Falls Creek - Australia
A low pressure system in the southern Tasman sea will continue to move east. A high pressure system will move over Victoria today. Another cold front will cross Victoria late Sunday, followed by a high pressure system moving from the Bight to be southwest of Victoria on Monday and then reach the Tasman Sea on Tuesday.

Forecast: Saturday
Moderate west to southwesterly winds tending northwesterly during the morning. A fine and mostly sunny day.

Outlooks:
Sunday Fine. A mostly sunny day with freshening northwesterly winds. Monday Patchy rain tending to snow, then clearing later. Tuesday Fine.



With a mostly sunny day forcast get out and enjoy some great spring skiing. Don't forget to check out the terrain parks. Summit open from 7:30am to 4:00pm. Bungy tramp and Night tubing in the village bowl. Home trails open to the village. Fantastic XC skiing with 34 km of trails last groomed 30/08/07
www.fallscreek.com.au

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Jay Peak
Our Season Pass prices are set with both our bottom line, as well as the pockets of our guests, in mind. The two aren’t mutually exclusive, believe me. And, we get lots of fan mail from smarter-than-thou GM’s wondering why our prices, specifically our Triple Major College Pass, are set so low. Well, they don’t so much wonder as they whine about the disservice we’re doing to the collective core of mankind. $569 for an unrestricted Adult pass-good every day of the season. $269 for college kids gets you access to Jay Peak, Bolton Valley and, new this year, Mad River Glen. A midweek option at $319 and a few family passes. You won’t need the Rosetta Stone to sift through our Pass brochures or our website and you won’t need the better part of a week to look at restrictive mice-print; you’ll just need to adjust your expectations. Skiing and riding doesn’t have to be prohibitively expensive, period.
Both literal and figurative. Means that if the impetus behind your ski and snowboard vacation isn’t, actually, skiing and riding, you may want to head someplace else. How many resorts are in a position to say that? Not many. Hey, we have our share of pubs, eateries and quaint country stores (3, 3 and 1), but this place isn’t for midnight buffeters and those looking for pony rides. It’s for folks looking to challenge themselves at every level. We are who we are. We don’t have to be all things to all people. We're for those that get it. And we’re all the better for it. Rant off.
www.jaypeakresort.com




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Valais Tourism Switzerland
Valaisan Events

A brief selection of some of the events from the end of August until the end of October 2007:
06.07.-19.11.07 Exhibition "Chagall - between heaven and earth" in Martigny
15.08.-12.09.07 International Festival of Music in Sion
24.-26.08.07 The North Face Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc in Champex-Lac
26.08.07 3. Marathon of the Alps in Anzère-Crans-Montana-Leukerbad
01.09.07 3. "Cow pat" Festival on the Riederalp
05.-09.09.07 Medieval Festival (hold only every 4 years) in Saillon
06.-09.09.07 Omega European Masters in Crans-Montana
08.09.07 Gemmi Triathlon in Leukerbad
14.-15.09.07 "Tohu-Bohu" Music Festival in Veyras/Sierre
25.-27.10.07 International Rallye in Valais


www.matterhornstate.com



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Cardrona
Events
26-30 Aug
Cardrona Uni Snow Games 26-30 Aug Official University Games with Uni Sport NZ. Humorous, fun, and social event with some serious racing for uni students in their mid term break. Included are ski and snowboard GS, Slalom, boarder/skier X, slopestyle, and half pipe. Wanaka social progamme apre ski.
31 Aug - 1 Sept
Nokia Snowboard FIS World Cup 31 Aug - 1 Sept Cardrona Alpine Resort will be hosting the first ever Nokia Snowboard FIS World Cup in New Zealand. The event will be a male and female snowboard half pipe with $58,000 of prize money up for grabs.

Lifts 2 quad fixed chairlifts
1 quad express chairlift
3 magic learner lifts
1 platter beginner lift
Lift capacity 7800 ( Happy ) people per hour
Cardrona closes on 7 October 2007. ( SO Soon ? , say it ain't so !)
www.cardrona.com


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HEADS Up
This weekend many of your local sport and speciality WINTER SPORTS shops will be having Tent sales, Last years clearance blow it. And introductions of this years Goodies .

Worth a look the ADvanced All mtn ski called the HOT ROD. Into racing The "Red Sleds" are consistantly a sure thing to raise your adrenalin threshold to overdrive if you feel the NEED FOR SPEED.

On the west Coast, Ski Chalet in the Los Angles area and S. Cal have it going on and Any Mountian hosts the annual
This is a great time to look BEFORE The trade shows and Swaps. Near S.F. Gary of Helm In San Mateo www.helmsports.com tough to beat his prices. >> Let those boot warm up BEFORE Making a decision and best to try on later in the day because ( your feet swell as the day progresses.)

Bacardi

Ski Hood Meadows

Yellow will be Yellow no longer - not after new chairs (galvanized, not Yellow) are installed, the drive is replaced and the gear box rebuilt. It won't look, ride or operate like the old "Yellow" which was one of the original lifts. Got a name for the new lift? Get contest rules. The winning selection will receive a 10 Time Pass for the 40th anniversary season. (If an entry is submitted by more than one person, the first entry received will win the 10 Time Pass).

UPCOMING EVENTS
September 3:"65th Annual Roy Webster Columbia River Cross Channel Swim " Hood River
September 22:"Heritage Days" Mt. Hood Museum Government Camp
September 22-23:"Hood River Pear Celebration"
October 6:"Hood River Hops Fest"
October 19-21:"25th Annual Hood River Valley Harvest Fest "
October 21:"Hood River Season Pass Picture Taking Day " Hood River Inn
October 26-28: Seattle Ski Show Qwest Field Expo Center
November 2-4: Portland Ski ShowPortland Expo Center
November 4: Group Season Pass Deadline
November 16: Tentative Opening Date earlier if snow allows!


www.skihood.com

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Valle Nevado - Chile
With a team of more than 70 professionals, all instructors highly enabled in the most important centers of ski of the North hemisphere, the School of Snow-covered Valley Ski not only have become one of the best schools to teach nascent, but that he has transformed himself into a forced station for which they want to improve his level of ski. Thus the professor of the School of Ski Andrés Vásquez creates, that assures that "there are many people who feel that they are great skiers, but always is good for working to improve some technical aspects".

For it so much exists an ample supply directed to which wants to learn like a those that they want to raise to its level of ski or snowboard, by very good that this one is. "In this sport always they are changing the conditions, by as much perfecting itself is an imperative as much for nascent skiers as for the most advanced, including a the professors, even", assure Vásquez.
Shaun White - outstanding in the Xs Winter Games, where it has obtained eleven medals (seven of gold, three of silver and one of bronze), in addition to to have obtained Olympic gold for the United States in 2006. . And what another better place than Snow-covered Valley to receive it with the best snow!,... will appear the last week of August in the Made snow-white Valley tracks, where he will demonstrate so that he has become a world-wide star
www.vallenevado.com


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Squaw Valley
SAVE ON YOUR 2007/2008 WINTER SEASON PASS Why wait? Discount season passes are on sale through September 1. Orderhere on Endless Winter Snow or download your season pass. Simply send us your payment with your pass from
postmarked by Sept 1
and start thinking snow because winter is right around the corner!


Squaw Valley Lift Tickets & Lessons
Squaw's Shirley Lake Express Chair is being replaced this summer with a new state-of-the-art High Speed 6 pac. That's right, Squaw's most popular lift is improving with a new Dopplemayr CTEC 2007 Detachable Grip chair, upholding our reputation as having the best lift network in North America. ( Home to the Team Tie Dye BBQ crew)
SQUAW IS ALIVE WITH THE SOUND OF MUSIC!
Enjoy great outdoor concerts in the beauty of the High Sierra. Here's what is coming up in in August and September...

Sep. 1 - Mumbo Gumbo. A benefit concert for the Tahoe Forest Hospital Foundation 2-5pm. $20 advance

Join us in August for our famous Full Moon and Sunset Hikes from High Camp. Full Moon Dates: August 27-28

Sunset Hike are every Friday and Saturday evening.

Alex Remembered
www.squaw.com

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Mad River Glen
The new chairs have been delivered. All the forms for the concrete forms are ready. The Drive station and bull wheel have been installed. 2’3s of the towers are back from sandblasting and painting, looking shiny and new! Fabricators are making modifications to the refurbished towers in the parking lot. And the choppers will return around the 3rd week of August to fly concrete and the towers.
Beat the rush, it’s never to early to get your season pass.
Triple Major Pass

The new Triple Major Pass offers college skiers unlimited access to Jay Peak Resort, Bolton Valley and Mad River Glen for $269. Added to the course schedule for the 2007-2008 season is Mad River Glen, which teams up with Double Major upper classmen Jay Peak Resort and Bolton Valley Resort, to offer unlimited access to all three ski areas, all winter, for only $269. There are no restrictions at any of the mountainss, and the pass includes night skiing and riding at Bolton Valley Resort until 9pm. The pass price increases to $329 after Nov. 5th

Join Jay Appleton & his crew helping to maintain MRG's forest and epic woods skiing lines. The focus of today's work will be regen zone maintenance and a little cutting. Meet at 9 am in the Base Area at the Cricket Club picnic table. We're back down at 3:30 - 4 pm. Most of the time we hike from the base, so be prepared to hike. We always go, rain or shine. If it is raining, it is more of an adventure.
www.madriverglen.com/


Sun Peaks Summer

The Village Art Market
Go for a relaxing stroll in our quaint village setting, through an outdoor market, to see what unique gifts local businesses, artisans, and craftspeople are selling.

BCR presents Sound Vibrations This summer we host our first ever acoustic performance competition where musical acts compete on the Sun Peaks Concert Stage to see who will win Sound Vibrations. All musical acts must perform acoustically, but have the choice to perform solo or as a group.
www.sunpeaksresort.com



“One of 50 People To Know in Travel” The Times

Patrick always has some news for you !
Usually I summarize or extract key stories From Snow365.com
However, I want yo to take a look at his sites. Patrick and Rachel from day 1 of
Endlesswintersnow have consistantly added strenght and cooperation specificially
regarding Indoor slopes and Dry slopes.
Rather than taking a competitors position, Patrick and Snow365.com have always demonstrated "A "Bro Deal helping hand" .
Have a look and I will post his news and stories after the weekend.
snow365.com - indoor snow and artificial surface slope site.

While on the subject of Indoor slopes
It is not to early to Think about training
Hit the Dry slope Link on this pages right margin
In southern California near San Diego, Kent With Adventureski.com will get you ready
In northern California , ....have deck will travel,... Sam with endlesslope.com
San Francisco, Sacramento Will get you riding Quick !

Photo: Endless Slope
In the past,Sam and I have worked together as instructors at Sun 'n Ski sports when a store was located in Milpitas. If I finally decide on a date, I'm sure my attempt at Guinness World Record, First to ski at Badwater in death Valley will be on one of Sam's Decks
Start your season Now ! ski a deck


Summer FIS Racing
Event Nation Category
1.9.2007 La Parva CHI
2.9.2007 El Colorado CHI
4.-7.9.2007 Termas de Chillan CHI
5.-7.9.2007 Coronet Peak NZE
8.-14.9.2007 Termas de Chillan CHI
10.-16.9.2007 Chapelco ARG
10.9.2007 Mt Hutt NZE
11.-15.9.2007 Mt Hutt NZE
27.-28.10.2007 Sölden AUT WC GS GS


The 2007-2008 FIS Race schedule is now posted
Endless Winter News


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Lifts Open this Weekend

North America
Mt. Hood Timberline Lodge
Palmer Lift - race lanes upper - park lower
Timberlone Lodge

Europe
Stubai Glacier -Austria
Stubai Glacier

Hintertuxer Glacier -Austria
Hintertux Glacier

Tignes -France
Glacier open
Tignes

Engelberg-CH
Engelberg

Saas- Fee-CH
Saas- fee

Verbier-CH
Verbier

Zermat-CH


Zermatt



South America
Catedral

Catedral Patagonia

Las Lenas
Las Lenas

Portillo
Portillo

Valle Nevado
Valle Nevado



Australia
Falls Creek
Falls Creek

New Zealand
Cardrona
Cardrona

Coronet Peak
Coronet Peak

Treble Cone
Treble Cone

Air France

Air France

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