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Park City, UT - On the eve of the Visa Freestyle International World Cup, Utah's Deer Valley Resort on Wednesday renamed its unique freestyle aerials tow lift “The Hurricane” in memory of the late Jeret “Speedy” Peterson. The tow is used to shuttle aerials athletes to the top of the jump for the annual International Ski Federation World Cup. The 2010 Olympic silver medalist in freestyle aerials, Peterson won two of his seven World Cups at Deer Valley including setting a world record...

Whitefish, MT - A Wisconsin-based atheist group has vowed a court fight after the U.S. Forest Service this week reversed an earlier decision to deny a permit for a plot of land upon which a statue of Jesus has sat for decades at Whitefish Mountain Resort. "The Freedom From Religion Foundation (FFRF) will be suing the U.S. Forest Service over the unconstitutional presence of a Knights of Columbus shrine to Jesus in Flathead National Forest in Montana," the group said in a statement released...

Richmond, UT - Plans for a small new ski resort in northern Utah's Cache Valley received a green light Thursday night from the Cache Valley Planning Commission. Proposed for development on private in Cherry Creek Canyon east of Richmond, near the Idaho border, the approval followed several months of contentious debate involving neighbors and the conservation group Bear River Watershed Council, both of which voiced concern regarding the effects that the proposed ski area is expected to...

Kalispell, MT - Following the resumption of search efforts on Thursday, the body of a missing Montana skier was found in the backcountry near Kalispell on Thursday, the Flathead County Sheriff's Office has confirmed. Mark Albee, 42, of Bigfork was skiing with his brother in the Jewel Basin area near Camp Misery east of Bigfork when the avalanche struck on Wednesday. Wet, sloppy conditions hampered rescue efforts and a low ceiling prevented air support to searchers. The victim's body was...

Park City, UT - Olympic moguls skiing champion Hannah Kearney stretched her record World Cup win streak to 13 with a victory Thursday night in the Putnam Investments Moguls at the Visa Freestyle International at Deer Valley Resort in Utah. Kearney's teammate Heather McPhie finished second with an impressive jumps package, while Canadian Mikael Kingsbury took the top spot for the men for his sixth consecutive win on the FIS Freestyle World Cup. "The pressure was on. I enjoyed it. It was...

Chamonix, France - U.S. ski racer Bode Miller came within a mere .01 seconds of victory in the first of two Audi FIS Alpine World Cup downhills in Chamonix on Friday as Klaus Kroell snagged the first Austrian speed win of the season. Swiss skier Didier Cuche finished third to snap a two-race win streak, but retained the World Cup downhill points lead. Erik Guay finished just off the podium in fourth as the Canadians put two men in the top 10. "'It's tough," said a clearly disappointed...

Portland, ME - The Downtown Showdown rail jam, scheduled for tomorrow in Portland, Maine's Monument Square, has been called off due to a lack of snow. Organizers including the City of Portland, and Maine's Sunday River and Sugarloaf ski resorts, say that the mixed precipitation and warm weather have stymied efforts to make enough snow to build the 35-foot hill necessary for the fourth annual staging of the...

Bend, OR - The Deschutes County Sheriff's Office in Bend has confirmed that a skier reported missing on Tuesday afternoon from Mt. Bachelor ski area was found later that night safely holed up in a nordic ski shelter. Daniel Gorman, 41, of Lynnwood, Wash., skied the southeast face of Mt. Bachelor with friends on Tuesday when he skied more than a mile and a half past Mt. Bachelor's boundary line. He was directed to the AC/DC Shelter in the Edison Butte Nordic area via two-way radio...

Kalispell, MT - Searchers this morning resumed their efforts to locate a backcountry skier swept away by an avalanche in northwestern Montana. The Flathead County Sheriff's Department, the Nordic Ski Patrol and Flathead County Search and Rescue members all headed to the Jewel Basin area in the Swan Range east of Bigfork near Kalispell on Thursday morning to search for the missing skier, one of two brothers who were skiing in the area on Wednesday when the slide struck. Search efforts...

Kirkwood, CA - The upcoming Subaru Freeskiing World Tour (FWT) event scheduled at California's Kikwood Mountain Resort for Feb. 22-27 will be postponed until Apr. 4-9 due to inadequate snow cover on The Cirque at Kirkwood, tour officials announced this afternoon. "The late arrival of winter in the Tahoe area forces us to wait for more snow accumulation on Kirkwood's steep, rocky terrain," said Event Director Bryan Barlow. "Unfortunately the late start has delayed our early season events, yet...

Angel Fire, NM -Competitors of all ages are once again waxing their snow shovels for the legendary Angel Fire Shovel Race Championship happening Feb. 11-12. The challenge is fairly simple. Competitors sit on the scoop of a standard aluminum snow shovel, handle pointed downhill, and then lift their hands and feet to allow gravity to take them for a ride down Angel Fire's slopes. Each rider gets two shots to clock the fastest time down the front of the Angel Fire ski mountain. Top speeds...

Huntsville, UT - In honor of the 10 year anniversary of the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games, Snowbasin Resort in Huntsville will be hosting a volunteer appreciation day on February 16th.  Snowbasin will offer a special $20.02 day lift ticket to ski or snowboard for those who wear their 2002 Winter Games Volunteer Coat or show their volunteer credentials.  People will also be meeting on Earl’s Plaza at 1 p.m. for a group photo. “Snowbasin has been looking forward to...

Lake Placid, NY - Current snow conditions, or more accurately a lack thereof, have forced the postponement of the 30th annual Lake Placid Loppet cross country ski race from this week to March 9-10. The Lake Placid Loppet has established itself as one of the best events of its kind in the country. Since 1981, thousands of skiers have enjoyed skiing and racing on the challenging Mt. Van Hoevenberg trails at the Olympic Sports Complex. In addition, the 32nd Empire State Winter Games...

Calgary (AB), Canada - Olympian Emily Cook, of Belmont, Mass., geared up for this week's VISA Freestyle International in Park City, Utah, with her fourth FIS Freestyle World Cup top-ten aerials finish in a row, taking seventh place on Sunday at the Canada Olympic Park in Calgary. Mengtao Xu of China was the women's winner, with Canada's Olivier Rochon taking the men's top spot for his second World Cup medal and his first gold. Extremely windy conditions and warm temperatures melting the...

Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany - Thick fog blanketed the Kandahar speed track in Garmisch-Partenkirchen forcing the jury to cancel the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup super G scheduled for Sunday. It was the second super G canceled in a week after the Kitzbuehel, Austria race was also scrapped due to weather. The men's World Cup tour moves to Chamonix, France for two downhills and a super combined. The Kitzbuehel race has been rescheduled by the International Ski Federation (FIS) for...

St. Moritz, Switzerland - American ski racer Lindsey Vonn came within just .03 seconds of a three-race sweep in St. Moritz to finish second in Sunday's super combined behind defending Audi FIS Alpine World Cup overall champion, and Vonn's former friend, Maria Hoefl-Riesch of Germany. Sunday's race race was a reschedule from a canceled December super combined in Val d'Isere, France. It was the first victory of the season for Hoefl-Riesch, the defending World Cup champion. Vonn, of...

Aspen, CO - Canadian skier Chris Del Bosco won his second Skier X title in three years at the Winter X Games in Aspen on Sunday and teammate Dave Duncan took bronze as Canada’s all-conquering ski cross team put on another show of strength. Filip Flisar, of Slovenia, was second. Del Bosco, who won gold at the X Games in 2010 and silver last year, was a dominant force from the quarter-finals on, as he used his full arsenal of slick passing moves and great technique to pick off his rivals on...

Aspen, CO - The 108,000 people who witnessed Winter X Games Aspen 2012 saw some amazing feats over the four days.  However those who stuck around for the final event Sunday night saw history in Snowboard SuperPipe. Shaun White - one of the most decorated X Games athletes in history - scored a perfect score of 100.00 on his final run to capture his fifth consecutive Snowboard SuperPipe gold. He is the first athlete to win five consecutive SuperPipe gold medals and is just the third athlete...

Aspen, CO - Coming into his second Winter X Games, Canadian rider Mark McMorris had zero gold medals. When he left Winter X Games Aspen 2012, he did so as a double gold medal winner after winning Snowboard Slopestyle on Saturday night to go along with his Big Air victory. "I didn't have any expectations coming in this year," the 18-year old from Regina, Saskatchewan said. "I just wanted to ride like I can and land my tricks. That is all I come out to contests to do is to have fun and try and...

Aspen, CO - Thanks to a bevy of tricks including a switch double cork 1440 and a switch double misty 1260, Bobby Brown took the top spot in Ski Big Air at Winter X Games Aspen 2012 on Saturday night. "It's all about consistency," Brown, of Breckenridge, Colo., said of his runs. "It's not about someone coming out with the gnarliest trick ever, it's just about laying it down when you need to.  I am just really stoked.  Everyone is at such a high level now no one person is that much further...