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SKI AREA NEWS
Find out what's going on at your favorite ski area or one on your "must visit" list, who has snow and what events are scheduled. Read about what will be happening. We update the ski area news every month during the ski season and MORE



OH WOW
Everything is blurry. I rub my eyes, I still can not see too clearly. I have no desire to wake up. Damn my phone is bright. "Thank you for calling Snowbird Mountain Resorts Snow report, we have received 8 new inches in the last 12 hours and 15 inches in the last 48 hours." Hmm, I suddenly have all the motivation I need to jump right out of bed and into my snowboard pants. MORE

US SNOWBOARD TEAM NEWS
Veteran Wescott Wins First SBX Gold - U.S. Snowboarding's Seth Wescott (Carrabassett Valley, ME) made Olympic history Thursday by winning the first ever Olympic Snowboardcross gold medal as the event debuted in Bardonecchia. MORE

FREESTYLE TEAMS FIGHT IT OUT AT DEER VALLEY
Athletes for 28 countries were scheduled to compete in the air and in the bumps at Deer Valley. Many of them were trying to nail down a spot on their respective Olympic Freestyle Teams. I was really looking forward to seeing this pre-Olympic event. MORE

US ALPINE SKI TEAM NEWS
Ligety Wins Gold in Combined!
SESTRIERE, Italy (Feb. 14) - Olympic rookie Ted Ligety (Park City, UT) laid down two near-perfect slalom runs to win the gold medal in the Men's Combined Tuesday night in the Colle venue. Ligety won with a combined (downhill and two slalom runs) time of 3:09.35. Croatian Ivica Kostelic, a former world slalom champion, won the silver in 3:09.88 and Austrian Rainer Schoenfelder took bronze in 3:10.67. MORE

US FREESTYLE TEAM NEWS
Dawson Wins Bronze in Moguls SAUZE d'OULX, Italy (Feb. 15) - First-time Olympian Toby Dawson (Vail, CO) won bronze in moguls Wednesday night under the lights in Sauze d'Oulx. Jeremy Bloom (Loveland, CO) was sixth, Travis Mayer (Steamboat Springs, CO) was seventh and Travis Cabral (South Lake Tahoe, CA) finished ninth. Australian Dale Begg-Smith, who leads the World Cup moguls standings, won the gold and was followed by Finn Mikko Ronkainen who took silver. Dawson, currently fourth in World Cup points MORE

US 3rd & 3rd in Lake Placid Freestyle Battle
I'll admit it, I had Mogul Madness. The week after the competition in Deer Valley, I was with all the international FIS Freestyle Teams at another aerial and mogul competition. This time it was at Lake Placid. I really lucked out, I arranged accommodations at Ledge Rock at Whiteface which MORE

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