"Endless Winter Snow"

Sun Peaks Local Named to Canadian Alpine Ski Team Development Groupv Elli Terwiel from the Sun Peaks Alpine Club has been selected to be a part of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team Development Group for the second year in a row. Terwiel is one of fifteen high potential athletes that will be training with the Development Group after the announcement from Alpine Canada Alpin earlier this week.
“Making this team confirms that I am going in the right direction towards achieving my goals. It makes going to the 2010 Olympics a realistic goal—if I work extremely hard!” says Terwiel, who hopes to be racing in Europe most of next season.
Terwiel had a very successful 2007–2008 season, taking home the gold at the Pontiac GMC Cup competition at Sun Peaks Resort in February, followed by another gold medal performance at a Pontiac GMC Cup event in Ontario in March.
Sun Peaks Resort Corporation is proud to be a corporate sponsor for Terwiel. “It’s an honour to be able to support future Olympians like Elli and we are thrilled she has been named to the Canadian Alpine Ski Team Development Group again,” commented Anne Haight, Director of Marketing and Sales. “With the right encouragement these athletes can continue to grow and develop and work towards their dreams.”
Sun Peaks Resort continues to support the development of alpine sports in Canada and is pleased to host races such as the Pontiac GMC Cup.
The Canadian Alpine Ski Team Development Group is made up of six men and nine women, including several Coupe Pontiac GMC Cup champions. Summer training for the team includes intensive dryland training and many on-hill camps with the team.

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Valle Nevado
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Valle Nevado Resort Cam

Ski June, July, August, September and October 2008. Just 35 miles from Santiago's International airport, Valle Nevado ski resort is in the heart of the Andes offering more than twenty-three thousand acres of skiable terrain. Host to the World Cup of Snowboard again last year, packs all of the mountain, services and comforts you are accustomed to with high-speed detachable chairlift, a ski shop full of carving skis, top notch ski-pros that speak a dozen languages, helicopter skiing / riding, South America's only Super Half-Pipe, and access to three mountains back to back to back.

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Cathedral- Argentina
With more snow, Cathedral the center of more important ski of South America is put into operation and to few days of the winter debut, the hill Cathedral already counts on 40 centimeters of snow in the summit. In that lapse, the Cathedral will be scene of the launching of the National Celebration of the Snow, with slope of torches including, whenever the meteorological conditionses allow it. The 21 the third Vertical RACE will be developed from the low part to the top of the hill and the 28 of the current the average season begins. Between the new features, Cathedral presents/displays east winter the equipment of security in tracks, to prevent accidents and to take care of the irregularities that the skiers and snowbordistas realise in the tracks. In addition, it will be the first center of ski in you pass commercializing them through Internet, so that the lovers of the snow acquire his tickets from their house and they only must place happens in the country one and to begin to enjoy the mountain. It is possible to emphasize, that Cathedral commemorates east year, his 70 anniversary, remembering to the old pioneers who forged the history of the Argentine ski. As if all this outside little, Cathedral releases its access route: to the already well-known route, repavimentó, was placed signaling and is in perfect conditions. By all this, Bariloche and Cathedral begin to beat another successful winter season.

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