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This Week's Focus: Celebrating Skiing and Snowboarding in All Their Forms
We're doing something a little bit different with this week's news. Upcoming events across North America focus on celebrating skiing and snowboarding in all their forms, and it dawned on us that too often, it's easy to forget why we're out in the mountains in the first place. These events are sure to remind you: becoming one with nature, perfecting your form, learning a new sport, pushing your personal limits, looking at the outdoors through a different perspective, finding peace and solitude, developing a sense of community and place. We hope you can attend one of the following events and rediscover why you are out in the mountains in winter.
Kootenay Coldsmoke Powder Fest Puts Spotlight on Backcountry Skiing and Riding
The Kootenay Coldsmoke Powder Fest in Nelson, B.C., is a grassroots gathering to celebrate deep snow, backcountry skiing and snowboarding. The event, set for Feb. 23–25, 2007, was created to promote the terrain, climate, magic, fun and knowledge of backcountry skiing and snowboarding.
Telemark skiers, alpine touring skiers and backcountry snowboarders meet at the base of Whitewater Winter Resort for a weekend of skiing, snowboarding, skinning, clinics, slide shows, movies and revelry. The event is designed for both experienced and debutant backcountry skiers and snowboarders. Proceeds will go to the Canadian Avalanche Centre, and will be used to help support the continued existence of vital public avalanche safety products and services.
Annual Bear Valley Telemark Festival Spreads Thrills of Modern Freeheel Skiing
The 11th Annual Bear Valley Telemark Festival, set for Feb. 9–11, 2007, celebrates the thrills of modern freeheel skiing through education, celebration and community. Tucked deep in the Sierras, the small alpine ski resort of Bear Valley will host three days of clinics, demos, banquets, races and live music. Skiing ability doesn't matter, this is the chance to experience what the freeheelers have been raving about for years.
Mountain Adventure Seminars (MAS), a year-round mountaineering school and guide service, founded the festival. The first MAS Telemark Festival was held in 1997 out of a rented house in Bear Valley. Fourteen people attended and three MAS telemark instructors were on hand to teach, clinic, cook, clean and entertain. The Bear Valley Telemark Festival hasn't slowed down and now is one of the premier telemark ski events in the country. About 300 freeheel skiers attend over the three days and most events sell out.
New England Telemark Festivals Share the Joy of Telemark Skiing and the Backcountry
New England Telemark will be back at two of its favorite ski resorts in February for its well-known telemark festivals. The Stowe Telemark Festival and Eastern Slopestyle Championships is set for Feb. 10, 2007. Sunday River, Maine, will host the Maine Telemark Festival and Eastern Mogul Championships on Feb. 24, 2007.
New England Telemark (NET) holds its festivals to grow the sport of telemark skiing, to educate the public in the joys of telemark and backcountry skiing and to expose telemark skiers to all the related products available. NET is a group of telemark instructors dedicated to the teaching of the telemark turn and is is the only PSIA certified "telemark only" ski school in the United States.
U.S. Ski Team Day at Resorts Nationwide Raises Funds to Support Promising Athletes
The U.S. Ski Team has announced the return of U.S. Ski Team Day, which will be held at participating ski areas around the country in efforts to raise funds and celebrate the kick-off of the 2007 Alpine World Championships. For each ticket sold on event day, one dollar will be donated by the host resorts to support and develop U.S. Ski Team programs for rising athletes. The official event day is Feb. 10, 2007, although some resorts are hosting the event on Feb. 9 (details on the event website).
"U.S. Ski Team Day 2007 will celebrate skiers' national passion," said Bill Marolt, U.S. Ski Team President and CEO. "We know that tomorrow's competitors are making turns today at ski areas and resorts across the country. Our gratitude goes out to our partner resorts for helping us groom the next generation of U.S. athletes."
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