FREE Skiing At Sugarbush on May 1

That’s right, Sugarbush is celebrating skiing in May this year by offering F R E E lift-served skiing on the mountain on Sunday, May 1. French fries, however, may still require that you break out a $20 bill… If you haven’t hung up your boards just yet, and feel like enjoying some really fun top [...]

Pray for Snow

Although there is some very fun skiing to be had across the northeast right now, including but by no means limited to a few lift-served spots at Sunday River, ME and Killington, VT, it’s exciting to think the approaching storm system could leave us with another round of snow for the weekend. Until then, a [...]

Maine’s Sugarloaf Expands Off-Piste Terrain

Maine’s Sugarloaf resort recently announced plans to begin thinning the heavily forested terrain on adjacent Burnt Mountain, thereby turning a relatively under-utilized backcountry skiing zone into marked and patrolled sidecountry. Sugarloaf plans to open some of this terrain this coming 2010-11 season, and phase two of the expansion calls for the addition of a snow-cat [...]

Bolton Valley Gets A Wind Turbine

Bolton Valley is now the first Vermont ski area to install its own wind turbine for generating electricity. The turbine, built and installed by the Barre, VT-based Northern Power Systems, is estimated to generate nearly ten percent of the ski area’s electricity needs, while reducing annual carbon emissions by nearly 300 tons. Here’s a brief [...]

AlpineZone =>Ski Area News for the Northeast

As we develop AdventureSkier.com through the 09-10 ski season, it will take us some time to develop a good system of reporting on the latest northeast ski area news.  Stay tuned for regular posts featuring news items that really stand out to us, but we would also like to encourage you to consider AlpineZone.com’s reporting [...]