a family ski holiday this was fantastic.The ski field was supurb with great variety of beutifully groomed to challenging moguled steeps.The facilities on field were excellent.Copper had a deal Mt Ruapehue where we were able to ski on our 2009 seasons pass.This made to holiday way more affordable than I thought possible.  Liannes booking and airport advise was right on the button.Also her advise on comprehensive travel insurace was invaluble.Dont skimp on insurance.We had a great time, really loved it, and I cant wait to plan the next one.  Go Ski TravellerMark.

Want great end of season snow?  Check out Utah.  Snowbird (only 29 miles from Salt Lake City Airport) had 19 inches of snow in the past 24 hours.  Talk to Lianne she skied at Snowbird in April 2009.

Greetings from Aspen/Snowmass,

We have received over 34 inches (86 cm) in the last week and the mountains are bottomless!! Powder shots were everywhere and the new snow definitely made everyone smile! This is a fantastic base for the spring skiing that is coming up so make sure to let everyone know that the skiing in Aspen/Snowmass can’t be beat!!! Here are some pictures from our recent storm.

2+ FEET OF FRESH POWDER!!!Another storm moved into Mammoth yesterday and left us with 27 inches of fresh powder on the mountain today. More storms are expected to move in next week, but the sky is clear today so don’t miss this chance to experience the amazing conditions at Mammoth Mountain.

TELLURIDE, CO (Feb. 24, 2010) – Reflecting a European skiing experience found in Chamonix, France, the Telluride Ski Resort airlifted a new bridge and staircase to the left shoulder of Palmyra Peak this morning at approximately 8 am. Heliqwest, a helicopter company based out of Canada, airlifted two steel staircases and bridge over the ski resort to its final resting place – the span between Gold Hill Chutes 8 and 9.

“This addition is a continuation of our efforts to provide ski experience which is ‘Unmatched in North America,’” said Dave Riley, CEO of the resort. “This project was extremely technical, and our in house staff has done a phenomenal job in both planning and execution. The Telluride Ski Resort is thrilled to once again expand easy access into epic inbounds terrain.”

It’s not too late for a 2010 ski holiday….check out Alta & Snowbird in Utah they have the best late season skiing in North America.  I was there in mid April 2009 and we had nearly two feet of snow dump over night in the Little Cottonwood Canyon.  Snowbird and Alta are located side by side (you can ski from one to the other) in the Little Cottonwood Canyon under an hour from Salt Lake City Airport.  Alta is a skiers only mountain, Snowbird you can snowboard or ski.

Check out the amazing snow at Alta: http://www.altachalets.com/alta/check-out-our-new-alta-video

We have some fanatastic homes, lodges, chalets and condos available at Alta and Snowbird.
Get a group of friends together and book our ski home that sleeps 22.

Please talk to Lianne about your ski holiday to Utah.
Toll Free NZ: 0800 11 22 99
email: liannes@skitraveller.co.nz

Happy snow day!

We’re excited to announce the opening of Crested Butte’s famed black and double black diamond terrain, accessed by the High Lift and North Face Lift.  Waist deep powder awaits…. Eye candy is attached. 

As always, we’re here to answer questions and tell you all about our snow “product testing.”

Kind regards,

Tim, Geoff, and Lindsay

Crested Butte