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Lake Tahoe resorts welcome spring with events and new snow
Submitted by Editor on Tue, 04/03/2012 - 10:29am
Spring is in the air at Lake Tahoe, and Heavenly Mountain Resort, Northstar California and Kirkwood Mountain Resort are gearing up for spring skiing and riding with concerts, competitions and new snow. The three resorts each received between 12-21 inches of snow since Saturday, March 31, and March snowfall totals range from 110-146 inches.
Kudos & Kindness: Heavenly, Vail went the extra mile for ski club event
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 03/27/2012 - 12:03pmHeavenly and Vail Resorts: Thank you for all you do for our local children. The Zephyr Cove Ski Club had a great year with 86 children participating. Our kids came from South Lake Tahoe, Stateline,...
Heavenly and Kirkwood extend the ski season
Submitted by Editor on Mon, 03/26/2012 - 9:54amOn the heels of the most powerful storm to hit the Lake Tahoe region this winter, Heavenly Mountain Resort and Kirkwood Mountain Resort have announced plans to extend their respective ski and snowboard seasons.
Kudos & Kindness: Vail Resorts' skiing day opened students' eyes to opportunities
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 03/22/2012 - 5:14pmMount Tallac High School staff and students would like to thank Mike Allen, Vail Resorts and all the incredible employees of Heavenly Ski Resort for a great day of riding and skiing. As part of a g...
Best of Lake Tahoe snowsports season coming up now; storms line up for weekend skiing
Submitted by Sam Bauman on Wed, 03/14/2012 - 4:04pm
OK, so it hasn't been the best snowsport season so far, but hold on, more snow is coming with storms over this weekend and we'll be able to ski off-piste without worrying about slightly hidden rock and logs. And on top of that, it's spring skiing, always the best of the year. Forget those crowds of December and January, don't recall those icy January days when the wind howled. It's spring skiing, lightly clad with plenty of sun for sitting on the lodge deck.
Restaurant, new lifts included in Kirkwood Master Plan
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 03/14/2012 - 6:00amVail Resorts' announcement late last month that it has agreed to purchase Kirkwood Mountain Resort inspired strong reactions from the ski area's passionate clientele.Some people thought the purc...
Restaurant, new lifts included in Kirkwood Master Plan
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 03/14/2012 - 6:00amVail Resorts' announcement late last month that it has agreed to purchase Kirkwood Mountain Resort inspired strong reactions from the ski area's passionate clientele.Some people thought the purc...
Restaurant, new lifts included in Kirkwood Master Plan
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 6:22pmVail Resorts' announcement late last month that it has agreed to purchase Kirkwood Mountain Resort inspired strong reactions from the ski area's passionate clientele.Some people thought the purc...
Restaurant, new lifts included in Kirkwood Master Plan
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 03/13/2012 - 6:22pmVail Resorts' announcement late last month that it has agreed to purchase Kirkwood Mountain Resort inspired strong reactions from the ski area's passionate clientele.Some people thought the purc...
Vail Daily columnist Warren Miller: Ski jumping in L.A.
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 10:57amSepp Benedicter was a famous Austrian ski instructor who for some reason spent a lot of years in Southern California converting sun worshippers to skiers.My first experience with him was watching h...
Vail announces 2012-2013 Tahoe season pass prices
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 9:52amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Vail Resorts announced pricing for ski and snowboard passes for the 2012-2013 winter season Monday. "Each of our Tahoe resorts offers a different type of skiing and ridin...
Vail announces 2012-2013 Tahoe season pass prices
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 9:52amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Vail Resorts announced pricing for ski and snowboard passes for the 2012-2013 winter season Monday."Each of our Tahoe resorts offers a different type of skiing and riding...
Vail Season Passes on Sale Today, Includes New Lake Tahoe Local Pass
Submitted by Editor on Mon, 03/12/2012 - 8:37amVail Resorts, Inc. ski and snowboard season passes for the 2012-2013 winter season go on sale today and feature the best prices in the industry.
Plenty of snow at Lake Tahoe for spring skiing, snowboarding
Submitted by Sam Bauman on Fri, 03/09/2012 - 7:49amIt's been a weird ski and riding season, for sure. One indication is that Heavenly Mountain Resort is only operating the Boulder base lodge and the Boulder and North Bowl lifts on weekends. In all the years I taught at Boulder never has had a shutdown like this. Too bad because lots of locals liked Boulder as out-of-towners didn't go there very often. Thus, parking was close and runs not crowded.
Vail Resorts posts 'modest declines' early in ski season
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 10:47amBROOMFIELD, Colorado - Given Mother Nature's stubborn refusal to provide snow during the first months of the ski season, it would be easy to assume Vail Resorts' CEO is tuning to the blues station ...
Drop in skier visits brings Vail Resorts revenue down
Submitted by admin on Tue, 03/06/2012 - 8:46amKirkwood Mountain Resort: Sale to finance development
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 4:21pmRENO, Nev. - Last week's sale of ski resort operations at Kirkwood Mountain Resort to Vail Resorts allows Kirkwood's former owners to focus on creating a world-class community in the Kirkwood Me...
Kirkwood Mountain Resort: Sale to finance development
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 4:21pmRENO, Nev. - Last week's sale of ski resort operations at Kirkwood Mountain Resort to Vail Resorts allows Kirkwood's former owners to focus on creating a world-class community in the Kirkwood Me...
Denver Post: Trio of Lake Tahoe investors covers all the bases
Submitted by Editor on Mon, 02/27/2012 - 10:22amThe trio of Colorado players investing in Lake Tahoe covers the spectrum of resort development and management.
East West Partners is a land developer. Vail Resorts is largely a lodger and resort operator. KSL Capital Partners is working in both operations and real estate.
Go here for the Denver Post story: Lake Tahoe's trio of Colorado investors covers all the bases.
Ski Area Reality: Corporatocracy Strikes Again
Submitted by Editor on Sat, 02/25/2012 - 12:07pmAs the news spread on Wednesday morning that Vail Resorts had purchased Kirkwood Mountain Resort, there was, naturally, a genuine concern for one the future of the one of the most iconic ski areas in the American West. As someone who made a personal decision a few years ago to stop supporting a corporate-owned ski resort (Heavenly) and start buying my pass at one of the last independent ski resorts in the Lake Tahoe area (Kirkwood) – the fact that Kirkwood is a better mountain for all the right reasons didn’t hurt either – this news affected me, but it did not shock me.
National group wants freeze on benefit pension plans for public workers
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 02/23/2012 - 6:00amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Vail Resorts Inc. announced today that it has agreed to buy Kirkwood Mountain Resort for about $18 million.According to a press release, Vail is purchasing the ski resort...
Skiers and industry officials react to Kirkwood purchase
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 5:46pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Add Kirkwood Mountain Resort to Vail Resorts' growing list of Lake Tahoe-area ski resorts.The Colorado-based company announced Wednesday it has agreed to buy Kirkwood ...
Skiers and industry officials react to Kirkwood purchase
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 5:46pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Add Kirkwood Mountain Resort to Vail Resorts' growing list of Lake Tahoe-area ski resorts.The Colorado-based company announced Wednesday it has agreed to buy Kirkwood ...
Vail Resorts to acquire Kirkwood Mountain Resort for about $18 million
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 2:17pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Vail Resorts Inc. announced today that it has agreed to buy Kirkwood Mountain Resort for about $18 million.According to a press release, Vail is purchasing the ski res...
Vail Resorts to acquire Kirkwood Mountain Resort for about $18 million
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 2:17pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Vail Resorts Inc. announced today that it has agreed to buy Kirkwood Mountain Resort for about $18 million.According to a press release, Vail is purchasing the ski res...
Vail Resorts to buy Kirkwood in $18 million deal
Submitted by Editor on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 9:06amVail Resorts, Inc. announced Wednesday that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Kirkwood Mountain Resort at Lake Tahoe, Calif., recognized by skiers and snowboarders as offering some of the best high alpine advanced terrain in North America.
Vail Resorts to acquire Kirkwood Mountain Resort for about $18 million
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 7:44amLAKE TAHOE - Vail Resorts is set to acquire Kirkwood Mountain Resort, located south of Lake Tahoe, for roughly $18 million, the Colorado-based company announced this morning.According to Vail, Heav...
Vail Resorts to acquire Kirkwood Mountain Resort for about $18 million
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 02/22/2012 - 7:44amLAKE TAHOE - Vail Resorts is set to acquire Kirkwood Mountain Resort, located south of Lake Tahoe, for roughly $18 million, the Colorado-based company announced this morning.According to Vail, Heav...
Lake Tahoe planning agency announces 2011 Best in The Basin award winners
Submitted by Editor on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 12:43pmRecognized for stewardship and care taken in the building and construction of developments around Lake Tahoe, the 22nd annual Best in the Basin awards were announced Tuesday by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.
The TRPA, which sets policy for development around Lake Tahoe, will recognize the winners, listed below, during the 2011 Best in the Basin awards presentation during the meeting of its Governing Board on Wednesday, Feb. 22 in Stateline. Go here for the agenda.
Despite snow woes, Vail Resorts prospering
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 10:18amEAGLE COUNTY - This is a down snow season just about everywhere in North America, but one analyst still has Vail Resorts on his "buy" list.Vail Resorts' stock closed at $44.35 per share Friday. Tha...
Despite snow woes, Vail Resorts prospering
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 02/06/2012 - 10:18amEAGLE COUNTY - This is a down snow season just about everywhere in North America, but one analyst still has Vail Resorts on his "buy" list.Vail Resorts' stock closed at $44.35 per share Friday. Tha...
Heavenly to Host Nike Winter Chosen Tour on Saturday
Submitted by Editor on Wed, 02/01/2012 - 12:09pm
Heavenly Mountain Resort has teamed up with Nike Snowboarding to host the fifth stop of the Nike Winter Chosen Tour on Saturday, February 4, 2012. The slopestyle rail jam will take place from 4:00-7:00 p.m. on World Cup run at the California Main Lodge.
Vail Daily columnist Warren Miller: Helps to be able to make your own snow
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 01/30/2012 - 10:41amBeing lucky is sometimes a lot better than being skillful. I have been very lucky for years because years ago, I decided to hang my skis on a mountain in Montana and move from the middle of the Col...
Heavenly and Northstar to open more terrain this weekend
Submitted by Editor on Fri, 01/27/2012 - 6:36pmWith last week's winter storms dropping nearly four feet of snow at Lake Tahoe's south shore, Heavenly Mountain Resort will open more trails and terrain beginning Saturday. Heavenly will open Galaxy Chairlift and the associated trails, Groove Terrain Park with six jumps and 18 creative features, and Lakeview Lodge, which is the final of Heavenly’s nine on-mountain restaurants to open.
Vail Resorts spending big bucks to reassure skiers there is snow
Submitted by admin on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 11:24pmVonn wins super G, Mancuso 5th
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 01/15/2012 - 11:46amBy USSA. CORTINA d'AMPEZZO, Italy — Lindsey Vonn of Vail dominated the Cortina super G to notch the 47th Audi FIS Alpine World Cup win of her career and launch ahead of Austrian great Renate Goets...
3 American woman in top 9 in downhill at Cortina
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 01/14/2012 - 10:34amBy USSA. CORTINA d'AMPEZZO, Italy — Lindsey Vonn of Vail fought gusting winds to finish second on the Olympia della Tofane downhill in Cortina today. Stacey Cook of Mammoth was sixth and Julia Man...
Tahoe ski resort heavyweights to advance Olympic chances
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 10:33pmCarrig, co-president of Vail's mountain division, brings to the Tahoe table his experience at The Canyons resort in Park City during the 2002 Winter Games at Salt Lake City and a steadfast investm...
Carrig, Wirth join Reno Tahoe Winter Games Coalition Board of Directors
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 9:55amAndy Wirth, president and CEO of Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows resorts, and Vail Resorts co-president Blaise T. Carrig have been elected to the Reno Tahoe Winter Games Coalition's Board of Direct...
Carrig, Wirth join Reno Tahoe Winter Games Coalition Board of Directors
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 01/12/2012 - 9:55amAndy Wirth, president and CEO of Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows resorts, and Vail Resorts co-president Blaise T. Carrig have been elected to the Reno Tahoe Winter Games Coalition's Board of Direct...
Grand Targhee offers free skiing
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 11:13amALTA, Wyo. - Grand Targhee Resort, located in Teton Valley, Wyo., and owned by the Gillett family of Vail, has been blessed with more than 11 1/2 feet of snowfall to date.Given that La Nina and thi...
Grand Targhee offers free skiing
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 11:13amALTA, Wyo. - Grand Targhee Resort, located in Teton Valley, Wyo., and owned by the Gillett family of Vail, has been blessed with more than 11 1/2 feet of snowfall to date.Given that La Nina and thi...
Skier visits down 15.3 percent at Vail Resorts
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 10:13amDENVER (AP) - With snowfall lagging, fewer skiers and snowboarders are hitting the slopes at Vail Resorts properties so far this season.The company said Friday that visits were down 15.3 percent co...
Skier visits down 15.3 percent at Vail Resorts
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 10:13amDENVER (AP) - With snowfall lagging, fewer skiers and snowboarders are hitting the slopes at Vail Resorts properties so far this season.The company said Friday that visits were down 15.3 percent co...
Shaun White's halfpipe open to public
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 01/09/2012 - 9:01amHaving an Olympic champion call your local ski resort home has its privileges. A 22-foot-high high, 500-foot-long halfpipe co-designed by snowboarder Shaun White was opened to the public last week near Truckee at Northstar California, one of Vail Resorts Inc.'s properties formerly called Northstar-at-Tahoe.
Skier visits to Vail Resorts down 15% so far
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 01/07/2012 - 2:35amWhile visits are down this season throughout the six Vail Resorts ski areas, the company is not downgrading its earning projections with three-quarters of the ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../skier-visits...
Heavenly kicks off new safety campaign
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 8:19amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - With National Safety Awareness Week kicking off next weekend, Heavenly Mountain Resort, along with all of Vail Resorts, is launching a new safety program."Safety of bo...
Heavenly kicks off new safety campaign
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 01/06/2012 - 8:19amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - With National Safety Awareness Week kicking off next weekend, Heavenly Mountain Resort, along with all of Vail Resorts, is launching a new safety program."Safety of bo...
Three cheers for Vail going for safety on the slopes
Submitted by Sam Bauman on Thu, 01/05/2012 - 11:07amThose of us who have spent most of our adult life on ski and snowboard slopes know how important it is to follow the rules on the slopes. From our earliest snow days we have followed the Skiers Responsibility Code, simple rules that make fun on the trail safer. If you don't know the Code, check it out next time you're at a mountain resort.
